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NEWSLETTERJuly - Sept 2011 Quarterly Activity Report
COMMUNITY HEALTH & MEDICAL SERVICES...CFK continues to focus on improving medical services and improving
the community health conditions of the Mentawai tsunami survivors.
In June 2011, CFK conducted a
C o m m u n i t y H e a l t h S u r v e y &Assessment involving the community
members, government institutions and
non-government organizations (NGO)
working on the Mentawai Islands of
North & South Pagai. The villages
located on the west coast of these two
islands were devastated by a tsunami
on 25 October 2011.
One of the major issues needing to
be addressed is improving access to
scheduled medical services. Poor
infrastructure and high transport cost
makes it difficult for the villages to
travel (by sea or road) to the
government clinics (Puskesmas) in the
main towns. It will take some time to
improve the transport & infrastructure,
so CFK!s Health Sector Team are
implementing several program activities
to help improve the community health
situation for the short term.
One of CFK!s activities is to bring
medical services to the villages byproviding mobile medical clinics
implemented in partnership with GKPM
(Christ ian) Cl inic and Pastoran
(Catholic) Clinic.
To improve pre & post natal care
and decrease infantile mortality levels,CFK are also partnering with the
Government Clinic (Puskesmas) and
over the next 12 months will provide
ongoing capacity building training!s to
the government allocated midwives
who live in, or near the remote villages
and tsunami survivors IDP (Internally
Displaced People) camps.
The local Mentawai people are also
accustom to seeking medical and
birthing assistance from traditional
village healers (dukun bayi), as such
over the next 12 months CFK will also
work together with the midwives hat are
being trained to provide further capacity
building training on sterilization,
hygiene and safe birthing practices to
the traditional village healers (using
Train the Trainer methods, in the local
Mentawai language).
The wise old saying "prevention is
better than cure! still hold true, so CFK
are currently mobilizing Village HealthVolunteers who will be trained to deliver
health, nutrition & hygiene awareness
building to the boarder community and
in elementary schools.
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CFKs Health Team, including
Technical Advisor Dr. Karen
Alford, are pictured above
providing mobile medicalClinics to tsunami
survivors. Between 50-70
patients are attended to at
each visit.
Partnering with the community to improve the quality of their lives through
transformational & holistic development and disaster response
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The Mentawai Islands could produce an abundance oftheir daily nutritional needs themselves, the sea is full of fish
and the soil with a little help could be very fertile. However,
apart from bananas, some other seasonal fruits and talas(a
starchy root vegetable), the local community is dependent
upon importing expensive food products & produce from the
mainland. Vegetables, rice, egg!s, milk, chickens all arrive
from the mainland on the weekly ferry boat that arrives in the
main port of Sikakap.
However these supplies are inaccessible for most of the
tsunami survivor!s as they have little, or no income to
purchase the produce and catching a feed of fresh ocean
fish for dinner is also a thing of the past since the IDP
Camps are, for the most part, more than a days walk inland
from their old coastal villages.
To improve food security to the IDP!
s and developsustainable accessible sources of nutrition, CFK is training
and mentoring a group of 9 local Mentawai Facilitators.
Using a Train the Trainers (ToT) approach, the local
Mentawai facilitators are being capacity built in the basic
Organic Farming Techniques including; Organic Vegetable
Growing - Site Selection & Preparation, Seedbed
Production, Organic Fertilizers & Pest Control, Freshwater
Fish, Chicken & Duck Farming and Home Industry
Production of Soya Bean Products such as Tofu, Tempe and
Soy-milk.
CFK!s local Mentawai Facilitators have been practicing
and refining their facilitation skills in preparation for
delivering Organic Farming Capacity Building Training's to
the broader community in the local Mentawai language.
CFKs local Mentawai
Facilitators returned
home to the Mentawai
Islands full of hope and
vision, they are
determination to make a
difference to the lives
of the tsunami victims
after participating inan Organic Farming
Capacity Building
Training held at LP3O in
Bogor, Java (left &
below).
ORGANIC AGRICULTURE.......Food security and nutrition are also a major concerns for the Mentawai tsunami survivors. Many who have been moved from
their coastal villages to start a new life at inland relocation sites where, at the moment, there are no accessible markets to
meet their daily needs and they now preparing to clearing the land to plant new crops to provide food for their families.
TRAINING THE TRAINERS
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However there is much work to be done
before these new locations can be called
homes. Firstly the infrastructure needs to beimproved, in some areas the roads are little
more than mud tracks and with the onset of the
rainy season are often impassable, bridges need
rebuilding, permanent houses and public
buildings need to be built, clean water sources
and sanitation facilities need to provided, crops
need to be planted, and markets need to be
established.
