Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa (YCAB) is an independent non-profit social foundation started in August 1999. Founded out of concern for the increasing incidence of drug abuse amongst Indonesia’s youth, our main focus has been primary drug prevention in schools and communities.

As our programs developed, we began to see a clear link between poverty and drug abuse. Providing subsidized education and vocational training to out-of-school youth has become an important component of our primary prevention strategy and we have been successful in reducing the likelihood of involvement in high risk behaviour and drug using environments. The final step in our expansion has been to promote sustainable, income generating development programs in poor and disaster stricken areas of Indonesia that contribute to the improved health and livelihood of those communities.