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RCBUS Collaborates With the John Fawcett Foundation [JFF]
RCBUS Collaborates in the John Fawcett Foundation [JFF]’s Sight Restoration and Blindness Prevention Project. REDUCING AVOIDABLE BLINDNESS IN INDONESIA Bali During each program, people with eye problems are checked by our screening team. Those who can be assisted with glasses to correct their vision are fitted with glasses, and others receive treatment for eye infections to prevent more serious conditions developing. During the screening process, people who are blind with cataracts are identified and operated on the same day in JFF’s mobile eye clinic which accompanies the team to the village. The day...
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Collaboration with Rotary Club Nieuwkoop, Netherlands
On May 29, 2023, visiting Rotarian, Jaques Bindels, who is on the Board of Directors of Rotary Club Nieuwkoop, Netherlands, spoke to the Rotary Club Bali Ubud Sunset [RCBUS ]membership. He explained a project in Gianyar that is currently under the auspices of Yayasan Anak Unik [The Unique Children’s Foundation]. It educates intellectually disabled children in collaboration with Luh Ketut Suryani, MD, PhD, from the Suryani Institute for mental Health in Denpasar. Dr. Suryani’s expertise is mental health. Bindels told us that the school is so successful that it has outgrown its current...
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Long Sam Project
LONG SAM is a term from the Dayak world and refers to an area in East Kalimantan near the Kelay River. This area is divided into: Wehea with 22,000 hectares Lesan with 13,000 hectares the Animal Rescue Center. To access the Lesan Camp or the Animal Rescue Center, one must travel by boat on the Kalay River. The boat leaves from Merasa village. There are 6 rangers working in Wehea, and currently 2 in Lesan. The rangers conduct patrols, report on the status of the area, and add their assessments of any problems...
Continue ReadingSewing for Living: A Rotary Project That Wraps the World in Yarn and Love
Sewing for Living: A Rotary Project That Wraps the World in Yarn and Love The Sewing for Living project is sponsored by Rotary Club Bali Ubud Sunset [RCBUS]. RCBUS teaches local women to use a sewing machine and to crochet. Balinese women have always had multiple jobs: taking care children and family, doing all the housework, providing help to the community, and assisting at temple and cultural events, among other duties. It is important for women to make their own money, not only for their self-esteem, but to enable each of them to...
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RCBUS Completes 17 Water Tank Projects
Rotary Club Bali Ubud Sunset (RCBUS) has implemented 17 water projects since 2007, mainly in East Bali. The villages that received such aid include the lower half of Gulinten Village, Gitgit Village, three projects in Banjar Canguang, 2 projects in Batukeseni, Lipah, Linggawana, a return to Gulinten to add 250 more families to the project, Banjar Aas in Desa Bunutan, Banjar Songis, Beluu, and Kendampal. Project Nr. 16: Rotary Club Bali Ubud Sunset [RCBUS] partnered with Kasih Ibu Hospital to provide clean water for the residents of Desa Central Seraya in Karangasem Regency....
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Rotary Club Bali Ubud Sunset Partners with Kasih Ibu Hospital to Provide Clean Water for Desa Central Seraya
Rotary Club Bali Ubud Sunset [RCBUS] partnered with Kasih Ibu Hospital to provide clean water for the residents of Desa Central Seraya in Karangasem Regency. On Wednesday, June 23, 2022, the Regent of Karagasem I Gede Dana, accompanied by health officials, social officials; the head of BPBD, and the head of the Karangasem District, met with the Director of Kasih Ibu Saba. Kasih Ibu Saba will celebrate its 6th anniversary on AUGUST 6, 2022. To help commemorate that event, Kasih Ibu Saba agreed to donate twenty-two water tanks to one of RCBUS’ water...
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The Long Sam Program and Yayasan Hutan Masa Depan
The WEHEA project works in East Kalimantan to eradicate the devastation of the Wehea National Forest along with its wildlife and the culture of the Dayak people who reside there. Wehea and the yayasan support animals, local humans (Dajak) and the rainforest Goals of the Wehea project are preservation of tropical rainforest, no release of CO2 and protection of their animal and human inhabitants (Dajaks). Today 6 Ranger stay there and take care on the whole area, doing permanently patrol. Wehea area covers around 22,500 ha rainforest with the highest Indonesian protection status given...
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Clean Water Pojects
Rotary Clubs in Ubud have implemented 15 water projects since 2007, mainly in East Bali. The villages that have received such sid include the lower half of Gulinten Village, Gitgit Village, three projects in Banjar Canguang, 2 projects in Batukeseni, Lipah, Linggawana, a return to Gilinten to add 250 more families to the project, Banjar Aas in Desa Bunutan, Banjar Songis, Beluu and Kendampal.RCBUS is currently assessing Seraya’s water supply> We continue to help connect villages to exisitng clean water supplies using PCV pipes, gravity, an occasional pump, cooperation from the banjars, and a...
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Wehea and Yayasan Hutan Masa Depan
The WEHEA project works in East Kalimantan to eradicate the devastation of the Wehea National Forest along with its wildlife and the culture of the Dayak people who reside there. Wehea and the yayasan support animals, local humans (Dajak) and the rainforest Goals of the Wehea project are preservation of tropical rainforest, no release of CO2 and protection of their animal and human inhabitants (Dajaks). Today 6 Ranger stay there and take care on the whole area, doing permanently patrol. Wehea area covers around 22,500 ha rainforest with the highest Indonesian protection status given...
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Sewing for Living
Sewing for Living is a program for Balinese women that teaches them sewing machine and crochet skills, empowering them to be able to work from their homes to help support their families. Sewing for Living is establishing markets for their handcrafted items locally, in Germany, in the US, in Australia, and around the world online.
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