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Bandung Newsletter May 2025

Every year, ISMILE Bandung center brings together the threads of children’s thinking, wonderings, and discoveries into one collective mosaic—a celebration we call Project Work.

Welcome to the May 2025 edition of our Bandung newsletter! We have lots of exciting updates and stories to share this month.​
A small hand lifted a tiny snail made of clay.
Another hand pointed —
“Look! No way, there’s still a hundred!”
A hundred what? Snails? Stories? Birds?
Our hands are ready —
to roll, to press, to shape, to cook. Clay will turn into trails.
Birds will flap into the sky.
Flamingos might dance on tiptoes. Snails will slide slowly, whispering secrets.
We invite you to enter our world —
where our hands tell stories,
where our cooking stirs imagination, where the quiet of the snail meets the songs of birds.
Let’s count. Let’s create. Let’s see if there really is…
a hundred, or maybe even more.
Nafas To Install Clean Air Zones in 7 iSmile Pre-School Campuses in Indonesia

As pollution in Jakarta and many other Indonesian cities continues to get worse, Nafas has been appointed as the air quality partner for iSmile Family of Schools in Indonesia and is tasked with bringing healthy air quality to 7 campuses in Permata Hijau, Menteng, Kelapa Gading, Pantai Indah Kapuk, P. Antasari (for Alam Atelier & BazGym) and Bandung. As part of the partnership, Nafas will be providing healthy air quality management, analytics & reporting as well as leading educational programs for parents across iSmile, iShine, Alam Atelier and BazGym  to continue to raise awareness about air pollution and public health.

Over 800 students attend iSmile Family of Schools, one of the top pre-schools in Jakarta, Bandung and Bali. The dedication of iSmile administration to providing the optimal learning environment for its students extends to ensuring that healthy indoor air quality levels are always maintained. 

For their schools that already have a Clean Air Zone, Nafas successfully reduced indoor air pollution by over 80% in classrooms at the Kelapa Gading campus in April 2024.  Unhealthy indoor air quality in schools provides a sub-optimal learning environment for children and long term exposure to PM2.5 reduces concentration, focus and can impair cognitive development. Nafas even published an article about this – The Smog Effect: How Air Quality Could Be Affecting Test Scores.

Clean Air Zones by Nafas are a subscription based B2B service which provides companies with air quality diagnostics, healthy air management, data analytics and real-time reporting of indoor pollution levels. The end to end service is the first of its kind in Indonesia, and already serves over 100 clients in offices, schools, small businesses and residential locations.

Interested to learn more about turning your business into a Clean Air Zone – click here. 

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