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It’s Harder To Stomach Up Hill!

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

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

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

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

Kadek Indah doing IDD awareness programme to the community

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)

Goiter & cretinism-1

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 [...]

Teaching First Aid in the East Bali Wilderness

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

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

Ceremony

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

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

Scene in the “doctor’s surgery”, Pengalusan & Cegi ‘stars’

 

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 [...]

EBPP SOON-TO-BE GRADUATES: FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Wanna be boy cooks try their hand into the juicer..

By Julita Mekaria, EBPP Secretary

11th May 2011 BaliEpicure presentation in EBPP Bamboo Centre

On Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 6.15 am, I went up to Daya with David Booth, Elia Simantov, (EBPP volunteer Music Teacher) and Aris Harianto (EBPP Marketing & PR) with 2 key objectives

To prepare 2 of EBPP best young [...]

POTENTIAL LOCAL BUSINESS FOR EBPP CHILDREN & COMMUNITIES: MAKING HIGH QUALITY BAMBOO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

300x300 LOGO EBPP JPG

By Elia Simantov, EBPP volunteer Music Programme Developer

30th June 2011: Towards the end of the year 2000, just over two years after David started working to alleviate the extreme poverty and dire conditions at the mountain villages of Desa Ban in East Bali, one of his visions was for the children who [...]

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