Sustainability Partners partners

Yayasan Senang Hati - the Happy Hearts Foundation - is lead by Putu and Ayu, two ladies badly affected by polio since childhood. The organisation now has over 150 disabled members who meet together to learn new skills and give each other mutual support. They have chosen to use our small regular grant to pay the electricity and water bills for their day centre and hostel, enabling them to concentrate on developing their programme without worrying about where the money to pay for these essentials is coming from.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
~ Margaret Mead

Social Change and Development works with disadvantaged communities in Tamil Nadu, India. We helped two self-help groups of gypsy women set up a bead chain making cooperative. This gives them an independent source of income to help support their families. They chose to use part of our grant to instal a tube well providing a reliable source of clean water and to build a communal washing place and toilet.

Yayasan Kasih Peduli Anak, another small Indonesian charity, works with street children in Kuta, Bali. It provides school classes and nutritious meals two afternoons per week, medical care when needed and tries to provide a safe place to sleep for those most at risk young girls who have come to the city looking for work but are often forced into prostitution to survive. YKPA also works to get the local authorities to implement the laws which are supposed to protect children from various kinds of exploitation.

Batu Layar School, on the island of Lombok in Indonesia, will provide a basic education for handicapped children and others who would not otherwise go to school. The school is being built by volunteers from the community which will also provide the teachers. They are using our small grant to buy materials to complete the building and to provide books and other equipment.

Caritas Keuskupan Maumere works to support poor communities in the Maumere District, on the island of Flores in Indonesia. Our grant will establish a revolving fund to provide credit to small productive businesses. The first two loans have provided yarn and dyes for a group of women Ikat weavers and new boats and fishing nets for their husbands in the village of Nangahure.

Feed the Orphan Farmers Association has been set up by activists in Juba County, southern Sudan to improve livelihoods by supporting farmers with training and small loans and reduce conflict by encouraging democratic governance and mediation in inter-tribal land disputes. Our small regular grant has enabled them to start to make plans for their future development.

All these projects aim to Improve life in the villages reducing pressure to move to the already desperately overcrowded cities. Stronger communities protect and restore their local environment with benefits to wildlife, local climate and public health.

Our delivery partners are people and organisations working to alleviate poverty, improve social conditions and/or protect the environment. It is their vision, courage and determination in the face of great difficulties that inspires our work.

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