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Bumi
Sehat Field Report – October 2008
Robin,
see how i have formatted your FR for sending out... is it OK?
The "donate" info at the end will be more developed into an
"ask" concept.... what do you think?
Loving new
Baby sister “Koming” born at Bumi Sehat Bali, September 2008
(this pict will be inserted...i ran out of time this morning
The Power of Three… and the Bumi Sehat Vision
A Three legged stool stands strong, even
on bumpy surfaces. The midwives, nurses, doctors and families
involved with Bumi Sehat believe in a three-legged approach to
safer motherhood and infant survival, Culture, Nature
and Science. We find that we are best able to support
a woman on her journey, as she navigates through the waters of
pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum, if we respect these
three aspects of healing and medicine.
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Blending culture, nature and science to preserve lives in
Aceh: a group meeting with Bumi Sehat midwives,
traditional birth attendants, pregnant women and
Indonesian trained midwives to share knowledge and
experience.
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Indonesia has beautiful
diverse cultures. Culture will determine for a woman
what she will be comfortable with. Will she be able to eat
certain foods? Will she wish for many family members to
support her during labor and childbirth? Or, will she prefer
to be alone? Will she wish for quiet in the labor room, or
joyful chatter? If a woman knows in her heart that she can
say the prayers she feels will guide and strengthen her in
labor, all will go more smoothly. If she is made to be
ashamed of her culture, or is worried that she will be judged,
her birth process could be impaired. In Aceh nearly all our
patients are Muslim. The women do wear “jilbab” everyday.
They eat “halal” food and they celebrate the holidays and
rituals of Islam. Working with the “Dukun Bayi” (traditional
birth attendants) and the “Orang Ilmu” (gifted people) of Aceh
brings a deep level to trust to our clinic practice.
Naturally all the food prepared for staff and patients in
“halal” at Bumi Sehat Aceh. In Bali most of our families are
Hindu. At Bumi Sehat they feel the awe of greeting their
babies as they are coming into the world with the Gayatri
Mantra and prayers folded with flowers. Likewise our
Christian and Buddhist families feel free to share their
prayers as they celebrate the births of their children with
us.
Nature must be
respected along the journey to motherhood, after all this is a
natural ancient process that works. Nature’s most loving
hormone, oxytocin inspires us to make love, to make babies.
It causes us to labor and it drives the birth machine.
Afterward it is oxytocin that prevents dangerous postpartum
bleeding in the mother. It makes lactation possible. We make
our babies, we birth them and we may feed them due to the
miraculous nature of the love hormone. So you can see why we
must respect nature when it comes to caring for pregnant women
and their babies. At Bumi Sehat Aceh’s birth preparation
classes we teach that natural foods, breathing fresh air, and
drinking pure water, avoiding all that is unnatural, is the
key to respecting nature, and avoiding complications.
Science is the academic branch of
midwifery care. Sometimes we need the help of obstetrical
science to safely navigate the waters of pregnancy and birth.
Applied with respect for nature and respect for culture,
science can be a very effective blessing.
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A
miracle of mother’s love, as hydrocephalic baby Julaiha
has survived against all odds. Bumi Sehat had paid for
this child’s surgery soon after her birth, but doctors
refused to do it, as they believed she had no chance of
survival. Julaiha is now over two years of age. She is
still breastfeeding and intelligent, a joy every day of
her life. Her parents are happy to care for their special
needs daughter. Bumi Sehat does what it can supplying
medical back up and vitamin supplements, but this child
lives because her parents take such wonderful care of
her.
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Dahlia lost her father and all of her siblings and
grandparents in the Tsunami. Today she is a full-time
midwifery student, fully supported by Bumi Sehat’s
donors. Her plan is to work in the Bumi Sehat Aceh
clinic, which is in the photo background.
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It’s
been a powerful year so far at Yayasan Bumi Sehat…
Perhaps
here I can only hope to share the highlights and the
heartbreaks with you. This year the numbers of patients we
saw went up, especially in Bali. The number of births we
assist with has greatly increased. As the economy suffers, the
word spreads that we help people in need, and they come.
