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Hello :) I will start to write this first before the details of the programs.
I would like to begin by sharing that I am frequently invited by universities and higher education institutions to participate in inspirational sessions with students.
Recently, one university extended an invitation for a program aimed at sharing knowledge and inspiration with their students in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The theme of the session will be related to Family Law or Law and Family.
The university has kindly requested assistance in identifying an individual with a doctoral degree (PhD) in a relevant field who would be willing to share their knowledge and experience with the students.
The event is planned to be conducted offline in Makassar between approximately 2–14 July 2026.
Should anyone be interested and available, I would be grateful if you could kindly contact me through this profile.
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I will continue by sharing more about my profile in the following:
I am Mazra Yasir. Together with my husband, Ashar, and our daughter, Anne, we are a family dedicated to education and community development.
We run a kindergarten, educational courses, and a variety of community engagement programs in Belopa, Luwu, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Below are some of the programs in which we welcome volunteers to contribute and support our initiatives:
Programs & Volunteer Opportunities
Our educational and community programs include:
* Kindergarten English learning stimulation through play-based activities
* Beginner-level English classes
* English conversation classes
* Literacy and public discussion programs
* Environmental awareness and care campaigns
* Parenting classes for parents at school and within the local community
* Educational volunteer camps including short teaching programs in remote mountain areas to encourage children about the importance of education and future opportunities
…and many other meaningful community initiatives.
Volunteer Roles
We warmly welcome volunteers who are interested in teaching English and participating in inspirational educational activities for our approximately 60 kindergarten students.
In addition, we run educational community classes four days per week for around 30 registered participants from the local community, including children, teenagers, high school students, and parents.
Depending on your interests, experience, and preferences, volunteers may assist with or lead selected activities and classes. We highly value individuals with expertise in areas such as education, psychology, social work, environmental awareness, community development, and related fields.
If you have a particular background or area of expertise, we would be delighted to collaborate in developing lesson plans, discussions, workshops, or community activities based on your knowledge and interests. Volunteers may also have the opportunity to lead or support public discussions with adult community members and students.
Community & Charity Programs
Beyond education, we also organize charity and social support initiatives aimed at helping members of the local community living in poverty, particularly disadvantaged children and elderly individuals.
These initiatives include support for healthcare access, food assistance, home-building projects, and other basic community needs. Through collaboration and compassion, we hope to create meaningful and lasting impact together.
Cultural Immersion Experience
Volunteers will have the opportunity to fully experience local life and culture in a small town in Sulawesi. You will live alongside local families, interact closely with adults and children in the community, and gain valuable insight into local traditions and daily life.
You may also enjoy activities such as sports with local residents, swimming in rivers, exploring nature, and experiencing village life in meaningful ways.
Weekend Activities
During weekends, we often visit beautiful natural areas and attend local cultural activities such as traditional wedding ceremonies, beaches, rivers, hiking areas, and nearby cultural destinations including Bastem, Latimojong, and the well-known Toraja region, where volunteers can further explore local culture and nature.
Accommodation & Meals
We provide three meals per day and are happy to accommodate dietary preferences whenever possible.
Typical meals may include:
Breakfast: bread, eggs, fruit, cakes, tea, or coffee
Lunch: local dishes such as rice, vegetables, fish or chicken, tofu, tempeh, and eggs
Dinner: vegetables, rice, fruit, gado-gado, or other local meals
We especially enjoy cooking and eating together as a family and would be very happy to share this experience with volunteers.
Vegetarian volunteers are very welcome, as vegetables are easily available and we also maintain a garden where volunteers are welcome to participate in planting and gardening activities. Our kitchen is open and available at all times.
Respect for Local Culture
We deeply appreciate open-minded, respectful, and culturally sensitive volunteers.
As part of respecting local customs and school values, we kindly ask volunteers to dress modestly while at school or attending community events (for example: T-shirts with long skirts or long pants). We are always open to respectful discussion and cultural exchange regarding local customs and perspectives.
We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and sincerely hope to build mutual understanding, friendship, and meaningful collaboration.
Volunteer Preferences
Although we generally prefer female volunteers due to the nature of some activities and accommodation arrangements, we are also open to hosting male volunteers and families.
We highly value open communication and are happy to discuss personal preferences, expectations, and boundaries to help avoid misunderstandings. We hope volunteers will feel not only like guests, but as part of our school and community family.
We especially welcome volunteers with backgrounds in:
Psychology
Education
Community development
Women’s empowerment and social advocacy
Those who feel comfortable contributing to parenting or educational seminars would be greatly appreciated.
Travel Information
Our home and school are located in Belopa, Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, approximately 6–7 hours from Makassar International Airport by bus. The transportation is generally comfortable, and we will gladly assist and welcome volunteers upon arrival in Belopa.
Teaching in Remote Mountain Areas
We have also initiated educational volunteer programs in remote mountain regions of Bastem and Latimojong, Luwu.
From Belopa, reaching these locations takes approximately 4–6 hours by jeep due to challenging road conditions. Volunteers occasionally join short teaching visits (approximately 2–3 days) to support children in remote schools.
