Sabu 2013 Update
Transcript of Sabu 2013 Update
Sabu Visit Aug 2013
Fred Hofmann Ken Mirams John Manks
Geoff Stockdale
Rotary Club of Beaumaris
Rotary Club of North Brighton S e l a m a t M a l a m International Committees
1160km from Bali, via Kupang
SEBA
What is Sabu (Savu, Sawu) like?
Remote & arid Indonesian island 45 x 15km
Monsoon Nov-Feb, then desert climate rest of year (Wallace line)
Hand dug water wells up to 35m deep, negligible sanitation
Electricity only in the port town Seba
Malaria and dysentery are endemic
60,000 people survive as fishermen & subsistence farmers in scattered villages – pigs, chickens
Monsoon enables a single crop of rice, beans, peanuts
Families live on one meal a day, as they have done for millennia
Sabunese are smart, resolute and mostly Christian
No government presence or interest in Sabu, till 3 years ago
Education
Education is good – primary to junior high level
Hostels enable remote students to access the only senior-high school
Also hostels in Kupang 250km away by sea for those that progress to Trade School or University
Grown to over 100 students selected from poorest, remote villages
The Sabunese educated in this way, return to their communities as teachers, nurses, tradesmen, agri –advisers, and in administration
$%^&^
girls & boys at the hostels:
Seba, Savu 55 Kupang, West Timor 45
100
girls : boys ratio 3:1
Dear Rotarians
All the students in Kupang would like to thank you for your help with our schooling. Your kind donations have helped pay our school fees, accommodation, meals and transportation.
Thank you very much.
- responsive to local needs - sustainable - capacity building - infrastructure What progress in 2013? What are the next priorities?
Project Selection
Highlights of the 2013 projects
We reviewed:
Progress of toilet & septic tank, per David Langworthy’s design
Use of the Mosquito Nets, funded by RC Seminyak
Water Filters, funded by RC North Brighton – Seba & Kupang
Use of $9200 of Student Hostel support donated by 40 members and friends of RC Nth Brighton & RC Beaumaris
The new Teacher Houses at remote schools
Recently dug water wells, dug with the jackhammer/generator
Sr Susi’s vegetable-garden project
Reloaded two donated computers, for Seba hostel students
New computer for Tarsi – the teacher doing hostel’s IT support
Tested hostel water-wells for e-coli
Mosquito Nets - family size
What are the Water Filters?
• Hand pump provides 40L/hr
• Water passes through bundles of 0.1 micron hollow fibres
• Bacteria are blocked due to their larger size.
• Developed in Moorabbin by Rota Pota
• Assembled In Mens Sheds, using skills of retired men to minimize cost
Poorest villages are in driest locations Well digging previously not possible,
owing to crumbly soils
18m deep well – lined with concrete rings
note the steps!
A newly dug well at snr high school, Seba - no rings required
Transporting Concrete Rings from our ring
making facility
Water Wells in remote dry areas
The new toilet block and septic tank,
take shape
designer: Rtn David Langworthy
at Seba girl’s hostel
New Teacher House
In Mehona
New Teacher House at Waduwela
Sabu Student
Tessa Tade - many success stories
• Tessa born at Pedarro, Mesara, Sabu 28 yrs ago • father left family after 8th child born • raised by mother and grandparents • lived at Seba hostel, while at senior-high 2006 – • Walikota hostel at Uni KUP – english teaching • now a teacher at Perema Primary, Sabu Is • married to Marcus, the headmaster • gave birth to a baby boy mid 2013
4 sisters and 4 brothers: Maria doing maths teaching KUP Uni Balasius (Natan) doing architecture KUP uni
Tessa
2010 living in Kupang
hostel, completing English Teaching at
university
2013 Teaching English and married to headmaster
of Perema primary school, with their baby boy
What is needed next? 1. Large chain saw to cut firewood for cooking at Seba hostels
2. Solar electricity for computer and renovation of classroom at Mesara Primary (identified Indonesian source of basic solar systems, & larger 5Kva units)
3. Library Bookshelves & sufficient school books so all students have access
4. Continuation of Student Hostel support program - $260 keeps a student 1yr
5. Beds and cupboards for the teacher houses
6. Renovate girl’s shower and clothes washing area – Seba
7. Rebuild boy’s shower and toilet facilities - Seba
8. Larger motor bike to enable Pastor Franz, to bring sick people to the hospital
9. Replacement of old worn-out ute, to bring the 5kva generator, jackhammer & concrete rings to new well-sites
10. Minimum two more wells (increasingly villages self-fund wells, and borrow
the jackhammer etc – good example of sustainability)
Shower area - girls hostel, Seba
Seba boy’s hostel • re-construction needs
Shower Block & washing
clothes at well
Toilet Block
Classrooms needing
Improvements in Mesara district
Solar at Sr Susi’s vegi farm
powers four globes for 3hrs, plus charges a mobile phone cost A$ 150 – 200 ex JKT
Hostel Kitchen kupang
Kero cookers in Kupang, as no firewood
Wood fires in Sabu, as Kero expensive and hard to get
The New Dorm for 22 Girls?
