Bali Amed Project
Travel About Bali has joined forces with the Rotary
Club of Seminyak to help with an urgent project.
On the dry East coast of Bali in Amed there are seven elementary
schools, all are poorly equipped, most do not have the most
basic of facilities that we take for granted. The Rotary Club
of Seminyak decided to help the schools to improve their facilities
and the lives of the students who attend the school. The club
started with Lean beach school that has over 200 students,
the school had no electricity, running water or toilets.
The majority of children who attend the school live in the
surrounding hills and the dry season do not have the opportunity
to wash at home as all of the household water must be drawn
from wells at sea level and carried up hill to their homes.
As a consequence of this impetigo and other skin diseases
are rife.
In June 2004 the Rotary Club of Seminyak raised the funds
to install toilets and showers in the Lean Beach School. The
cost of this project was $3600.00US dollars and has made an
enormous impact on the quality of life for these children
who for the first time in their lives have access to shower
facilities, drinking water and hand washing with soap.
Six other schools in the Amed area are in exactly the same
position as Lean Beach School was. Travel About Bali has joined
with the Rotary Club of Seminyak to set about raising the
funds required to install the much needed basic facilities
in the other schools. Travel About Bali will donate
$5.00 AUD per person from every tour booked to Rotary to help
them reach their target.
If you would also like to help the children of Amed donations
to the project can be made by Cheque, Money order or Direct
Bank Transfer, Cheques and Money orders must be made payable
to RAWCS- Bali Amed Project . Direct bank
transfers can be made to
National Australia Bank
BSB number 086-136
Account number 04842-0469
Account name Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd
( RAWCS )
Cheques and money orders can be sent to
The Rotary Club of Swan Valley Inc
Attention Noel Allen
PO Box 2232
Midland 6936
Western Australia
When making your transfer it is imperative for you to include
your NAME in the description or narration section of the bank
form otherwise it is impossible to identify your payment amongst
others on the same date for the same amount.
After you have made your bank transfer, please send an email
to noel@lonarch.com.au
letting him know the reference detail to help the treasurer
to identify your particular deposit.
All donations are tax deductible within Australia
Due to the time it takes to process payments and send out
receipts to all donors we ask that the minimum donation be
$20.00 AUD. No money is with held for administration
all proceeds go directly to the Bali Amed Project. All donations
will be administered in Western Australia by the Swan Valley
Rotary Club. Please quote RAWCS registration number AP 007
when making your contribution and on all correspondence. Contact
travelaboutbali.com if you would like any more information.
Donations of new or used children’s light
weight summer clothing are also urgently needed.
Clothing is light to carry so when you plan your next holiday
to Bali or you know of friends or work colleagues planning
a visit to Bali please ask them to pack up a bag of children’s
light weight summer clothing to give to the Amed school children.
Donations of goods can be taken to
Mark Savage The President of The Rotary Club of Seminyak
at Jl Daksina 5 Batu Belig Kerobokan Bali Email president@rotaryseminyak.org
or
Urs Klee- General Manager Kartika Plaza Hotel Jl Kartika Plaza
Tuban
urs_klee@discoverykartikaplaza.com
Kamal Kaul- General Manager Oberi Hotel Legian Beach
kkaul@theoberoi-bali.com
Stefan Zawada- Pergola Restaurant in Sanur (just off the
bypass behind Mc Donald’s)
Please package and clearly mark your donation Bali
Amed Project. Alternatively rather than packing and
bringing goods with you other items that can be purchased
cheaply once you arrive in Bali are children’s shoes,
children’s underwear, containers of liquid soap, shampoo,
antiseptic creams, exercise books, pens, pencils. Donation
of any of these items is also very much appreciated and can
also be packaged, marked and given at the above collection
points.
Travel About Bali will keep our site updated with
the progress of the donations towards to construction of
the toilet and shower facilities at the schools in the Amed
region. Travel About Bali will donate $5.00 per person from
every tour booked to the Bali Amed Project. When you book
a Travel About Bali tour you are ensured of personalized
service designed to suit your individual interests and you
will also help Rotary to make a difference to the lives
of the children of Amed. For more information on Rotary
Club projects in Bali visit www.rotaryseminyak.org
Go into the site and click onto community.
Project Update
Travel About Bali Pty Ltd has been donating $5.00 AUD per
person from every tour booking to the Rotary club of Seminyak
to assist with the Amed Schools project. The money Travel
About Bali has donated combined with some money raised by
Tina Gale at a Melbourne fundraiser has reached a level
where we can now put these funds to good use.
Patrick Scott from the Rotary club of Seminyak has purchased
an 11,000 litre water tank for one of the Amed schools to
enable them to have there own storage tank. The tank will
be linked to a spring 2km away that supplies water to the
village. The water stored in the new tank will then mean
the school can have water available for drinking and also
to run the toilets, hand washing, showering facilities and
also water for the small school garden.
The tank installation will be completed in January 2006;
photographs of the school and preliminary work on the project
are available for viewing at www.rotaryseminyak.org
During a recent visit to Bali in November, Travel About
Bali also took up 80kg of school supplies, children’s
clothing and toys for the Amed schools. The children were
so happy and so grateful for the kind donations that make
such a difference to their lives. The donations all came
from the Upper Swan Primary school in the Swan Valley, Perth
Western Australia. We contacted Louise who teaches Indonesian
language classes at the school and explained what we wanted
to do.
Louise arranged for us to leave a collection box in the
office foyer of the school. The response has been overwhelming.
Students and parents have donated so many great items that
we now have packed another 80kg to take with us on our next
trip early in the New Year. These photographs of the students
with the donations from Upper Swan Primary school show the
joy even the smallest donation can make.
In the donations we took to Bali there were also a large
quantity of story books, these books were given to the Changu
school library. Changu School is a school for expat children
and the majority of books in their library were only black
and white photocopies. Changu School is very appreciative
of any books as it is very difficult to buy books in English
language in Indonesia and those that are available are very
expensive.
Travel About Bali will continue to donate $5.00 AUD from
every booking towards the purchase of the next water tank
or construction of toilet and shower blocks for the schools
in Amed. Don’t forget donations can be made direct
to the RAWCS account and donations of children’s clothing
and school supplies can be left at one of our Bali collection
sites as listed on our main page. Thanks so much to everyone
who made donations this year, your help is appreciated.
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