Hard Rock donates to learning farm for youths

The Jakarta Post, Mon, 03/30/2009 12:59 PM

CIANJUR: Hard Rock Cafe International has donated US$20,000 to the Learning Farm, an organization providing job training for youths.

The donation was handed over by Hard Rock Cafe International CEO Hamish Dodds, to the Farm's youth program adviser, Jiway Tung, at the farm at Maleber tea plantation in Cianjur, West Java.

"The donation was a result of our fund-raising programs like wristbands and CD sales. Our guests also chipped in," the cafe's general manager, Paulus Panggabean, said.

The Learning Farm was established in 2005 to help school dropouts, street kids and the unemployed gain vocational skills.

Jiway said the farm would use the donation to buy land, because it still had to borrowed property from the Medco Foundation.