Student Executive
This Friday our Student Executives are selling Bali Street Mums Project bracelets and necklaces.
Balinese Women and Children in particular face extreme challenges to survival. High unemployment and little education, infant mortality and malnutrition. Add to this the danger of trafficking and forced prostitution. Unsanitary conditions in substandard housing, lack of running water, and prevalent sewage.
Despite Bail’s tourism-focused reputation as an island paradise, the beauty of its beaches and blissful waters, hide the tragic poverty of its people. Roughly 25 million people in Indonesia live below the poverty line. A further 20 percent teeter on the brink, with income just marginally above poverty1. In rural Bali the desperation is amplified. Its villages face poverty rates above 35 percent.
Since its origins in a one room shack, Bali Street Mums has empowered over 400 women and children of Denpasar with desperately needed resources. Our programs focus on empowerment through education, housing, skill development, and nutrition.
As a school, we will be supporting Bali Street Mums to aid women and children and assist in providing essential resources directly to where they are needed. This is to replace our WorldVision sponsor child.
This connection with Bali Street Mums was made possible through Lee from Gather + Harvest in Mount Beauty.
Thanks,
Student Executive.
