Welcome to
Yayasan Peduli Munti Gunung

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.

Saving Lives in Munti Gunung
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.