Welcome to Yayasan Peduli. Yayasan Peduli is an Indonesian NGO that has been established to develop and implement projects that will provide long term sustainable solutions for the people of Indonesia. The aims of the yayasan are to: Reduce and avoid poverty. Rehabilitate damaged land. Develop healthy local economies. Yayasan Peduli is committed to empowering people so they are able to help themselves by building healthy local economies that can support them.

A lady of 70 seriously injured in the Yogyakarta earthquake and living under a blue tarpaulin. She has steel plates from her thigh to her knee to repair her shattered right leg.

Poverty - a vicious cycle
Across Indonesia poverty is increasing. While there are many complex issues involved the illegal logging of forests is a primary cause of poverty in many provinces. The land has become dry and unproductive and can no longer support the people. Trying to survive the people eake out a living and further damage their environment in the way they farm the land and their cutting of what little wood remains for cooking fuel. Other key issues are increasing populations and lack of finance in local economies to fund economic development.

With poverty come many problems, malnutrition, poor health, bad living conditions, lowered levels of education, depression, social problems, exploitation and indoctrination.

Helping people to help themselves
It has long been recognised that while providing food and other supplies is essential in dealing with emergency situations, we consider that this is not a long term solution for poor people.

The best solutions are always those which help people to help themselves. This is Yayasan Peduli's approach. By providing a working economy that people can participate in free of exploitation, the people are empowered, they can live with dignity and respect and they can build their own futures.

Saving Lives in Munti Gunnung

5,000 people live in extreme poverty high on the slopes of Mount Batur in the North East of Bali. Incomes are as low as 10 cents per person per day, there is a severe shortage of water and the rugged ground supports only meagre agriculture. Child mortality rates are high, health is poor and a number of serious health issues such as malnutrition and Tuberculosis are common.

Yayasan Peduli is providing emergency health care to the people of the mountain and is planning a comprehensive program of activity to eradicate serious illnesses, correct deformities caused by malnutrition and raise the general health of the population. Yayasan peduli is working with another NGO, Yayasan Masa Depan Untuk Anak Anak, which is organising the provision of dependable water supplies for the people. Once these emergency programs are well advanced the Yayasans will begin work on the provision of education and the establishment of business enterprises to enable the people to sustain themselves and raise themselves out of poverty.

For details of this project see Saving Lives In Munti Gunung.

Rebuilding the Pottery Industry of Yogyakarta

Preventing poverty from developing is just as important as alleviating existing poverty. In the earthquake of May 2006 the potters of the Yogyakarta province lost everything. Aid aganecies have provided emergency medical and food aid and providied temporary shelters.

Without their livelihoods they could well slide into poverty. Yayasan Peduli is rebuilding the industry before it is to late. If their industry can be rescued the poverty trap can be avoided for these people.

For details of this project see Rebuilding the Pottery Industry.