(Yesterday Dr. John saw nearly 50 sick patients, we did 47
prenatal check ups and delivered 4 babies, it was a lively day
to say the least.)
By January at the Bumi Bali Family Health
and Birth Center the number of babies we
were receiving began to soar. Though we never turned a
laboring mother away, we were short of beds. Some nights
recovering moms and their babies were transferred to Brenda
and Pak Meng’s house, or to my house, just near the clinic.
Thanks to the generosity of Marcella and Evan, who had their
baby girl with me… Bumi Sehat has a new room. Instead of
having just seven beds we now have eleven.
Because of the fact that the land Bumi Sehat
Bali sits on is leased, we must move in less than five years.
Megan Pappenheim`s Bali Spirit team threw us a fantastic
Fund-raiser in March with Meghan McDonald as their organizer.
Michael Franti and Oppie Andaresta donated their talents for a
fabulous musical event. It was a sensational success! We have
put these funds aside as a foundation of a substantial savings
which will be needed to acquire a permanent home in Bali for
Bumi Sehat. Thank you Team Bali Spirit for bringing us nearer
to this goal!
The Bumi Sehat Aceh clinic, built by the
Rotary continues to keep it’s doors open in service to the
Tsunami survivors. Two beautiful midwives from Italy, Maria
Dalle Pezzse and Lisa Forasacco gave six months of their lives
in service at Bumi Aceh, working beside our fifteen Indonesian
live-in team members at Bumi Aceh. We are presently seeking a
new international midwife or two to serve between six months
to a year in this most desperate and beautiful place. Dr.
Eman, Midwife Yanti, Nurses Leman and Bankit need help.
Team Bumi Aceh was blessed this year by the
birth of Eti and Pak Sudung’s baby Daughter. Translator Mimi
and Nurse Leman were married in August and have just announced
they too are expecting a baby in March. This happiness makes
life on-site at the clinic more joyful.
Yes, we have water births for the Tsunami
Survivors, and twice a week we hold prenatal health education
and exercise-dance-yoga for new and expectant moms. Our
medical team has a close working relationship with the
Traditional Birth Attendants in our area. Ibu Bulan and Ibu
Sadhia have hand phones provided by our donors, they attend
prenatal group classes with our midwives and expectant
mothers, and call Team Bumi when a woman in labor needs
assistance. This program has been a very successful in saving
lives.
Yes, the Rotary NYC/Ubud ambulance is still
running, doing amazing service in Aceh. Yes, the Bumi Aceh
clinic is operating on solar power, with wind generator
back-up. Yes, we maintain an organic garden to feed our staff
and share with patients. Three of our team members will be
attending the Yayasan IDEP “Green Hands” organic perma-culture
farming capacity building workshop on scholarships donated by
our sister NGO, Indonesian Development, Education, and Perma-culture.
www.idepfoundation.org
The Tsunami is far from over, as waves of
suffering still break on the lives of the survivors every
day. Most are still jobless. Those that finally have little
homes are blessed, but the entire population copes day to day
with the flooding. The post disaster inflation of food prices
make eating well and staying healthy an impossibility. Thanks
to the generosity of Rotary Clubs International, Direct Relief
International, BCC, Otis Elevators, IDEP Foundation, Paula
Baudaux, and many many donors and volunteers from all over the
world, the Bumi Sehat clinic in Aceh is still open, when so
many Not-for-Profit Organizations were forced to leave.
Back in Bali the economy, like the world
economy is suffering, which translates into an increase in
poverty and malnutrition. Because Bumi Sehat accepts the
poorest of the poor patients, we are seeing an increase in
birth defects and babies who face death at the fulcrum of
their births.
In July our team received a baby boy who did
well throughout the labor, but died at birth. CPR brought him
back, but he survived only nine hours. Without the
availability of autopsy we have no explanation for why this
extraordinary baby’s fate was to live a beautiful but short
life. We did learn that both parents work full-time jobs,
seven-day weeks, for the same business. For their toil their
combined wage in about $40.00! The young husband shared his
sadness that his pregnant wife and five-year-old daughter were
eating only one small meal a day.
