Growing up near the coast, Mr. Sejaya watched others farming seaweed and dreamed of having his own plot and stretch of sea for farming. Yet, he didn’t have the funds to start, and he needed to finish school first.

Rare to find village governments focused on early childhood education, and even rarer to see them investing in it. But, Punagaya Village do different thing. They make biggest change in education sector.

Mrs. Riska, one of the local seaweed farmers in Bontoranum village, has been growing seaweed with her husband since their marriage in 2018. When they started, they had nothing.