FOOTPRINTS - Projects in Indonesia

Supporting front line health volunteers in remote Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

Capacity building of community health volunteers and village midwives to better promote antenatal care to pregnant women, good feeding and care practices among parents of children under five.

AUD 30,001

Raised from 5,043 people

Implement small-scale irrigation systems to decrease malnutrition in remote Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

Improving irrigation will help to address persistent high rates of malnutrition - driven by poverty, insufficient access to water, poor knowledge about nutrition, and low agricultural production, exacerbated by climate change.

AUD 25,001

Raised from 3,803 people

Support mother and child health in remote Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

This project will encourage exclusive breastfeeding practices in Nias, Indonesia to help minimize the damage caused by the malnutrition-infection cycle. Training and coaching, supported by localized education materials, should stimulate uptake of exclusive breastfeeding and save lives.

AUD 25,008

Raised from 7,018 people

Protect reefs through sustainable tourism in Indonesia RUN BY: The Reef-World Foundation

This project will protect threatened coral reefs in Indonesia by uniting governments, NGOs and the diving and snorkelling industry to establish international environmental standards for marine tourism.

AUD 10,001

Raised from 3,148 people

Improve family nutrition in remote Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

This project will build food security and improve farming practices in two areas of East Indonesia, where stunting is extremely high, by setting up demonstration farms.

AUD 15,048

Raised from 4,794 people

Support Community Health in Remote Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

This project will increase the skills of community health workers to independently run community health posts, which are the only support structure for pregnant women, mothers and children in remote areas.

AUD 30,038

Raised from 9,727 people

Educate Communities for Food Security in Nias, Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

This will improve food security in remote villages by increasing incomes through small enterprises and providing on-going business and health coaching.

AUD 35,022

Raised from 11,171 people

Improve Food Security in Nias, Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

This project will increase food security to improve nutrition by diversifying food sources, increasing household income and educate the community on nutrition as well as health and sanitation activities.

AUD 25,004

Raised from 8,248 people

Educate Displaced Fisher Folk to Fight Malnutrition RUN BY: SurfAid

This project will help improve the farming skills of relocated fisher folk through creating and running a demonstration banana farm and educating communities through agri-business training.

AUD 25,024

Raised from 8,420 people

Provide Clean Water for Remote Communities in Sumba, Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

This project will provide clean water by protecting existing water sources from rubbish, animals and other dangerous pollutants as well as training communities to maintain water facilities and improve their knowledge of sanitation practices.

AUD 15,001

Raised from 4,935 people

Improve Health and Sanitation for Remote Indonesians RUN BY: SurfAid

This project will support eight remote communities in Indonesia to improve their everyday sanitation and hygiene practices through training, social awareness and the building of new and safe toilets to prevent open defecation.

AUD 20,042

Raised from 7,048 people

End Childhood Malnutrition in Remote Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

This project will create education and awareness multimedia in order to prevent childhood malnutrition in remote areas of Indonesia through awareness, training and community support programs.

AUD 25,004

Raised from 7,786 people

Support Healthy Communities in Gido, Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

This project will increase nutrition, hygiene and sanitation standards for the families of six isolated villages in Gido, Indonesia, through improving available basic health services and coaching volunteers to support the parents of these communities.

AUD 15,010

Raised from 4,925 people

Educating Communities for Healthy Children in Sumba, Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

This project aims to improve the health and well-being of children under five in Sumba, Indonesia through educating the local community in child-care techniques and healthy practices.

AUD 25,001

Raised from 8,119 people

Reducing Childhood Malnutrition in Bima, Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

To tackle malnutrition in Parado, Indonesia, by providing clean water & sanitation through 20 dug wells and latrines. Following on from this, community nutrition gardens will be created in order to further combat the issue.

AUD 15,003

Raised from 4,720 people

Ending malnutrition in Sumba, Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

In Sumba, Indonesia, childhood malnutrition is unacceptably high. SurfAid will work with communities to establish vegetable gardens and seed banks, and improve family nutrition through cooking classes to ultimately reduce malnutrition in children under five and pregnant women.

AUD 25,004

Raised from 7,150 people

Healthy Mothers and Babies in Sumba, Indonesia RUN BY: SurfAid

Infant and maternal mortality in Sumba are well above national figures. This project aims to improve the health and well-being of children under five, pregnant women and the whole community through education and health initiatives.

AUD 25,003

Raised from 8,897 people

Sustainable Solar Powered Water Facilities, Mentawai Islands RUN BY: SurfAid

To provide 3 villages in the Mentawai islands with solar panels to power water pumps that will provide water to the local communities.

AUD 16,252

Raised from 6,286 people

Saving Lives in Indonesia RUN BY: Oxfam Australia

To help poor and vulnerable communities, particularly women, to prepare for and withstand the shocks of disasters in disaster prone provinces of Indonesia.

AUD 20,002

Raised from 8,029 people

Clean Water project, Kinumbuk RUN BY: SurfAid

This project will improve the existing water source and deliver clean water to a village tank and tap stands in Kinumbuk, South Pagai, Mentawai Islands.

AUD 5,001

Raised from 2,324 people

Maternal & child health, Mentawai Islands RUN BY: SurfAid

Support 9 communities in South Pagai, Mentawai Islands, to establish vegetable gardens to increase their nutritional status, especially for children under five and pregnant women.

AUD 5,001

Raised from 2,300 people

Clean water project, Mentawai Islands RUN BY: SurfAid

Protection of a spring fed water source, installation of piping and tap stands in Sagitci Barat, Mentawai Islands to improve health and skills in building/maintaining water systems.

USD 5,001

Raised from 2,168 people

Ending early marriage, Indonesia RUN BY: Plan International Australia

1 in every 7 girls is married before the age of 15. This project aims to prevent child marriage in Indonesia which has a massive negative effect on a girl’s life.

AUD 10,000

Raised from 4,272 people

Water Facility Rehabilitation, Nias RUN BY: SurfAid

Assessment, evaluation and repair of damaged water facilities together with coordinated activities to deliver training in repair and maintenance and community ownership of the resources.

AUD 18,002

Raised from 8,682 people

Clean water & sanitation for 315 people, Nias RUN BY: SurfAid

Improve the health of Nias communities through delivery of safe, clean water and sanitation through wells, springs, rainwater tanks and building public latrines and hygiene education

AUD 10,041

Raised from 4,288 people