In August we had two babies in one night
born without heartbeat or respirations. We were able to
resuscitate and both babies are doing absolutely perfectly
well, breastfeeding and growing. The third mom to give birth
that same night bled out nearly a liter! Even with IVs in her
arms, smiling and breastfeeding her baby, she never knew how
close she came to death’s door. Our team quietly did their
skilled work, not complaining that in that 24 hours they had
received six babies and had had no rest at all.
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Putu Restu was born with cleft palate and hare lip. His
chances of survival were grim. With the support of Team
Bumi and the amazing Australian women of Soroptimists
International who bring us breast pumps (THANK YOU),
Putu’s mom, was able to breastfeed and bring her baby to
sufficient strength to have the corrective surgery. Today
they came to visit me at home. Putu’s face was beautiful,
he was tall for his age of just under one year. His
bright smile is the best reward for Jon Fawcette and his
team at YKI, who made this miracle possible.
www.humanitarianprojectsindonesia.org |
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Following up on Elsa Mercedes, the
ten-year-old Sumbanese girl that we took to YKI for help with
a colostomy that had never been fixed, she is doing
splendidly. The operation was another 100% success.
Jane Fischer of Team Bumi is seeking help
for I. Kadek Pande Juliartha, a 14 year-old boy who lives near
KAFE restaurant in Ubud and suffering from inoperable
Nasopharyngeal cancer. Although the cancer has not moved to
his organs, this young person has no chance without chemo and
radiation. At this writing, his breathing is so obstructed we
fear he could die in his sleep. Kadek`s father is mentally
handicapped and his mother has rented out the house, even the
kitchen, just to make ends meet. Their son had qualified for
the national program of government-paid health care for the
poor and scheduled for treatment at Sanglah in late September,
however the program was canceled. His parents had given up
when caring neighbors called Bumi to help. Jane makes home
visits and has helped Kadek’s parents to change their son’s
diet to chemical and MSG free home-cooked food: organic rice
porridges, lots of organic greens and protein provided by
neighbors and Bumi. Kadek is taking Bumi Sehat vitamins,
receiving acupuncture treatments from Dr. Bobbi and Dr. John
Ross. Jane keeps bringing in the good cheer to keep Kadek and
his parents hopeful that our community can find treatment for
their son. Although Kadek’s physical and emotional state has
much improved, we are awaiting exact diagnosis while sourcing
local Chemotherapy and Radiation treatments by launching an
international appeal for assistance to cancer foundations who
can partner with Bumi and give Kadek a second chance. For
updates on Kadek email Ibu Jane:
jane.fischer@hotmail.com
Ibu Anom, who came to us only after her
cancer had completely eaten her breast, passed away in
August. She had attended the bi-weekly free acupuncture
clinic at Bumi. With treatments and herbal therapy from Dr.
Bobbi she began to glow and feel so much better, even knowing
that we could not save her. When I last spoke to Ibu Anom,
she was just so happy that she had had this last year of
strength and clarity to give her some time with her husband
and eight year-old son. We thank Mark Savage of Semenyak
Rotary for his continued support and for bringing Ibu Anom to
us for treatment. Mark also found a wheelchair for Mas Jyoko
who suffered a stroke and aneurism in January. Thanks to
acupuncture treatments and Dr. Bobbi’s immediate response, Mas
Jyoko is beginning to walk.
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As for goal setting and attaining, I
would say that my life mission and Bumi Sehat’s mission
is: to work daily to relieve suffering in a culturally
appropriate sustainable manner – well, I think we are
right on target.
In these very
critical times in history, all of us working day to day at
Bumi Sehat Aceh and Bali, feel blessed to have this
mission. I believe our supporters are to thank for this
blessing, the opportunity to be in service to humanity.
