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Our Beginning……
Yayasan Harapan Sumba (YHS) is an Indonesian-registered, non-profit, non-political
and non-religious community-based development organization working in partnership
with the local people of West Sumba, particularly in Sumba Barat Daya District. YHS is
committed to bringing sustainable improvement to the lives of hundreds of illiterate and
malnourished children and their families. |
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YHS been working in West Sumba since 2002 addressing the basic needs of the local people for water, education,
health information and sustainable livelihoods.
YHS was formally founded on March 31, 2005. For two years previously it operated as an autonomous branch of
Yayasan Ole Milla Ate (YOMA), a local NGO based in Kupang on the island of Timor. By 2005 we felt strong enough
to register independently and agreed with YOMA that they would work in Timor while we concentrate our efforts on
Sumba.
YHS works in co-operation with the local government, the local hospital and above all with the villagers.
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In October 2010 the co-founder of YHS, Ann McCue, was awarded the MBE
(Member of the Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty the Queen
for 'Services to the Sumbanese People of Indonesia' for her work in Sumba. |
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Our Communities
Our core community is the 15,000 people living in 250 hamlets which are loosely
gathered into five villages in the ‘counties’ or Kecamatan of Wewewa Barat
and Wewewa Timur, Regency of Sumba Barat Daya.
The people here are nearly all
subsistence farmers with low levels of education, poor health and traditionally
a non-cash economy. |
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Our Mission
• To improve the lives of impoverished farming families through access to sufficient and safe drinking water and
basic sanitation.
• To improve the health of impoverished women farmers and their children through knowledge of nutrition,
hygiene, sanitation and basic health practices.
• To enhance the food and income available to farming families through knowledge of better farming techniques
and access to good quality vegetables and tree seedlings.
• To improve education facilities in targeted schools where school heads are committed to giving the best
possible education to their children.
• To identify disabled village children and to improve their lives through treatment, therapy and
operations wherever possible
Our Goal is to make these dreams come true:
• No deaths in childbirth and greatly reduced number of children dying under five years old.
• Healthy, well-nourished children whose mothers understand and can provide the food the children need to stay
healthy.
• Children are no longer sick with preventable diseases caused by filth and polluted water.
• Greatly reduced incidence of malaria, dengue fever, typhoid and upper respiratory illnesses.
• Increased household disposable income.
• Many more children completing primary school with vastly better examination results. A much higher number of
children continuing to junior and senior high school.
• All disabled children identified and diagnosed, and provided with operations and basic therapy.
• A reduction in abuse and violence towards women and children and in the ‘sale’ of young girls in marriage.
• Women and children participating in household and community decisions and activities.
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