Since 2004, The Annika Linden Foundation has been funding a number of the EBPP’s programs with YKIP as the administrator.

The East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) is a non-profit organisation established in 1998 by a British resident of Bali after an appeal for help by an isolated mountain community, forgotten by time and progress.Participatory community surveys in mid-1998 showed that thousands of people lived in abject poverty without water, sanitation, roads, schools, health facilities and electricity. Illiteracy was up to 100%. Malnutrition and iodine deficiency disorders were endemic, iodine being the essential nutrient for healthy child births, brain and body development. When interviewed in November 1998 to determine their priorities if EBPP could help, over 1,000 families requested childrens education as a foundation for a better future. An inspiring and productive collaboration then began with the most disadvantaged communities.

ALF-YKIP has sponsored a number of programs since 2004. A summary is listed below. Please CLICK HERE for a detailed account. For more details on EBPP, please go to www.eastbalipovertyproject.org

For 2004, EBPP ran five projects sponsored by ALF-YKIP:

1. Development of library resources in Ban, Karangasem

2. School uniforms for 51 children in Jatituh

3. Development of existing Peranakan Ettawa goats for nutrition (milk), education & sustainable economic development as model project to benefit the schoolchildren and community of Cegi hamlet:

4. Appropriate technology bamboo-cement covers, filters and hand-pumps for cubang (rainwater collection reservoirs), to provide a clean and safe household water supply for the most isolated families in Daya hamlet:

5. Upgrading of dirt road to facilitate continuation of Sustainable Development Projects to Empower impoverished mountain communities, prioritising children.

In 2005, there were three major projects, namely:

1. Educational Art Story Book:

THE ART OF LEARNING BY DOING

The goals of this project are to: Provide a resource book for children, teachers and parents internationally that gives many essential lessons on hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, sustainable organic vegetable farming, infrastructure and, most important for children – what can be achieved not only in life’s basics but also in the creative arts, if they put their heart and soul into it Illustrate to the children and community of Desa Ban that effort and creativity can produce results to benefit them and many other people Generate funding to continuously support the ongoing development of this community and serve as an model for other similarly impoverished communities

2. Purchase of Daihatsu vehicle.

3. Manikaji Integrated Education Program

For 2006, the four projects funded are:

1. Manikaji education program (continuation of 2004 project)

Manikaji integrated education programme started in January 2001. We presently have 70 children, reduced from the 79 in January 2005 due to various children dropping out for reasons beyond our control, mainly forced by their parents to find work because they are now literate.

2. Developing Mount Abang Spring in Pancoran to supply safe water to EBPP’s 70 schoolchildren and their communities

3. School Building for 52 Children, 4 local tutors and one local cook in EBPP Integrated Education Programme in Jatituhu Hamlet, Doubling as “Community Learning & Development Centre”, Including Library (books supplied by ALF) and Kitchen.

4. Jatituhu Hamlet Organic Vegetable Farming for Sustainable Nutrition, Food Security and Eventual Economic Development for Impoverished Families in Jatituhu Hamlet, Starting with 52 EBPP School Children as part of their Integrated Education Programme, Who will Then Train Their Parents

The projects funded in 2007 are:

1. Educational books for all EBPP primary and secondary school classes

2. Manikaji Children’s Organic Vegetable & Herb School Garden for Sustainable Nutrition, Food Security and Eventual Economic Development for Impoverished Children and their Families

3. Manikaji Community Organic Vegetable & Herb Community Learning Gardens and Family Kitchen Gardens for Sustainable Nutrition, Food Security and Eventual Sustainable Social & Economic Development

4. School uniforms, socsk and shoes for 294 children

For 2008, the projects are:

1. Continuation of the Manikaji education program (73 students plus for Senior High School students)

2. Continuation The Manikaji children’s organic Vegetable & Herb School Garden.

3. Continuation of the Manikaji Community organic Vegetable & Herb community learning garden and Family Kitchen Gardens

4. The children’s organic vegetables garden in Darmaji hamlet

5. School uniforms fee for 334 children

6. Purchasing educational teaching visual aids to provide more comprehensive learning tools.

7. Manikaji school solar power installation

8. Darmaji school building construction

9. Purchasing three computer notebooks for EBPP Daya mountain office, EBPP Bunga school and EBPP Education team to take to each EBPP school for educational purposes.

10. Purchasing two new desktop computers for EBPP Desa Ban Centre: one for the education team & one for the EBPP Library/Resource Centre.

11. Purchasing one Steel locking cabinet for EBPP Daya mountain office for safely storing materials and equipment when not in use.