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Patient Stats Bumi Sehat
Bali January - September 2008:
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Prenatal check
ups………………………………………….… |
3472 |
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Births…………………………………………………………. |
453 |
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Postpartum check
ups………………………………………… |
582 |
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Sick or injured allopathic
doctor’s patients………………….. |
772 |
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Acupuncture/chiropractic/homeopathy patients……………… |
1679 |
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Pediatric
patients……………………………………………… |
551 |
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Total Bumi
patients helped so far in 2008 |
7,509 |
Patient Statistics for Bumi
Sehat Aceh Clinic January – Sept 2008:
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Prenatal check
ups……………………………………………. |
847 |
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Births…………………………………………………………. |
68 |
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Postnatal and home
visits/breastfeeding support…………….. |
553 |
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Emergency ambulance
transports in labor to hospital………. |
27 |
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Emergency ambulance
transports sick/injured patients…….. |
45
(of these 12 were critical) |
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Sick or injured allopathic
doctor’s patients………………… |
5211 |
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Total Aceh
patients helped so far in 2008 |
6,751 |
Total both clinics – thanks to our
donors! …………………. 14,260
As an
important note, the most common ailments among tsunami
survivors have been:
hypertension, skin rashes,
infections, eye infections, dysentery, typhoid, worms,
scabies, breathing/lung related illnesses, and injuries from
accidents. (Malaria cases are less this year; Bumi Sehat
diagnosed and treated 11 cases of Fulciparium Malaria.)
The Bumi Youth Center
So far in
2008 the Bumi Sehat Youth center, located near our main clinic
in Bali, has awarded certificates to:
86
Computer students
71
Students of English Language
We have
had some amazing people help us with our youth center.
Our
wonderful young teacher, Yanti has now left us to attend
University in Holland. Her legacy is to have found four
students from Buntut Sari village, Trunyan, Kintamani, Bangli,
one of the poorest parts of Bali, where the citizens are
dependent upon farming and they have long suffered a drought.
Yanti found that since 1989 when statistics began to be
gathered, only one student from this village was able to
complete high school.
These four
students have reentered school, on a complete scholarship from
Bumi Sehat, including room and board near the schools,
uniforms, books, supplies, every essential and some basic
comforts. Their commitment is to become educators and provide
their own village with teachers. There is already and
existing school building.
These
students are: Ketut Sudiarta (college level teacher training)
Ketut
Wiadini: High School
Ketut
Danirat and Ketut Yuni, had dropped out and were working as
maids, they are now back in Junior High school, planning to
continue until they finish teacher training.
Yanti, working with Bumi Sehat had been
bringing blankets, clothing, food, medical supplies, etc. to
this destitute village high in the mountains. We realized
that the blankets would rot, the food and medical supplies
would be gone, but to help this village long term, we could
endeavor to educate their youth. We are so proud of Yanti,
and know she will quickly finish university and come home to
Bali to continue to help her people.
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Our Incredible Volunteers—we
hope we can list them all!
Dr. Frank Butler and his team of
international healer roustabouts will return again to Bali is
January. We are so happy as this team brings medical relief
to the most remote parts of the island. Dr. John Ross has
continued to give generously of his time and talent as a
healer. Dr. Soma continues her service to our pediatric
patients. Dr. Bobbi is permanent volunteer staff, and a huge
blessing for the Balinese people.
Many volunteers have come and served with
us. Mitzi Myerson was back in Ubud helping the new mothers
through labor with her healing hands. Nicole Heidbreder of
the Doulas Association not only gave her time and energy, she
raised funds to purchase essential supplies, including lights
for suturing. Chandra the German midwife/angel has returned
again to devote herself to the women and babies. Additional
team blessings include; Midwives, Riyo of Japan, Leslie of New
Zealand, Judith from the US, Doula Rachel and med student
Jessica. Iva Delany has served both in Aceh and at Bumi Bali
and continues to inspire us as she finishes her medical
training in NYC. Kayla Barnes is so missed, after returning to
the US she used her own funds to pay for our website! Linda Desmond, Sara
Estrin, Stacy Gunter, and Clare Loprinzi… we hope you return.
