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East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP)
The East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) is a non-profit organisation established in July 1998 by a British resident of Bali after an appeal for help by the 19 communities of Desa Ban, an isolated 7,200Ha East Bali mountain village, forgotten by time and progress.Commitments made at the outset of full community participation and bottom-up stakeholder led structured sustainable development established the foundation for mutual trust and belief with and between the 19 communities. The whole village was first engaged in 1998 by conducting participatory community surveys with 1,056 of the 3,000+ families in the 19 scattered sub-villages, which revealed thousands of people living without water, sanitation, roads, schools, health facilities, electricity or suitable nutrition sources due to their steep and sandy farmland that could only sustain seasonal cassava, corn and peanuts crops. The conditions across the communities exhibited abject poverty, poor health with widespread skin diseases, 85%-100% illiteracy, high child malnutrition, 85% goitres from endemic iodine deficiency disorders (the highest in Indonesia and perhaps anywhere) with abnormally high rates of cretinism (iodine being th.
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The record
- Headquarters
- Denpasar Bali
- Website
- www.eastbalipovertyproject.org
- Focus
- Sustainable Food Agriculture, Water Rivers
- Bioregion
- Coral Triangle
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