Weekly Activities Schedule
Monday – Thursday
A. Kindergarten Program: 08:00 AM – 12:00 PM
B. English for Kids Program: 04:00 PM – 06:00 PM
Friday
Community service, charity activities, or visits to schools and partner institutions.
Saturday
Play-based and fun educational activities for kindergarten students (08:00 AM – 12:00 PM), and/or participation in our educational volunteer programs in remote mountain areas (depending on scheduling).
Sunday
Holiday / Rest Day
If you would like further information, please feel free to contact us. We would be very happy to answer any questions and provide additional details.
Thank you for your interest.
With warm regards,
Mazra Yasir
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Creative DIY projects
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Interests
Charity work
Writing
Nature
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Our volunteers will learn about our culture and way of life in Belopa, Sulawesi in Indonesia. They will live with me and my family in our village, and will be warmly welcomed into our community. We hope they will also learn some life lessons or wisdom from the hard life of the poor people whom we helpeld.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We need volunteers to teach English in our English Classes. We are looking for open minded and kind volunteers who are interested in sharing knowledge and stories. We would love to learn about your culture and teach you about our culture as well. Our volunteers can also help with the charity programs that we run to support the disadvantaged members of our community.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Indonesian: Fluent
Arabic: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
We provide accommodation, kitchen and bathroom access for all of our volunteers. We also provide:
1). Pick-up Transportation (car and bus) from Bua Airport to Belopa, and from Belopa to Bua Airport. If you have a bag over 10kg you can take the bus from Makassar, and we will pick you up in the drop off point of Belopa
2). Room (including bed, pillow, fan, saroong, and cupboard)
Female volunteers will stay in an air conditioned room inside the house, while male volunteers stay in a fanned room attached to the outside of the house.
3). Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) 3 times every day + snacks+coffee/tea.
4). Transportation to local nature tourism sites
5). Transportation to charity projects
6). Clean drinking water
7). Internet hotspot
What else ...
We really need interesting, open-minded and honest volunteers.
We also run charity initiatives, where we help poor and sick kids and their families. We help them get health care access and obtain their primary needs such as food and shelter.
We'll visit some local nature-tourism sites in the weekend, such as the town of Toraja and Sarasa Waterfall.
On our time off we also do some environmental action activities such as: waste recycling, reusing/upcycling, and a trash cleaning project. We will also spend our time together in the trendy local cafes, or playing card games while discussing a variety of interesting topics.
Thank you :)
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
For this virtual learning, we can host the volunteer in English teaching by using whatsapp, facebook messenger call, or google meet application.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Ceci
A stray cat was abandoned by someone, and we’re now taking care of it.
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I would like to begin by sharing our experience before Jess came to the kindergarten in Belopa. At that time, we were participating in an English virtual class with the Universal Schooling Community. Even though the class was online, it felt as if we had known each other for a long time.
Jess showed great discipline… read more
First ahead: The communication with Mazra was smooth and uncomplicated. She helped me with the organisation of my visa extension, which is possible in Palopo (one hour by car from Belopa). I can recommend extending a visa there, it was very easy.
She… read more
Thank you so much dear for spending almost 2 months with us in this small school. I can always only thank you for your love, time, energy, and kindness in coming to this small city. We are grateful since there is not much we can give except the experience of being with children with all the beauty of feeling meaningful as human beings.… read more
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I would like to begin by sharing our experience before Jess came to the kindergarten in Belopa. At that time, we were participating in an English virtual class with the Universal Schooling Community. Even though the class was online, it felt as if we had known each other for a long time.
Jess showed great discipline… read more
First ahead: The communication with Mazra was smooth and uncomplicated. She helped me with the organisation of my visa extension, which is possible in Palopo (one hour by car from Belopa). I can recommend extending a visa there, it was very easy.
She… read more
Thank you so much dear for spending almost 2 months with us in this small school. I can always only thank you for your love, time, energy, and kindness in coming to this small city. We are grateful since there is not much we can give except the experience of being with children with all the beauty of feeling meaningful as human beings.… read more
Wanna share the great experience we had with Kai & Nishi when they were in Belopa and helped us teach in the kindergarten and the English classes. It was a great opportunity for the children to play and learn with them. A great bonding has given another strength and new inspiration for the children and our kindergarten… read more
The kindergarten itself was an enchanting space filled with laughter, curiosity,… read more
There is a phrase of a Thank You to express our gratitude, but for you both, Thank You is even don't enough to describe how lucky we are to have an opportunity to know you and to enjoy every single Activities together when you were here. I would express it with amazing relationship that everyone's built, the strong Positive… read more
I absolutely loved staying with Mazra and her family in Belopa, Sulawesi. I had one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Mazra and her family go… read more
A thank you even not enough to appreciate your kindness and how great your positive energy when you were here. We worked together to prepare everything for the class, for our dinner and for other things, those are would be longing in our heart and memory.
The whole learning tools you have made are really useful for the children who… read more
I want to say sorry for being late in giving feedback, but I had a lot of work to do with the next year studies in Madrid.