Pak Doug is not only famous for being the daddy of one of
Bumi’s cute cherubs, he has taken over the job of securing the
website. Frederic Challandes has continued to make our
website changes and updates. Jane Fischer and Liz Sinclair
head up the fundraising team, plus every kind of support
possible. Zhouie Lee joins team Bumi having finished
University of
Iowa, she is now Ibu Robin’s
personal assistant. Pak Wil provides filmmaking and media
support. Lakota Moira translates and lays out our books and
publications. Art work is provided by Zion Lee and Gede Robbi.
Ibu Jen Richardson for inspiration, fundraising support and
mediation services. Pak Frank keeps the accounting team happy
and sane, while providing the Bumi Bali staff with delicious
cakes. Brenda Ritchmond is finishing her master’s degree in
midwifery, while being the mother of five, serving on the Bumi
Sehat Board of Directors, and serving as our liaison between
the Muslim community in Bali and the Birth Center.
Indonesian staff in Aceh: Dr. Eman, Nurse
Leeman married to Mimi our translator, Nurse Bankit, Pak
Sudung logistics and his wife Eti, our bookkeeper, Midwife
Yanti, Midwife Lisa, Cooks, MaTun and MaNhi, Traditional
healer Ibu Ayshia, Gardening and recycling; Safran, Drivers;
Ijal and Marlin. Reception; Mellyana.
Bumi Bali permanent staff: Admin-accounting;
Sandi, Eka, Ayu, Raka,
Tini, Pastika, Youth Center; Kadek Ariawan, Translators;
Endang and Ibu Gandri, Maintenance; Pak Gusti, Housekeeping;
Ibu Putu, Jati, Made Ruma, Driver; Pagi, Night watchmen; Kunci
and Tarjo, Gardeners; Suarsa and Sudika, Recycling; Kasid and
Karta, Community clean-up; Darta, Saustika, Murdana, Pak Kaler,
hair cutter. Medical team; Reiki;
I.B. Rai,
Dr. Wayan Sudiarsana, Nurses; Putu, and Sri, Midwives; Jero
Susante, Agung Mas, Ayu, Agung Sayang, Ketut Suastini, Ketut
Rutini, Kadek Dwi, Made Suastini, Brenda Ritchmond, Swandewi,
Catherine Frankish and me… Ibu Robin.
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There are so many donors and sponsors, it
is impossible to thank them all… yet we wish to mention here
people and organizations who have recently been extra generous
in supporting Bumi Sehat
Bali and Aceh. Our deepest
gratitude….
Special
thanks to the Bupati Gianyar, Tjokorde Oka Artha Ardhana
Sukawati, affectionately known as, Cok Ace for their historic
visit to the Bumi Sehat clinic on September 23rd. His
political support helps to insure that our services continue
into the coming generations…
InterContinental`s Community Program for Bali has chosen to
sponsor Bumi Sehat this year. We are so honored. Their focus
will be helping us with the purchase of medicines and helping
to support the Indonesian medical team’s salaries…
Australian
Volunteers International – thank you for giving us Midwife
Catherine Frankish as a long term volunteer. Australian
Business Volunteers – thanks for the sponsorship of Elizabeth
Sinclair as our grant writer and capacity builder for the
Administration team…
Australian
Consulate General Direct Aid Committee – thank you for
sponsoring the printing of Bumi’s next two publications; “Ibu
Alami”, and, “Anak Alami” these books, like “ASI Esklusif
Dong”, which you sponsored last year… will enhance lives…
British Community Committee
(BCC)/Jakarta, thank you for your ongoing belief in Bumi Sehat
Aceh, and for supporting that belief…
Special
thanks to Bali Buddha, Ibu Brenda and Pak Paolo for providing
financial assistance to the Bumi Sehat Youth Center and for
sharing Ibu Brenda with us for all the years…
Margo
Berdeshevsky… thank you for poetic, photographic and financial
support. Still the “Lipstick Bird.”..