Due to limited funding resources, CFK is
currently focusing most of our Mentawai Island
Tsunami Recovery Program efforts in the 5 sub-villages that have been relocated to IDP Camps
between km 5 - 14 on Pagai Utara. These
include Sabeugunggung, Muntei, Barubaru,
Bulakmonga, and Raumonga sub-villages.
CFK!s Local Government Capacity Building
Team are coming alongside these 5 sub-
villages, mobilizing them to develop their own
one year Village Recovery & Action Plans.
CFK intend to help the villages achieve this
by facilitating a series of participatory village
planning workshops where they will identify and
prioritize the most urgent rehabilitation needs.
CFK will then mentor the sub-villages leaders to
start implementing, monitoring and evaluating
their Village Action Plans.
CFK originally chose to focus in these 5 sub-
villages as most of the other NGO!s were
focusing their efforts on Pagai Selatan Island,
however while there are still many recovery and
rehabilitation needs to be met, it is anticipated
that by December 2011 most of the
humanitarian aid organizations will have
completed their tsunami recovery programs and
left the Pagai Selatan area. Many aid agencies
say they are experiencing difficulty sourcing
ongoing funding to meet the rehabilitation needs
on the Mentawai Islands.
CAPACITY BUILDING
LOCAL LEADERS &
VILLAGE
PLANNING.....It is almost 12 months since the
October 25, 2010 Mentawai Island
tsunami. Most of the tsunami survivors
have been relocated inland to IDP (Internally
Displaced People) Camps, which are to be
their new permanent village sites, located
10 - 40 km from the main port of Sikakap
and in most cases more than a days walk
from their old costal villages.
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Can you briefly explain your interest and motivation for
working in Education Development in Indonesia?
It is often said that children are worth investing in
because they are our future leaders. While this is true I
believe that children also have the ability to make positive
contributions to their communities today. Each one of us,
children and adults alike, have such unique, God given
potential that when encouraged and developed, enables
each individual to contribute their skills and talents to the
community in which they live. Working in education
development enables me to share my skills, abilities and
experiences with parents, teachers and community members
to equip them with skills and understanding about education
and child development. My motivation lies in seeing
communities realize the value and potential of each of its
members, including children, and everyone playing their partas active participants in enriching their community.
Can you explain briefly about of the UN Convention on
the Rights of the Child?
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted
in 1989, is the most widely ratified human rights treaty
developed out of the Human Rights Charter. It
acknowledges that while every individual has inherent, basic
rights, children are particularly vulnerable and have specific
rights that recognize their special need for care and
protection. The Convention outlines the important role offamilies, communities, organisations and governments in
realising these rights so that all children thrive and have the
full opportunity to become productive members of society. It
sets a standard of protecting the rights of children in all
areas of life including civil, political, economic, health, social
and cultural spheres and asserts that every child has the
right to survival, development, protection and participation,
without discrimination.
How does the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
impact NGO!
s working in Indonesia?While the Indonesian government has ratified the CRC,
realizing the rights of children in Indonesia can only be
achieved when all of society works together in fulfilling them.
NGO!s play an important role in partnering with the
community to help achieve these standards and in taking on
a "rights based! approach that focus on improving the
position of children within their community. In practical ways
it means listening to the opinions of children in designing
and implementing programs and including them as active
agents of change and not just passive beneficiaries. It
requires developing policies and procedures that provide a
safe environment for children to participate in programs. In
order for children to be able to enjoy their rights fully they
need to live in communities that are aware of and respect
their rights. Therefore, part of CFK!s role is to build
community awareness and develop holistic programs that
empower duty bearers to be responsible, and capable of
protecting and fulfilling the rights of children in their
community.
How does the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
impact your work in Education Development?
Education and development is one of the foundational
rights of the Convention with all children having the right to
develop and have access to quality education. However,
when influenced by the CRC an education program does notjust focus on increasing the number of schools or children
being educated but is concerned with creating an
environment that develops the child holistically; physically,
mentally, socially, emotionally, spiritually and morally. A
"rights based! approach integrates the right of development
with those of survival, protection and participation by
partnering with parents, educators, education
departments and the children themselves
to develop child-centered teaching
techniques that encourage students
to participate and express theiropinions as well as to create safe,
child-friendly environments where
children are protected.
CHILDHOOD & EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT.....Carolyn Shearer is CFKs Technical Advisor to education development programs and has been working with CFK since
2008. In this interview Carolyn, who is originally from Australia, shares about the importance of upholding the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child and how this impacts her work in education development.
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