East Bali Poverty Project
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Mission Statement
Vision: That every child in rural Indonesia has access to good healthcare, nutrition, education, clean water, sanitation and opportunities to achieve his/her full potential and empower others Mission: To create sustainable solutions to poverty in rural Indonesia mountain villages, prioritizing the health, nutrition and education of children.
About This Cause
The East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) is a non-profit organisation established in 1998 by a British resident of Bali after an appeal for help by an isolated 7,200Ha mountain village, forgotten by time and progress. Participatory community surveys in 1998 with 1,056 of the 3,000 families in 19 sub-villages revealed thousands of people living in abject poverty without water, sanitation, roads, schools, health facilities and electricity. Illiteracy was up to 100%. Malnutrition and iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) were endemic, iodine being the essential nutrient for healthy child births, brain and body development. When interviewed in November 1998 to determine their priorities if EBPP could help, over 1,000 families requested children's education as a foundation for a better future. An inspiring and productive collaboration then began with the most disadvantaged communities. From education as a foundation, followed by comprehensive health outreach, safe water and sanitation facilities we have grown and are running various environmental initiatives that harness human and natural resources for mutual benefit to improve living ecosystems, provide sustainable food sources for thousands of people, provide sustainable livelihoods for the present and future, and ensure the preservation of the local environment and ecosystems. With the philosophy of “helping people to help themselves”, all programmes are designed as models that can be replicated, and executed by local people who directly transfer knowledge and appropriate technology within their communities. Key Programmes and Achievements: a) Integrated Children’s Education Since the launch of our first integrated education programme in Bunga in August 1999, EBPP has established and still runs 6 schools in the remote hamlets of Bunga (1999), Cegi (2000), Pengalusan (2000), Manikaji (2001), Jatituhu (2005) and Darmaji (2007) All schools run programmes from elementary through to senior high school.More than 1,160 children educated: 375 have graduated elementary school, 186Junior high school and 77 children have graduated senior high school by 2019. Some have continued to university and vocational training course on scholarships or self-funded. b) Extra-Curricular Youth Empowerment • Youth Empowerment Extra-Curricular Courses since July 2015: A series of carefully structured and expertly designed programmes to empower our junior and senior high school students in all 6 EBPP schools to become ‘Agents of Change’ by developing additional skills in health outreach, nutrition, reproductive health, financial & computer literacy, gender equality, bamboo handicraft and becoming community based advocacy champions to lead their communities towards much healthier, stronger and more sustainable futures. c) Sustainable Community Health Outreach • Capacity building for 27 Posyandu (monthly mother-infant health posts for immunisations, nutrition & general health)) in Ban & 21 Posyandu in adjacent Tianyar Timur village, annually serving >1,100 mothers&>1,500 infants with key goals to educate mothers and eliminate malnutrition, providing nutritious food & Ades mineral water • Improve infant and maternal morbidity and mortality outcomes through improved pre-natal education, medical evaluation, nutritional standards/supplementation, birth planning, hygiene, sanitation, home/environmental safety, and basic child development • Health improvement/interventions: cleft lips & palate, cataract & eye operations, paralyzed and disabled children & adult treatment, TBC, nutrition, etc. • Ear Nose & Throat [ENT] examinations for children in 51 schools & their communities since 2011 for more than 8,000 children & adults. • Outreach dental health examinations and intervention:>30,000 children from 51 schools in 4 villages treated since 2001. Since 2006, provided annual dental/oral hygiene education & treatment annually to approx. 4,000 children 5-18 years in 51 East Bali schools • Providing Nazava water filters for clean & safe drinking water 2012-2013& 2017-2019 for >7,500 children in 51 schools: 183 units of Nazava water filter for 300 children in all 6 EBPP schools and another more than 7,300 children in 45 government schools in 4 villages. PLUS families of disabled and malnourished children. d) WASH: Water, Sanitation & Hygiene • Safe water supply & education for >2,000 families: Safe water from 3 mountain springs developed serving over 1500 families, 855 appropriate technology bamboo-cement rainwater collection reservoirs have been built serving >4,000 people and rehabilitate existing artesian wells in dry riverbed benefiting 352 families • 1,074 toilet/bathroom blocks benefitting 1,260 families in 11 of our 19 hamlets. The first toilets in history in this village to minimize open defecation practice & improve hygiene by daily bathing & enables families to do laundry daily in their inclusive bathrooms e) Bamboo Reforestation & Social & Economic Development • Bamboo for reforestation, environmental protection & sustainable community economic development: bamboo reforestation of more than 200Ha with 80,000 bamboo seedlings planted, owned by the communities and designed to bring back ecosystems and sustainable community livelihoods • Bamboo Field School: Professional training for EBPP high school graduates and local farmers to learn every aspects of growing, maintaining, harvesting, treating and managing bamboo for sustainable social and economic development. f) Social Business Development • Bamboo Bikes Development as Social Enterprises: In 2016, EBPP launched “East Bali Bamboo Bikes” www.eastbalibamboobikes.comas a social enterprise to create a sustainable bamboo business for and by the local communities, by harnessing human and natural local resources to benefit the isolated and impoverished communities of Desa Ban in East Bali, to create employment for our youth and promote sustainable social and economic development. g) Dirt road improvement facilitating access for over 3,500 families: More than 25km since 1999 linking 19 previously isolated hamlets to the outside world h) Sustainable organic farming in 6 EBPP schools& community farming group i) Bali Volcano (Mount Agung) crisis response: EBPP successfully raised funds and a substantial number of essential supplies. Our team members distributed essential supplies to thousands of evacuees in 104 evacuation camps in 5 regencies of Bali, mostly in Buleleng regency, North Bali, where most of the people from our villages evacuated to. j) Emergency Earthquake Response in Rural East Bali: assisted hundreds of families affected by the Lombok earthquake in a large east Bali mountain village where the updated figures show No. of homes completely destroyed is 133 and another 300+ badly damaged AWARDS: a. 2001: Excellence Award for Community Service: from PATA, Bali & NT Chapter b. 2003: First Prize Award from The Vetiver Network, USA for Innovative Use of Vetiver System in Asia Regional Farmer User category: Outstanding Contribution to the Research and Development of the Vetiver System for Using Vetiver Systems as a Key to Sustainable Development in Bali c. 2004: MBE (Member Of The Order Of The British Empire) Award for David John Booth in Queen Elizabeth II’s 2004 Birthday Honours List for “Services to Sustainable Rural Development in East Bali, Indonesia d. 2006: Danamon “Special Recognition Award” for “Empowering the Community of Desa Ban in East Bali” e. 2006: Certificate of Technical Excellence Class 1 from The Vetiver Network International, USA for David John Booth MBE for Soil & Moisture Conservation and Bioengineering and Extensions. f. 2011: Certificate of Technical Excellence Class 1 from The Vetiver Network International, USA for “Quality Plant Propagation and Nursery Management, Erosion Control, Slope Stabilization, Pollution Control, Extension and Training, Agricultural Application, Other Uses Of Vetiver, and Vetiver Information Dissemination.” g. 2012: Overseas Prize from Institution of Civil Engineers for “Sustainable Development – the East Bali Poverty Project”