Grazia to
our friends in Italy… The City of Cesano~Moderno for ongoing
generous support from each and every citizen. The family of
Barbara Siliquini. The Alexander Langer Foundation for caring
for Bumi Sehat and upholding Peace on Earth, Ingrid,
Christine, Sabina, Marzia, Edi, Mau, Tiziana, and everyone who
remembers Alex Langer and his message, most notably…Maurizio
Rosenberg Colorni, Meriem Peillet and family. Please visit
their website:
www.alexanderlanger.org...
Paola
Bonfreschi, Paola Migliorini and the tireless members of
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements for
inviting me to speak at the Organic World Congress in Modena.
www.ifoam.org/modena2008...
Midwives
Wallaby and Farfala for having me speak at “Birth a Revolution
in Peace” in Damanhur.
www.damanhur.org...
Irene
Genovese and the amazing organizers of “L’Arte Ostetrica” A
European Congress on New Perspectives in Birth, for inviting
me to speak… and meet so many wonderful devoted midwives and
doctors from all over the world, all caring for peace by
protecting the next generation of humans…
Thank you
Chiara and
Farmacia Pozzi
for promoting Breastfeeding and inviting me to Italy, I will
be with you soon…
Il Melograno,
Tiziana Valpiana and all
the families who promote gentle birth in
Italy.
www.melograno.org...
Huge
thanks to my Publisher in Italy, Urra~Apogeo, for making “Dopo
la Nascita del Bambino” available in Italian language, and
spreading the news of Bumi Sehat…
Likewise
thanks to Celestial Arts/10 Speed Press in Berkeley for
keeping “After the Baby’s Birth” and “Eating for Two” and
therefore Bumi Sehat in the hearts of American moms…
Ibu
Barbara and Ibu Nola, thank you for coming year after year
with supplies and support…
Lee and
Chris Beckom and their friends all over Santa Barbara…
Emerald
Starr… for knowing what we need and making it happen…
Aloha
Solomon for bringing supporters full of heart from all over
the world to Bumi Sehat…
Sakthi
Foundation is still helping us day to day on the US side,
providing a 501C umbrella for our donations. They keep us
going in so many ways, Pradheep, and Bruce…
Soroptimist International of Helena, has been one of our most
faithful sponsors over a long time. Most appreciated are the
medical supplies, nutritional supplements, baby hats, blankets
and clothing, many of which club members hand make for us,
and… financial assistance…
Rotary
Club of Kew on Yarra has sponsored and paid for the updating
of all of Bumi Sehat Bali’s IT, computers and media support.
They have also donated a brand new baby scales and liquid
vitamins for infants and children. This club has committed to
Bumi Sehat as an ongoing international project, including
financial support…
Direct
Relief International is still the kind sponsor of the
operational funds for the Aceh clinic. When so many
international NGOs have left Aceh, Direct Relief remains loyal
to the healing work we are doing there in the Tsunami Relief
Clinic…
A Million
Mothers Create A Miracle and their “Mom” Katherine Bramhall –
you rock. See their website:
www.amillionmothers.com
This network of hearts has become a force of Mother Nature
herself…
Liz
Gilbert… thank you for placing Bumi Sehat on the “Eat Pray
Love” website… so many people have found us there and come to
Bali with offerings of help for our moms and babies…
The Ellen
Watson of Esalen Institute massage group for bringing comfort
to our pregnant moms and scholarships for Bumi Staff to train
as massage therapists. Ibu Susan Stein also donated treatment
tables, which we use at Bumi everyday.
www.jarimenari.com...
Ibu Janet
Malloy and “Jani Silver” for their support of our student
midwife, Suastini and for continuing to sponsor Bumi Sehat’s
Mother and Baby survival programs. You can se their work at “Gemala”.
www.gemalabalisilver.com...
