Category
Country: Indonesia
Project: Kalaweit
Indonesia
Environment
Kalaweit was created in 1998, its overall aim is to save gibbons and their habitat in Sumatra and Borneo. In Indonesia, the forests are being devastated by logging, driven by the demand for tropical wood, and above all by clearing to make way for oil palm plantations. Young gibbons ...
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Project: Refill My Bottle
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Environment
Refill My Bottle, originally started in Bali, is now expanding not just all over Asia, but worldwide! This initiative aims at tackling the issue of plastic pollution and to tackle the problem at its roots, by reducing the consumption of plastic water bottles, preventing waste from ...
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Project: IDEP – Bali Water Protection Program
Indonesia
Environment, Health & Sanitation, Community Development
In 2002, Bali suffered the human tragedy that is better known as the Bali Bombings in which events make IDEP as an organization realize the importance of disaster preparedness for the community. Learning from the situations that occur, IDEP develop handbook for community-based ...
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Project: East Bali Poverty Project
Indonesia
Education & Vocational Training, Environment, Health & Sanitation, Community Development, Human Protection
East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) was established in July 1998 following a plea for help from residents of the impoverished Desa Ban Village. In this isolated 7,200Ha mountain village, made up of of 19 remote hamlets scattered over the steep, arid eastern slopes of Mounts Agung ...
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Project: ChildSafe Network
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand
Economic Development, Education & Vocational Training, Human Protection
ChildSafe is a network of local and international businesses and groups that protect children from abuse and prevent them from being placed in abusive situations. ChildSafe was created by Friends-International, a social enterprise with its head office based in Cambodia that protects ...
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