First, I want to say thanks for giving me the chance to join in your fantastic family and take part in your school program, it was one of the most enriching experiences that I had lived in my life.
Despite that… read more
Thank you so much for everything that inspired the children and the teachers during these 2 months. It was an experience that we will never forget and we've met a volunteer but family that we will never forget. For the children, Ashar, Me, Vicky, Anne and all teachers was feeling really had to cry when your were leaving . It felt like… read more
First of all, everything from the beginning was really… read more
We had a great time with Paula, and really appreciate all the things she helped accomplished, everything well and carefully done. Paula is a really kind one, she blended in perfectly with the family, the children, and my friends in the community. She likes to talk about her feeling, her experiences, including her skill in Belly Dance. She… read more
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How can I start, while it just started and will never be finished. Because we had much intens great works and discussion with much ideas flowed like water.
There are few words to desribe about this beautiful couple; Generous, Creative, Genuine, Diligent, Inovative, Passionate, Hard Worker, Positive, Open Minded,… read more
Let me introduce my adventure and experience in Mazra’s project and family ! I will try not to be too long (not as my first contact, I’m sure you still remember it Mazra :D ). Well, so ! I stayed with Mazra’s family during 2 months, April and May 2019. These two months were won-der-full… read more
Staying with us for 2 months with a huge patience in our living culture, teaching the children in kindergarten, in english class, and also in the living as a family.
A lot pleasure to inform what Justine had contributed to our school and the family, for sure she will be our forever inspiration.
# Kindergarten Teacher
She helped… read more
She was staying with us for a month in our school. We spent our time to teach English in 2 different classes of students and also helping us to take care of one of our special kid. When she was helping, she was a responsible one and really nice girl.
Our project for the environment was going to 2 different big schools to campaign the… read more
Since our arrival (in the middle of the night!) we felt very welcomed from her and her family! They always cared of us, making sure we would always feel comfortable and not out of place...!
My kids had a lot of fun, they were playing all day long with the… read more
Thank you so much for everything that you gave us and teached us during last month. It was an experience that we will never forget and we've met people that we will never forget. For me (Nina) it was the first time that I really had to cry when leaving a place during our travels. It felt like we left our new family.
It… read more
Nina and Pim stayed for a month with us in Belopa, we spent a lots qualified disscussion about education, children, cultures, psychology, and even about live in general, which was really really super nice.
The most unforgetable moment with this beautiful couple was about their genuine kind to addapt… read more
One of the best moment with her was spending our time together and disscussed about… read more
The way she involved with those activities were… read more
Will always be remember the most… read more
Totally open minded and easy going, we never found any negative feelings about her. If you are keen to make a change about the environment, Eva is the person who gives the best dedication and contribution for the environment. We talked a lot about how important the people can… read more
Teaching english to the children and the women from the community has been a lot of fun and Mazra also took us on many… read more
As a host, I can't describe how much I thank for their kindness and… read more
You are so nice and great energy to share, and of course it always be in our list as an… read more
We had an amazin experience. Mazra and her family are so kind and helpfull. We teached english in the kindergarten and the older kids, and helped with the adult classes. I also had the oppurtunity to speak on a seminar which Mazra organised. This was a great experience! We… read more
Mazra is a really sweet, beautiful and smart women and a hard worker. She is really good in organising… read more
His commitment to a healthy lifestyle has given… read more
One of the volunteer that I truly save her name in our heart, her keen to find a true goal of life was so interesting. After classes we always have a great time to discuss lots of things about life and the life in the next future.
Before the class begin, she will prepare her time to discuss about an interesting lesson to the kids,… read more
I will try to take you on this amazing journey I had in the school
Not sure what I had to expect when coming to Belopa.
I arrived after a long busdrive of 8 hours (that has quite comfortable seats to sleep in) in Belopa, Mazra was so kind to pick me up at 6 am.
We briefly talked and she… read more
A very short conversation that we had, but it was great. Thank you for your visiting and all the inspiration.
All warmest regards,
Mazra
This Workaway will give you an immersive experience with some incredibly kind and lovely people. It was… read more
I need to thank for your coming, you brought much much happiness and love to those children, you know dear ? They're asking about you almost everyday "di mana Miss Rasy?"
I read all of your writing, oh dear you made me drop some tears, it was so beautiful.
Rasy and Henry always have a positive energy, its so easy to… read more
Even "Thank You" isn't enough to describe my… read more
The first time he called me and told me about his profession as an Actor, i had a curiosity about him, we are so worried about his stay in this small place, i tough it will be so hard for him to adapt with the simple living of us here. But i was wrong. He was so easy to accept our cultures and event our simple way of living.
Even he is… read more
My purpose was to teach and help children and people in the community. However it actually turned out that I’ve learned more than I’ve taught in many ways.
Mazra told me the first day I arrived to tell her whatever I felt or… read more
You helped a poor old woman and worked in 3 gardens, such a great help as a human… read more
Yes, what I thought in mind about her, it was absolutely true even more… read more
Her family and friends are all extremely kind and welcoming and keen to learn English and about the customs of your country (especially… read more
We miss her and her… read more
Love much much much
Mazra
