Yune’s passion is children’s education and welfare. In the last 15 years, she worked with children in big cities and helped them with extra school lessons and skills, especially in the STEAM framework (Science, Technology, Environment, Arts, and Math).

She joined Nexus3 in 2018 to further develop a new program, called CHIME, Children’s Health Interventions in Mercury-polluted Environment. The new program aims to help children, parents, teachers, and health workers in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) communities to cope with mercury impact on their health.

With the Nexus3 team, Yune developed several toolkits and modules that can be used in ASGM communities. She developed a rapid participatory toolkit to assess the health condition of children in ASGM communities, establish a program for teachers to understand how to deal with children with special needs and with specific health problems and plan for health workers to identify the symptoms of mercury poisoning and how to respond.

Additionally, she also facilitates a program for mothers, parents, and youth group to find alternative economic activities and move away from mercury and gold mining. She was driven to promote the ecological rights of the child and support sustainable livelihood for communities in mercury hotspots.

In February, Yune led the Nexus3 team to promote the CHIME program in Kenya and Ethiopia, followed by organizing a workshop for NGO partners from Kenya and Tanzania. Globally, UNEP identifies ASGM practices in 77 countries. Nexus3 aims to expand the CHIME program globally.

Yune holds a Magister Management in Finance from Pajajaran University and Bachelor degree in Socio-Economic of Agriculture from Universitas Pembangunan “Veteran” Yogyakarta. She envisioned to see children who live in ASGM communities have a better future, and their parents have a sustainable livelihood.