Women and Children Pandemic Food Security in Bali

Thank for you supporting Bumi Sehat's Pandemic Food Security Project.

Our Pandemic Food Security project is now 90% funded. Our team will be travelling to Munti in North Bali next week as there is still need for food donations despite tourism slowly returning.

Starting last month, the Indonesian government restored Visa on Arrival services and thousands of tourists are arriving in Bali weekly. We expect that the return of tourism means that living standards in Bali will start to improve. The number of jobs are increasing and workers who were laid off are being asked to come back to work. 

Thanks to your continued support of this project, almost 1800 households have able to eat at least one nourishing meal a day during this difficult time. Our team combines food packet delivery with mobile health care and has been able to deliver basic health and prenatal checkups and supply free prenatal vitamins to pregnant women, which helps with their nutrition.

We were assisted by one of our corporate donors, Uniqlo, which gave Bumi Sehat boxes of clothes to be donated and which our team gave out along with fresh veggies, greens and toys for the kids. We also had an anonymous donor who gave Bumi Sehat around $355 USD worth of food on our last trip.

We'd like to highlight one of the women (and her family) that your donations have helped. The family comes from Munti Genung in Bali, a poor, arid part of the island. The mother is usually found begging around Ubud. This is the only way she can get income as the soil in her village is very poor and there isn't enough rain to grow much food. She came to our Nyuh Kuning clinic to deliver her baby, a beautiful little girl. Several of our team took her back to her village and made sure she and her family had food, vitamins and clothing.