When Roshan’s collaboration with Elite Open School started in August 2019, Faiza was part of our first cohort of students. Her journey has been nothing short of inspiring.

In 2019, Roshan launched our Paving Access to Higher Education (PATH) initiative. By forming partnerships with Sampoerna University and providing various forms of support to candidates, our initiative seeks to facilitate the enrollment and success of refugees in university while they wait for resettlement.

In line with our efforts to create a safe, healing and learning environment, Roshan has been working to integrate Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) into our curriculum and teaching. SEL involves the development of emotional self-regulation, positive relationship-building, goal-setting, and encouraging other healthy behaviors. We believe that SEL will better equip our students to deal with life’s challenges, helping them to heal and become more resilient.

As a Roshan Roast apprentice, Mustafa is developing his professional skills as he manages the day-to-day operations, sales, and marketing of Roshan Roast through both online and offline channels. He is also finding his network growing as he meets and works with people from different cultural and vocational backgrounds.

A dream so far away it once seemed impossible to achieve. Many refugees in Indonesia have been isolated from formal education for many long years, but 40 students now have the opportunity to earn their General Education Diploma (GED), a certificate equivalent to a U.S. high school diploma through Roshan’s GED Support Program.

Being a woman comes with gifts, but also challenges, especially if one is living with many limitations. Early on, many refugee girls at Roshan had regular classes but socializing, sports, and other activities were nonexistent for most of them. The Roshan “Girls Gang” (GG) was created by young girls and women at Roshan as a safe environment to combat isolation, support one another, build trusting friendships, and develop leadership skills.