Pak Caine
and the Dancing Donors for their devoted long-term support of
Bumi Sehat…
Ibu Jayne
Dixon thank you for the medical supplies and your willingness
to ‘mule’ them into the country for us…
Thank you
“Chautary Foundation” of Japan especially Mrs. Yamaguchi for
support of scholarships for our midwifery students in Aceh,
Dahlia and Yenni. These young tsunami survivors so appreciate
the opportunity to finish their educations and eventually join
the Bumi Sehat medical team in Aceh. Also for the wonderful
baby clothing…
Robin
Garrison of Maui, Hawaii, founder of Women who Care,
“dedicated to helping women in need.” Plus the Maui midwives…
Tina, Kadie, Jan, we love you and feel your devotion every
day. Costa Rican midwife, Vanessa, who volunteered in May, is
now expecting her third baby!...
New
Chapter Vitamins continues to supply Bumi Sehat patients in
Bali and in Aceh with all the organic Perfect Prenatal
vitamins that they need. For our developing babies it is
their best chance at a healthy start in life…
Dennis
Raimondi and Helene Lindbloom Raimondi recently married and
instead of wedding gifts have asked friends and family to give
to our projects, they have donated the expression of their
happiness to Bumi Sehat via Sakthi Foundation. Denis is also
visiting Rotary Clubs in the U.S. on our behalf…
Our newest
addition to the Bumi International family is the “Yogi’s
Unite” group from Las Vegas, Nevada. Thank you Sharon and
Drey for extending your hearts and Namaste…
Om Shanti
to the Brahma Kumaris team building and meditation program
that they have shared with Team Bumi Sehat Bali…
Pak Clint
Leazer, thank you for your support in so many many ways…
Huge
thanks to Rotary Ubud, especially; David Kupper (father of the
Aceh clinic), Tandy, Daisy, Raiki, David Lovental, Adrienne,
Eko, Alisa, and new member Nita. They are working hand in
hand with Rotary Clubs all over the planet to fund an
ambulance for the Bumi Bali clinic…
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Bumi Sehat is
completely dependent upon care, kindness and generosity to
keep our services going. So many people come by and offer
help, too many to name here. We are so full of gratitude!
Each of you receiving this letter has been essential to
our projects. You have preserved precious lives, relieved
suffering and quietly you have radiated a message of
peace.
Om Shanti,
Thank You and Love… Ibu
Robin
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How to make a donation?
There are a number of options:
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You may donate to our cause via
our own website (www.BumiSehatBali.org)
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You may donate to through the
Sakthi Foundation, a U.S. 501(c)(3) tax-exempt
organization, by any of
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By writing a check to the
Sakthi Foundation, with "For Robin Lim's work" (or
Yayasan Bumi Sehat) in the memo line. Mail to The
Sakthi Foundation, 1507 Lone Oak circle,
Fairfield, IA -52556.
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By wiring
funds to the Sakthi
Foundation; Please contact its president, Pradheep
Chhalliyil via email (donations@sakthifoundation.org)
regarding this.
3.
By transferring funds into Sakthi's
PayPal account. See
http://www.sakthifoundation.org/mother.htm to do this.
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You may wire funds directly to
Bumi Sehat Use the following details:
Bank: PT.BNI (Bank Negara
Indonesia)
Please send the funds to either Branch
Denpasar at the following address:
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Jl. Gaja Mada, No:30
Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia |
Or, to [Branch??) KLN Ubud at the
following address:
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Jl. Cok Sudarsana, No: 45
Ubud, Bali, Indonesia |
In both cases, use the following
account name:
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Yayasan Bumi Sehat
DS. PKR Nyuh Kuning |
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The Indonesian Rupiah account
number is 117-765-425
The U.S. dollar account number is:
117-766-133
The Swift Code is
BNINIDJADPS
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Due to his handicaps Kadek, age 8, may never walk
unassisted. With help from Dr. Bobbi, Dr. Soma and Dr.
Wayan Sudiarsana at Bumi Sehat, the quality of Kadek’s
life is much improved. The radio from Nurse Rachel adds
some smile medicine. |
Bumi Sehat Babies… thank
you all for giving them a better chance at growing up
healthy!
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