three girls / bunk (2007)
How sustainable is it? • Prime focus is on basic Infrastructure: wells, remote teacher houses,
school furniture, etc • Early projects continue to grow and become self sustaining – water well
construction, making concrete rings for wells in unstable soils • Construction is to high and lasting standards – min maintenance designs • The student hostel concept is mature and meeting the growing needs for
teachers, nurses, agri specialists and admin around the island; plus income to help their families break out of subsistence living
• Recent arrival of govt is supportive of our work, and it is initiating development projects and employment. The economy is growing despite drought setbacks
• We have established a network of valuable contacts and resources on Sabu and in Kupang
• Visibility of costs incl bank accounts. Bribery and corruption not a big issue • Younger generation learn English and IT • Sabunese are smart, hard working and live harmoniously
Are there Risks? • Pastor Franz
• Student Hostel funding
• Vehicle replacement
• Rotary clubs support
Countermeasures:
• Sr Susi & Tarsi, are supporting P Franz & projects • Diocese is now conscious of succession needs • Widened sources of funding • Involving more members and friends in our visits to Sabu • Govt expected to support a new hostel for Sabu tertiary
students in Kupang
Costs - at least half the cost of commercial charities, as no overheads to pay!
$22 /month
or 71c/day
Each Student
Rice 117
Fish 62
Vegetables & Cooking Oil 50
Bus Travel - KUP uni 19
Medicines, Utilities 12
AUD 260 pa
Perceptions of a recent Visitor
P.S. Another trip will take place this year – room for one or two, to join !
I have always wanted to visit the Sabu project in Indonesia, and am glad I made the time and commitment.
To physically see the needs and interact with the people and students impacted by Rotary's work, reinforces the value in what we are doing.
The work on water wells, equipment for students, support for students to be able to attend high school and university, and the houses for teachers; certainly helps what is a very poor community, living in real hardship.
I encourage others to make the time to really see the impact and value of any project Rotary undertakes.
Ken Mirams, President Elect, Beaumaris Rotary
IKAT woven by the mother of a Sabu student
ter ima kas ih banyak dar i d ia orang Sabu Pu lau
GBU
Nov 2008 Oct 2012
Wallace Line
Where does the money come from? source AUD projects Beaumaris Rotary International budget District Grant
10,023 1x water filter system, accom block for 22 girls at Seba 2010, 200x mosquito nets
8,000 Rebuild boys showers/toilets & upgrade girls shower - Seba; bookshelves Mesara primary school
4,500 2x water wells tbd
Beaumaris Rotarians & friends 23x 6,175 student hostel support
North Brighton Rotary members 15x 5,610 student hostel support, 2nd jackhammer, 1x water well
Seminyak Rotary, Bali 6,000 600x mosquito nets
Feldbach Rotary, Austria 5,100 3x water filters, 2x water wells @ Seba snr high
Dugan family - Olive oil & Xmas 3,950 2x 'olive oil' water wells @ Waduwela; student hostel support (Xmas 2013)
BaliCamp - Austrian Surf School 1,400 Jackhammer, chainsaw
Seba, Sabu Is - congregation Private donations 2007 12,500 Remote Teacher Accom: Mehona & Mesara
Private donations by - ‘Sabu visit’ Rotarians
8,600 new computer Tarsi, motor bike Franz, post grad Lodiwick
TOTAL $71,858