2010 achievements summary
1. DIRT ROAD IMPROVEMENT FACILITATING ACCESS FOR 3,000 FAMILIES: More than 25 kilometres linking 19 hamlets
2. INTEGRATED & RELEVANT EDUCATION FOR PREVIOUSLY ILLITERATE CHILDREN OF ILLITERATE PARENTS
- >1,000 children educated in 6 EBPP Schools; 167 have graduated primary school, 64 children graduated Junior high school AND 3 children graduated senior high school until July 2009; 267 children are now in EBPP Elementary school, 49 in Junior high school in 6 hamlets and 48 in senior high school
- School meals: each child gets daily nutritious meal PLUS a glass of milk & multivitamins
- School buildings: 6, which EBPP call “Community Learning & Development Centres” as they are also for community vocational training & libraries. Built with 100% community participation, ownership is handed to the communities, and maintenance becomes their responsibility
- Sponsored tertiary education for local children: 1 village girls sponsored to Elementary Teacher Training College in Singaraja; 1 girl completed Elementary Teacher diploma in 2009, 1 girl completed Kindergarten teacher diploma in 2008 and 1 girl completed Accounting diploma in Denpasar in 2007.
Libraries: Comprehensive community library in “EBPP Centre for Sustainable Development”, with more than 3,000 titles & in each of EBPP’s 6 Schools with wide range of topics for complete global learning
3. MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTS – ALL CHILDREN & MOTHERS PREVIOSLY HAD IODINE & VITAMIN A DEFICIENCIES
3.1 Iodine deficiency elimination education & supplements provided annually: 1,900 mothers & 2,634 children
3.2 Vitamin A supplements provided annually: 2,462 infants and their mothers
4. COMMUNITY HEALTH
4.1 Initiated 27 Posyandu (monthly community health posts) Ban village with local kaders:
- 1,200 mothers & 1,400 infants 0-5 benefit monthly
4.2 Nutritious food for 1,400 infants in all Posyandu in Ban village
4.3 Primary health education for mothers & babies: All 3,000 families in Desa Ban twice a year
4.4 Eye testing and remedial for the whole community by John Fawcett Foundation: 1,500 children & 300 adults
4.5 Cleft palate, cataract & eyes operations, paralyzed kids treatment PLUS all other serious illness including cranio-facial surgeries: 89 children & adult assisted; 1,500 children & 300 adults have their eyes examined
4.6 Polio vaccinations since 2005: facilitated by EBPP team – 1st time in history: 1,117 infants 0-5 yrs
4.7 Measles vaccination since 2005: facilitated by EBPP team – 1st time in history: 1,070 children
4.8 TBC assistance programmes: TB awareness & training to schools, cadres & “posyandu” to protect the populations from exposure to active TB and ensure those individuals sick with TB obtain complete treatment.
4.9 Maternal child health & playgroup programmes started in January 2010: to 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.
5. OUTREACH DENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME: >20,000 mostly children have been treated in Ban & 3 adjacent villages since October 2006
6. SAFE WATER SUPPLY & EDUCATION: Safe water from 3 mountain springs developed serving over 1500 families, 850 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 in Temakung, Darmaji & Jatituhu hamlets
7. ORGANIC VEGETABLE & HERB FARMING: All EBPP school children & OVER 500 families in 6 hamlets who can now grow a wide range of vegetables & herbs for daily meals on rehabilitated farmland – eventually able to sell the surplus
8. VETIVER GRASS TO STOP EROSION, CONSERVE SOIL/WATER & FACILITATE ORGANIC FARMING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Millions planted! Vetiver Systems and Vetiver Grass Technology introduced to the Department of Public Works and Asian Development Bank (ADB) for all future highway design & waste water treatment in Indonesia
9. BAMBOO FOR REFORESTATION, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Develop a sustainable Bamboo building, from local bamboo, as EBPP training centre and example for local communities, schools, local government, etc. of “grow your own house”, attributed to Ms Linda Garland of EBF; Bamboo reforestation of 20Ha, owned by the communities and designed to bring back ecosystems and sustainable community livelihoods; to develop an economically and environmentally sustainable agro-forestry system in an arid 6.5 hectare valley on the steep volcanic ash Mount Abang slopes to improve livelihoods, health and nutritional status, rejuvenate the local eco-system and mitigate the effects of climate change, thus improving quality of life for this and future generations and serve as model to be scaled-up and replicated in other regions.
10. PLAYGROUP PROGRAMMES: EBPP’s model “Maternal Child Health & Playgroup” project for the mothers and the approximately 1,200 infants from 0-5 years old launched in January 2010 with a grant from the Annika Linden Foundation: To empower thousands of illiterate mothers and infants 2-6 years and their families through relevant education in nutrition, hygiene, sanitation, basic reading & writing skills and intelligent games which they can apply at home. After development of our model pilot programme, the playgroup will be conducted twice monthly in all of our 27 Posyandu
11. SOLAR POWER RENEWABLE ENERGY for remote regions of Desa Ban with no access to the electric power grid. Installed in (a) 5 EBPP Schools, (b) EBPP Bamboo Training & Treatment Centre, (c) the 8 most isolated posyandu – enabling cadres to communicate 24 health emergencies and (d) solar powered water pump to provide water supply from deep wells to the 400 families of the 3 hamlets of Temakung, Jatituhu & Darmaji.?
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