We've seen first-hand the wonderful work East Bali Poverty Project has done for remote villages in E Bali. Via our membership with 1% For The Planet we have, as a company, donated consistently since 2008, and twice visited the schools and communities benefiting from the funding. This nonprofit is using the funds they receive efficiently and effectively, but they deserve and could utilize more support. EBPP is an organization that we as a company based in part on Bali, believe to be playing a critical role in developing social and environmental sustainability on the Island. What they have created there is also a brilliant blueprint from which other communities around the world can benefit.
Donna von Hoesslin
Founder, Betty Belts
Both my wife and my companies have been involved with and fans of the work of EBPP for over 10 years now.
We have seen first hand how founder David Booth's skill, vision, compassion and drive have transformed life for East Bali villages but greater than that, has helped to point the way to sustainable development for the Island Nation itself.
EBBP's vision for education, support and growth for the Balinese people is an example of having a very high emotional intelligence as projects go, and we find David Booth's vision to be continually closely aligned with ours for our company staff there.
I am very impressed with the East Bali Poverty Project which I’ve followed for many years - because they engaged many impoverished communities from the outset, putting children’s health and education first, followed by road infrastructure, water and toilets for all. They are one of the best Yayasan in Indonesia and since knowing them personally since 2015, I’m more impressed seeing that David Booth, Komang and the whole team are truly dedicated to ensuring that all of the many villages not only have access to basic rights, but they also are creating a sustainable bamboo-based business with and for the communities, especially with beautiful bamboo bikes and other products. They know what they are doing and they have people’s future as the goal. After Mount Agung erupted, David, Komang and their team supported their communities in many evacuation camps. After Lombok earthquakes destroyed many houses, EBPP built new ones for them. I will keep supporting them because I trust and believe in them.
I have followed the growth of this NGO since inception and have always been impressed with their focus, growth and transparency. Mr. Booth's concept has proven invaluable and translates to multiple locations, enabling local people to care for themselves and others; now a part of local life through multiple generations.
It's been wonderful to see the youth take the helm in their villages using what they've learned, applying naturally in their own appropriate manner this sharing with family and neighbors.
EBPP's history speaks for itself, all accolades and awards have been well deserved.
I am very much impressed with the work of East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP). The NGO is highly committed to empower young people in the Ban Village area– an isolated and hard-to-reach area in East Bali. Young people gain crucial knowledge and skills to improve their lives and those of their families. They participate in intensive classes e.g. on nutrition or sexual and reproductive health and rights, but also related to financial and computer literacy or job options. As a result, they become true change agents for their communities and advocate for their rights even with government authorities. EBPP’s work brings about powerful and sustainable change for these young people and their communities.
I've been into the villages with the medical volunteer in the EBPP jeep, distributing medical supplies and helping remote villagers who otherwise have no access to medical professionals or medicines. I've also visited schools built by EBPP and powered by solar panels, also in remote villages that never had education for their children or power. Another EBPP effort has been to bring water into villages where the residents formerly had to walk 6 hours round trip just for 2 buckets of water. This is a very worthwhile foundation to support
I think that David Booth and his team are doing an outstanding job and have done so for many years now. I have been to Bali and the work that they are doing is making a huge and long lasting improvement to the children of East Bali.
For the last 8 years. Our College has worked with the East Bali Poverty Project bringing students from rural Australia to East Bali to work together to learn more about our different cultures and bring a joy of learning to all involved. The first day sees Mount Barker students teach East Bali students m, the next day the East Bali students teach ours. The thing that underpins all of this is a community that wants a hand up not a hand out. Knowledge is the foundation of success here and it is what this not for profit is about. It is about empowering community members to want an education, to have hope for a future that they are responsible for that has a no harm foundation - socially, economically and environmentally. The East Bali Poverty Project is sustainable, inclusive and but on the foundation of community not individuals. We will be supporting EBPP long into the future.
The East Bali Poverty Project is an amazing project. Devoted and hard working volunteers, sincere and human.
We trust the organisation and therefor we supported it (financially) a few times.
EBPP does exactly what they say they do: Honest, reliable, well-established, transparent.
Based on my own experience with them, I cannot fault them.
I heard that an Englishman, David Booth, who had lived and worked in Indonesia for years had started a new project in the 90's to help people living in a remote area of Bali on the slopes of Mt Agung, an active volcano. They were suffering severe illness due to not having water to drink other than rain water which was deficient in the natural minerals found in ground water. As a water engineer David decided to give back for his time in Indonesia by surveying the mountain near the villages (30,000 people) to find suitable spring water for drinking. That done he then raised funds for the installation of water pipes and storage tanks. One thing led to another and the project grew to include access roads, schools, power generation, agriculture, bamboo industry and more. I visited the villages during a stay in Bali some four years ago and was very impressed by the amount of work that was being done and the low costs involved in the administration of the project. The local inhabitants were a delightful group of people eager to grasp the opportunities which the project was offering them. I have been a supporter ever since and will revisit at the beginning of 2019. A PROJECT WORTH SUPPORTING.