A Volunteer Experience as An English Instructor: A Contribution to the Development of Madani Mental Health Care's English Affairs Division

According to the study on history of health nursing services, it is estimated that around 2-3% out of people in Indonesia suffer from severe mental illness. Half of them need hospital care, therefore the numbers lie on as many as 120 thousands of people who suffer from severe mental illness and must as well get serious treatment from a mental health institution. Madani Mental Health Care takes an active role in saving the nation and the young people from the dangers of misuse of Narcotics, Alcohol, and Addictive Substances and also directing the people with Schizophrenia in order to have a better quality of life. In this project, the author did a volunteer in the institution as an English instructor for its patients in addition to other tasks related to English affairs division. The underlying objective of Madani is to improve the life quality of patients in society, one of the ways is through providing English class. Although the current existed English class was unorganized in terms of learning curriculum, including materials and assessments, the author saw this as an opportunity for an improvement. To help Madani provide a better English class, this paper also explains about the strategy on how the project supposes to be conducted by using the principle in the Project Management. At last, after completing an analysis throughout the project, the author recommended Madani Mental Health Care should maintain the current modification of the class developed by the author.