What
we do
Our office in
Labuanbajo has been operational for 12 months. We have contracted
and outfitted an office consisting of six large rooms, and an adjoining
bamboo building of four rooms. We have built a bamboo warehouse
at the harbour where we conduct our principal activity collection
and sorting of solid waste from Labuanbajo and in, and surrounding,
Komodo National Park. This program has been very successful, and
to date we have shipped over 500 gunny-sacks of plastic to Java
for re-cycling. We have published and distributed a wall-poster
with a time-line for bio-degradability of garbage in the oceans.
In conjunction
with this activity, we also run an educational program. We work
closely with SDN 1 Labuanbajo, and have sent three teachers from
this school to Bali for a week of intensive seminar at Dyatmika
School. We are working to implement the award-winning program on
turtle conservation taught at Dyatmika as part of the curriculum
for all of
Manggarai. We also have donated funds for the rehabilitation of
classrooms and toilet blocks at SDN1 Labuanbajo, as we believe strongly
in investing in human capital.
As part of our
marine program, we have recently purchased a wooden coastal vessel
for use in our first marine-based activity, a coral regeneration
pilot project in Komodo National Park. Once this is completed in
June, the vessel will be utilized to reach-out to fishing communities
of KNP. Our goal is to establish a fisher-folk cooperative for the
purchase of daily
necessities and water, and Styrofoam ice-chests on credit.
While the Foundation
is based in Bali, there are no personnel costs incurred there as
all our Directors are unpaid volunteers. Our only paid staff is
our energetic program head in Labuanbajo ,Paul Boleng, recently
retired, former head of Tourism in West Flores. We keep administrative
costs to a minimum so that our limited resources reach those in
need. Our funds come from donations from within Indonesia, and are
thus limited
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