Projects
Ibu Foundation
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AOMAA - IBU Foundation partnership The IBU Foundation is called Yayasan IBU in Indonesia, a registered non-profit formed by the young team of Indonesian professionals after the tsunami. Their website: http://ibufoundation.or.id |
Since the tsunami, starting December 28, 2004, AOMAA has worked to provide capacity building and technical advice to a group of talented, young Indonesian physicians, nurses, psychologists, teachers, managers, logisticians, program development officers, and support administrative staff. From the original core group of 11 doctors and 50 volunteers who started working in Meulaboh, Aceh, on January 1, 2005, we assisted in the formation of a highly functioning, highly ethical, professional, local non-profit organization called IBU4Aceh.
They have provided: primary medical care, psychosocial support and counseling, preschool programs with integrated psychological counseling, community events, livelihood project development, village health worker training, vaccine campaigns for measles and polio in collaboration with UNICEF, triage for high risk pregnant women, coverage of abandoned public health centers, rural village outreach mobile medical teams, data collection and project referral, collaboration with UN and BRR government organizing committees, facilitation of UNICEF programs, collaboration with international NGOs, etc.
Download Ibu4Aceh Report, Dec. 2005Indonesian Handicapped Association
AOMAA serves as an advocate and fundraising organization for the Indonesian Handicapped Association, LPPI. Based in South Jakarta, the 20 year old non-profit organization is led by Board of Directors President, Maz Inung, a journalist, radio and tv news announcer and talk show host, and wheelchair tennis champion in the Australian handicapped games.
LPPI's handicapped volunteer team is building wheelchairs and providing psychosocial and spiritual support for tsunami survivors in Aceh. Independently, they build tough, custom wheel chairs that will negotiate the broken streets of Jakarta, Bogor and other cities, and rural country roads. Working with special pipes and special wheels they customize the chairs to fit the recipient based on their size and body conformation. They are working to replace mobility equipment that was swept away or destroyed in the tsunami and provide opportunities for people who lost limbs in the aftermath to be able to get around and work.
Maz Inung, who has been in Aceh most of 2005, and his team are able to use government commodity storage facilities all over Indonesia as sites to assemble these personalized, street tough wheelchairs that cost approximately $150 each and last a lifetime. They are seeking funding partners who will assist in these worthy goals.
We are especially happy to have donations earmarked in support of their "custom wheel chair" building program. In addition, we advocate for their psychosocial program to help tsunami survivors already traumatized, who later lost limbs from the damage and infection. What a terrific team to consider for your support.
Clinic on the west coast of Aceh
AOMAA, IBU4Aceh, Islamic Relief and the District Dept. of Public Health in Aceh Jaya are working together to reorganize and refurbish a closed clinic 5 Km from Meulaboh, a town of 120,000 on the far west coast of Aceh, Indonesia. The clinic is a walk-in primary care clinic and an urgent care center.
Our medical team discovered a 5 year old boy with a congenital cataract. That led to our speaking with Orbis (the flying eye hospital) doctors about a potential collaboration on the "cybersite" program. If we can establish this clinic with a well appointed, functioning operating theater, Orbis may be able to help us set up a satellite feed system whereby we can train local doctors to do basic eye surgery. We have a faculty member from UCLA in Ophthalmology willing to provide the training.
Eventually, this site will be a training center for doctors, nurses, and medical workers in many new skills to assist with referrals for patients unable to find more complex medical care locally.
We are seeking physician training partners, funds for operations, plus private and NGO partners who wish to provide an upgrade to the facility structure and infrastructure.
What is needed to support this work?
UPDATE: In Aceh we need $40,000 for the psychosocial program, and preschools.Donate
IBU4Jogja
IBU4Yogja has a team of 31 actively working each day to bring medical and psychosocial services to the survivors of the disasters in Yogjakarta. For Yogja, any money people can contribute for emergency shelter supplies, medicines, and food would be appreciated.
We are getting excellent assistance from HELP, Action Medeor and Benefiz from Germany, but need to keep working on the operations costs for management and the team of volunteers.