About Us I The History...
A Brief History Of Children’s Media Centre Children's Media Centre (CMC) was established on February 10, 2005, and registered officially on the government at June 15, 2005, by the Notary No. 16, Ernalita SH. CMC initiated by a group of young people and NGO activists who previously joint as Volunteer in the Food Distribution Program for the earthquake and tsunami disaster victims in Aceh. CMC was born with post earthquake and tsunami disaster issue as the background, especially the situation of orphaned and children living at temporary shelter who do not get special carrying during the early post-disaster. With limited resources, CMC running the first program with title "Return the smile on the face of Aceh children", through some activities done directly in the temporary shelter and children dormitory with the aim to be friends of children through singing, music, drawing, storytelling, and writing as activity, all these activities run with group based. Since early 2007 CMC start to focus on children in past armed conflict area issue, most of the CMC's staff come from the past armed conflict area and clearly understand on situation of children living in the past armed conflict area. Peace Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between The Government of the Republic Indonesia with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has opened the entry point for Civil Society including NGOs to perform humanitarian work into the past conflict areas, and CMC began doing humanitarian work in East Aceh District. During the last seven years CMC has build the cooperation with some donors and other international organizations at domestic and International level, like: • • • • • • •
LOGICA2 (2013-2014) terre des hommes, tdh-Germany (2005-2013), American Friends Service Committee, AFSC Indonesia (2005-2012), Plan International (2007-2008) UNICEF Indonesia (2006-2007), APF, Aceh People's Forum (2006-2007), OSI, the Open Society Institute (2006-2007) Collaborative Program Between CMC and International INSIGHT Out! Project Team.