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Bandung Newsletter November 2024

Unity in Diversity | Celebrating Global Unity and Sustainable Development | ISMILE PRESCHOOL’S UNITED NATIONS DAY 2024 | A Joyful Harvest Festival

Welcome to the November 2024 edition of our Bandung newsletter! We have lots of exciting updates and stories to share this month.​
Unity in Diversity
Children’s Week Celebration
Written by Miss Wangi

In October 21–25, 2024, we celebrated Children’s Week with a joyful series of activities, offering our students a meaningful journey to explore kindness, diversity, and community. Children’s Week is a time to honor young learners while helping them understand values like empathy, respect, and cooperation.

We began the week with the theme “Kindness Begins With Me.” In a joyful gathering, teachers and children discussed the importance of kindness and shared ways to be caring toward others. The excitement grew as each child added their handprint to the canvas, transforming it into a beautiful symbol of their commitment to kindness. This colorful display marked the start of our charity initiative, encouraging our little ones to see how their actions can positively impact others.

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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