The Hearts Company Collaborates With East Bali Poverty Project
The Hearts Company will be collaborating with East Bali Poverty Project. An organization that has changed the lives of thousands struggling through poverty in East Bali.
What is the East Bali Poverty Project and how did it start?
The East Bali Poverty Project was started by David Booth. David Booth was a civil engineer that had a lifelong goal of helping others in poverty-stricken areas. He came across a small village in Indonesia along the Eastern slopes of Mounts Agung and Abang (Volcanoes). This village, of about 3,000 families, was about 6-8 hours away from any access to clean water, health, and education. Booth partnered with the community leaders by surveying what they needed most and put a plan into action.
This Project started by:
Creating an educational curriculum based upon surveys taken with 1,056 families to assess what material needed to be learned. The program was implemented in 1999 and in 2003 the first student graduated.
Creating organic school gardens to help villagers utilize land for food and medicine
Implemented a health care system that included bringing a doctor and dentist to the village twice a month.
Providing iodine tablets to the village for Iodine deficiencies
Providing 950 families with clean water, rainwater reservoirs, and working toilets.
Creating the East Bali Bamboo project by planting over 8,000 bamboo trees and creating jobs by making useful resources from Bamboo.
Creating a Youth empowerment program in 2015 (similar to what we know as the STEM program)
How is The Hearts Company making an impact in Bali?
The East Bali Poverty Project is a coalition of 6 major schools. Each school is set up to have a primary school, middle school, high school, and empowerment program. After reaching out to the schools, we discovered two of the schools were lacking elementary schools and did not have computer rooms in place. This was an opportunity for us to make an impact. We started working on a plan to fundraise and build the village’s first computer room and a new elementary school.
Why Education?
The Hearts Company believes no child should be denied the right to education and we have made it our mission to ensure all children are provided the opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute to their society. When we reached out to East Bali Poverty Project and found out there was a community that had not been introduced to computers, and had students using the same textbooks for years as learning material- we knew we had to do something! These textbooks limited their capabilities to learn because of their outdated nature- innovation is impossible. This is why we are going to Desa Ban with a team full of volunteers to build a computer room from the ground up. However, we won’t stop there. We will also provide 30 brand new desktop computers with internet access. These improvements will allow these kids access to the world at their fingertips. It is our duty as human being’s, and also vital to our survival, to create these connections to all parts of the world. It is how new information is brought to light, new ideas are shared, and cultures are united.
How can you help support us?
For more information on how to donate or sponsor a project please visit our website at www.Theheartsco.org/donate , or join us Summer of 2020 for The Hearts Company group trips in Bali. Where you will get hands on experience in developing schools for East Bali Poverty Project.