East Bali Poverty Project

A SELF-HELP MODEL FOR AID THAT REALLY WORKS – THE EAST BALI POVERTY PROJECT (EBPP)

ebppadmin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:30:37 +0000

By Dr. David E. Parry z This great article by Dr David Parry was published in the February 2012 Jakarta Expat magazine.

Many thanks once again to all of our friends that have given your hearts and support to enable these communities to move forward to the 21st century in such a short period of [...]

It’s Harder To Stomach Up Hill!

ebppadmin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:51:10 +0000

By Chanelle Lauren Cox, EBPP Documentary Volunteer

Me in the children’s school garden, tending their organic vegetables

13th February 2012: I have been assisting with the development of an awareness video for East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) for the past few weeks. Over this time, I have become very familiar with various footage and [...]

EBPP’s Music Programme Students’ Brilliant First Preformance at Amankila Resort

ebppadmin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:44:55 +0000

By Eliya Simantov, EBPP volunteer Music Programme Developer

The four talented girls from EBPP’s Jatituhu School playing the recorders along with the accompaniment of our Music staff and talented students, at the beautiful Amankila Resort, Bali

24.12.11: We are extremely happy and proud to report on our talented students’ amazing performance at the Amankila [...]

REPORTS FROM THE FIELD: Kadek Indah, local health staff

ebppadmin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:43:09 +0000

By Lindsay Burns, EBPP Volunteer

Kadek Indah gives EBPP IDD (iodine deficiency disorder) awareness prog to the community

WOMEN who divorce their husbands and become single working mums through choice are incredibly rare in Bali.

But it was these exact circumstances that led 27-year-old Kadek Indah to the doors of EBPP, where she became [...]

REPORTS FROM THE FIELD: EBPP Posyandu Programme (Monthly mother-infant health posts in all 19 remote hamlets)

ebppadmin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:30:07 +0000

By Lindsay Burns, EBPP Volunteer

Cretinism and goitre. Caused by acute lack of dietary iodine intake. A Govt. Survey in 1998 showed 85% goitre prevalence in Desa Ban – highest in Indonesia!

THE discovery of whole families left brain-damaged by their meagre diet led East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) founder, David Booth, to seek [...]

REPORTS FROM THE FIELD: My first Site Visit, September 2011

ebppadmin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:19:04 +0000

By Lindsay Burns, EBPP Volunteer

EBPP Students’ bamboo Art studio/gallery and Cooperative in Cegi hamlet

It was 6am on 22nd of September 2011 and a thin crescent moon perched above a volcano-shaped lilac cloud framed by palms still vivid in the silvery morning light on the edge of Denpasar, Bali’s capital city.

Maybe it [...]

Teaching First Aid in the East Bali Wilderness

ebppadmin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:45:08 +0000

By Lindsay White and Aaron Fishman – Volunteer Health Advisers

Aaron’s Wilderness First Aid training to enthusiastic EBPP staff in EBPP Ban office

November 27, 2011 – What do you put on a wound to stop bleeding? Cobwebs? Leaves? Gasoline?

During our 2 months working with EBPP, we taught the staff quite a bit [...]

Foreigners’ Perspective of Indonesia’s 66th Independence Day by EBPP Family

ebppadmin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:44:07 +0000

By Andres Rico, Stijn Segers and Vinu Narayanan: MBA Volunteers from Vlerick Management School, Belgium, August 2011

Hundreds of children and families are gathering around the Indonesian flag for the morning salutation

Little imagination seemed to be required to picture a celebration day like Indonesian Independence Day. Many years had passed and with these [...]

EBPP Sustenance Newsletter, Volume 10, Edition 1, July 2011

ebppadmin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:05:04 +0000

Dear Friends of East Bali Poverty Project

East Bali Poverty Project?s Newsletter is back reporting on our latest initiatives in our mission to empower these remote mountain communities to determine their destinies with community based sustainable social and economic development.

Children?s relevant and integrated education was the community?s first request in 1998. This year, 35 [...]

Tackling Deadly Tuberculosis through Awareness Video & Brochures to Thousands of Children

ebppadmin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:56:54 +0000

By Aris Harianto, EBPP Marketing & PR

EBPP students from Cegi and Pengalusan learning their script before the TB drama shooting session

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most serious diseases in Indonesia and the problem is that communities, such as those in mountainous East Bali, have little chance of getting it identified [...]