Indonesia
The current centre provides medical care and support services for all orphans registered on any of the islands 38 orphanages. The project is taking in children from all religious and cultural backgrounds. It also operates a mobile medical service on alternate days. The staff visit the orphanages on a rotating basis and the children are treated on site but if further medical treatment is required they are taken to Anak Anak Bali for ongoing care. During their stay the children have access to computer and english studies. The doctors and nurses also educate the orphanage staff and children regarding hygiene and health. They teach preventative measures to improve the children’s overall health and well-being. In the first year of opening Anak Anak Bali treated over 2,000 orphans and its preventative work is making a strong, positive impact.
Our aims are for the project are to 1. facilitate the establishment and operation of primary schools in the Abun villages of Mbatde and Syurkwes, 2. to develop a primary school at Mbatde, an isolated village of about 150 people (three days walk from the coast), in particular provide funding for: construction of a three classroom school building using saw timber and metal roofing, a teacher and two assistant teachers, teaching materials, and 3. develop a primary school at Syurkwes, an isolated village of about 100 people (one day walk from the coast), in particular to provide funding for a teacher and teaching materials.
In August 2008, GDG conducted a monitoring and evaluation trip to West Kalimantan visiting GDG projects in that area.
Amongst the excellent projects witnessed was a child development project in Mangalla.
The project currently houses, feeds, educates and develops 360 children from the surrounding communities, who previously lived on the streets or in the jungles. Most of the project’s children are orphaned or have parents who cannot adequately care for the children.
This project has successfully combined excellent facilities with nurture, care and a family environment to best cater for the children’s development. There are also various aspects and approaches being undertaken towards self sustainability including fruit and vegetable farming, research into new energy supplies and also home made building blocks.
This project will be carried out in Kupang, West Timor. Goals of the project include: To build a centre and medical clinic for the community in a village area of Kupang in West Timor.
To provide medical training, conduct community medical clinics in isolated villages in the primitive area and host a community radio program in East Sumba.
Our project is to fulfil agricultural and farming activity and train locals. The activity will reduce poverty and assist the care of 75 orphans. Additional facilities for these orphans will be built. The task includes the growing of vegetables, goats for meat and milk, chickens, bread baking. This project is integrated with the community.
The Bali Street Kids Home was founded in October 2000 when an Indonesian lady named Agustina Padatu (Tina) with a huge heart, rented a house in downtown Kuta to try and accommodate a growing number of street children in Bali.
Many of the children come from poor villages in East Bali where their parents have no work and very little if any education. Most have experienced or witnessed neglect and abuse. The children are sent down into the city to beg or help their parents with any work they can get.
The children are “rescued” by Tina with the permission of family and village elders to live in the home and receive care and education in a loving environment.
Funds raised in Australia pay for the children’s school fees, uniforms and books.
Due to the increasing need we now rent two houses in the same cul de sac and accommodate 25 children and 6 staff members.
The Home is funded purely by donations internationally and all the staff are volunteers.
