Bali Life Foundation (Yayasan Bukit Kehidupan Ungasan)
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Mission Statement
We are a charity with a big heart. We strive to provide love and care to those in Bali who are disillusioned and disadvantaged, with the aim of giving them hope, dignity and purpose. We do this by running various projects, a children’s home, a street kids project, a women’s centre, a sustainability project and an education project. Vision “Giving HOPE, PURPOSE and DIGNITY to the unprivileged people.” Mission Providing basic needs to the unprivileged community – giving hope Teaching good moral and values. – dignity Training & giving skills for the future. – purpose Goals To be an excellent foundation which successfully empower disadvantaged community especially children and women. To see the unprivileged people given another chance of being successful and reach their dreams. To raise young people to lead and be independent and responsible generation in order to succeed the nation. To be an example for any non-profit organization throughout Indonesia and beyond.
About This Cause
We are a small charity with a big heart. We strive to provide love and care to those in Bali who are disillusioned and disadvantaged, with the aim of giving them hope, dignity and purpose. We do this by running various projects, a children’s home, a street kids project, a women’s centre, a sustainability project of education project. Vision “Giving HOPE, PURPOSE and DIGNITY to the unprivileged people.” Mission Providing basic needs to the unprivileged community – giving hope Teaching good moral and values. – dignity Training & giving skills for the future. – purpose Goals To be an excellent foundation which successfully empower disadvantaged community especially children and women. To see the unprivileged people given another chance of being successful and reach their dreams. To raise young people to lead and be independent and responsible generation in order to succeed the nation. To be an example for any non-profit organization throughout Indonesia and beyond. HISTORY BaliLife’s founded by Brad & Siska Little. Brad is Australian and Siska is Indonesian. In 2005 Brad met a 9 year old boy living on the streets of Kuta, begging for money. The boy asked Brad if he could come and live with him, get away from the streets and start going back to school. At the time Siska was pregnant with their first baby and they were living in a small house. They both felt it was unwise to take the boy in. Brad met with him again and heartbreakingly had to explain that they couldn’t help. This left Brad & Siska with a deep desire to find a way in which they could help, not just this boy, but all the street children of Bali, Indonesia. Brad & Siska returned to Australia and shared at Brad’s home Church. They desire to set up a children’s home in Bali. A visiting businessman just passing through was challenged by what was said, wrote a cheque for AU$17,000, and Bali Life was born! A suitable property was found and the first two children, two boys aged 8 and 5, arrived in November 2006. The BaliLife family has grown steadily over the years. The home now houses 42 children from a variety of backgrounds and places in Indonesia. The home has been developed to be as self sustaining as possible and in 2008 we set up our own farmland and chicken coup where our goal is to provide and egg every day for each child. Our efforts and successes in this have been a great example to the local community around the home, particularly as the area we live in is very dry and arid. We have recognized the need to provide the practical skills to the children in our care that will allow them to gain good jobs when the time comes to leave. This has led to the development of a training workshop programme where the children learn English, IT, cooking, music, art, dance and sport. In March of 2010 we were approached by a Balinese lady who had found a child on the streets in a bad condition. She had nursed him back to health and now needed to find a permanent place for him to stay. We were glad to give him our last bed. The more we have spent time with this boy the more we are convinced that this is the same boy that Brad met briefly in 2005, the one who inspired the birth of the children’s home. It seems almost too good to be true, but it is such a fitting way to close the first chapter of Bali Life. Childrens Home The Children’s Home is at the heart of why we exist. We take in children who have been orphaned, abandoned or rejected, with the aim of giving them hope, dignity and purpose. We provide physical, spiritual and emotional guidance, as well as education. Empowering them to become independent, responsible and successful citizens who can influence change in their own community, in Bali, in the nation of Indonesia and throughout the world. Shelter We take in children who have been orphaned, abandoned or rejected, in our care who come from all across Bali and Indonesia, from a variety of backgrounds, but each in need of a new start. We have built up slowly, taking in just one child at a time, allowing them to settle and allowing us to find sponsorship, before taking in the next. We work off a budget of USD$100 per child per month. This covers the shelter, food, education and healthcare for each of the children Schools The children all attend local schools; this is supplemented by our educational workshop programme. Healthcare Healthcare in Bali is privatised, and can be expensive. The USD$100 per child per month will cover their basic needs, but should a child become very ill we will look to our sponsors for support. Street Shelter Made* doesn’t know who or where his parents are; he doesn’t remember them. He doesn’t know how old he is, he seems to be 10 or 11 years. He doesn’t even know his real name, Made is what the other street kids call him. A kind hearted Balinese lady found Made almost unconscious, and with a bad skin infection, next to a main road in Kuta. She took him in, helped him to get better, and then approached the social department to ask where he could be taken so he didn’t end up back on the streets. The social department recommended Bali Life. The problem Sadly, Made’s story isn’t an isolated instance; beneath the tourist attractions of Bali there is an island in real need. There are many people living in poverty. This poverty, for example, leads to child exploitation since children are sent to work on the streets to earn money and are unable to receive an education. Therefore in the busy tourist areas of South Bali a large scene of ‘street kids’ has developed where children are sent out by their families to beg. Life on the street is full of danger and vulnerability. If begging is unsuccessful it often leads to petty crime and, heart-breakingly, into life as sex workers where work/money is more dependable. Being children, they do not fully understand the implications of what prostitution would mean; they just see it as a secure way to gain an income (a relatively good one compared to begging). Obviously, this is an appalling prospect for these children and on top of that it is worth noting that in Indonesia there are 270,000 (2007 est.) people living with HIV/AIDs – making it the 25th worst affected country in the world. (7) Our work Street Kids Center The greatest ways we can help to stop children from begging on the streets is through empowering the children and their parents through education and work opportunities. This is where our Bali Life Street Kids Center comes in. The Center is in Denpasar and looks to serve the street children and their families who would usually be begging on the streets. The center has two main programs; the Street Kids Informal School and the Bali Life Women’s Workshops for the mums. The informal school has two classrooms, a library and a play area for children at different levels to come and learn. We also have a large play area and garden for the kids to be kids. The kids come Monday to Friday from 9am and we provide breakfast, lunch, learning opportunities and play, they then return home before 5pm. It is a great program and we have vision to grow it even further. Our future vision is to have a third class for children who want to achieve a formal schooling certificate as well as vocational training for older children to get them out of the streets and gangs and into productive, meaningful work. Bali Life Women’s Workshop The Center also has the Bali Life Women’s Workshops for the mothers of the children. In order to get children off of the streets it is vital for them to still be able to earn a wage. The Bali Life Women’s Workshop is a place the women can come and make handicrafts and jewelry for our customers and in turn the mothers are paid a wage. Many of these handicrafts are being sold all over the world. Every day a woman can work is a day her children don’t have to go beg on the streets. If you have a craft idea and a way to sell your idea please contact us to set up a time to meet. Our future vision for this program is to expand into a larger operation with training for youth as well. Street Visits The Bali Life street work team carry out twice monthly visit to the streets of Kuta, offering food and clothing, and to assist with the basic hygiene and medical needs of the street beggars. This is also an opportunity for us to see any major needs for kids who may need rescuing from their situation. We aim that through the practical help, love and support shown, they will experience a new kind of love. * His name has been changed to protect his identity.