YSEALI Spring 2017 - Gloria Morgen:

Gloria Photo
Participant Name: Gloria Marcella Morgen Wiria
Project Location: Palembang, Indonesia
Program: Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI)
Term: Spring 2017
Project Title: Gloria Morgen Show
UConn GTDI Project Award: Application Accepted & Funding Awarded

Gloria Morgen is an Indonesian writer, with six published books, and social entrepreneur. She initiated Glow for Indonesia as a platform to empowering youth to towards middle lower class in Indonesia. She has won various social entrepreneurship competitions, has been a delegate at various conferences, gained national and international awards, received an official invitation to the Indonesian State Palace, delivered a speech at The National Youth Congress 2016 at the People’s Consultative Assembly-Indonesia (MPR-RI). Gloria built a social organization, Glow for Indonesia (www.glowforindonesia.org) consisting of more than 500 active members. Together with her friends, they empowered Cimenyan Villagers on breeding and processing catfish into crackers, abon, pecel lele. They also focus to increase the awareness of youth about protecting the environment.

Five-Year Project Goals:

  • To build a legal social entrepreneurship that provides contents through apps like Netflix

Organization Information: Gloria Morgen Show

Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo37t6b48-SLmQePjRuvpLg/featured

The level of literacy of Indonesian society is very bad. Indonesia ranks 60th out of a total of 61 countries. Indonesian's on average read around 27 pages of a book a year. Gloria Morgen Show encourages people to read more, but they also know that they cannot push everyone to read books because everyone has their own way of learn. Books are the source of knowledge and information, but in this era, people can get knowledge from anywhere not just from books. Due to the high viewer traffic on YouTube, especially millennial's, the Gloria Morgen show tries to bring the content of books into YouTube videos. The show interviewed over  60 inspiring people like the Director of World Bank, Vice President Samsung Indonesia, CEO of Haagen Dazs Indonesia, and  CEO of LRT Jakarta.