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Quarterly Report & Newsletter
April - June 2012
Committed To Training & Mentoring Local Language Facilitators
CFK are committed to training and capacity building Indonesian field workers, enabling them to deliver
effective disaster preparation & response programs as well as development initiatives that are holistic,
integrated, sustainable and trulytransform the communities in which we serve.While some level of
development is starting to be
achieved in Indonesias
industrialized cities, with a
population of over 230 million
people, this nation is still
struggling to alleviate poverty
and attain justice for all
especially in the isolated rural
villages and amongst the urbanpoor.
Poverty is a pronounced
deprivation of well-being, poor
people in Indonesia - and other
countries - are particularly
vulnerable due to poor health,
low education, lack of facilities
and infrastructure. They are
often effected by adverse eventsoutside their control such as
natural disaster and social
political manipulation. They
have little opportunity to
express their opinions or have
any real voice in decisions that
effect their well-being.
Indonesia is also geographically
vulnerable to a high risk ofnatural disasters, 27% of the
worlds active volcanos are
located in this nation which is
made up of over 17,000 islands.
Floods, landslides and
earthquakes occur regularly, but
the one of the biggest risks due
to the intense pressure that is
constantly building up on the
tectonic plates that lie beneath
Indonesias oceans - this means
that the threat of another
devastating tsunami is alwayson the horizon.
Indonesia's large population and
rapid industrialization also
present serious environmental
issues including large-scale
deforestation and over-
exploitation of marine and
natural resources. Environment
issues are often given a lowerpriority due to pressing poverty
related issues and ineffectual
local governance.
Unfortunately, training facilities
to educate and capacity build
people in Community
Development and Humanitarian
Aid are generally located
outside of Indonesia in moredeveloped countries. These
facilities are not easily
accessible to the majority of
Indonesian national field
workers. Financial restraints,
language barriers and visa
requirements all inhibit most
Indonesian workers from having
the opportunity to improve their
capacities and become leaders
in the development of their own
communities.
CFK is currently developing a
Pilot Program for a Training
Course & Internship. This
training course will enable
Indonesian national workers to
gain theory and practical
expertise that is in line with
international standards. The
Training Course and Internship
is aimed at empowering them tomeet the challenge of Disaster
Response, Poverty Alleviation
and Advocating to attain justice
for all. After completing the
training and internship these
Indonesian workers will have a
better understanding and be
more equipped to take
responsibility in finding
solutions as well asimplementing initiatives that
meet their own disaster relief
and development needs.
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Partnering with the COMMUNITY to transform their LIVESthroughholisticcommunity development & disaster response.
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With so many disaster recovery and
rehabilitation issues to focus on, the
rights and needs of children are
often overlooked or given a lesser
priority.
To ensure that children are not
only considered but are activelyengaged, CFK are adopting a
Child Rights approach in
delivering our Mentawai Tsunami
Recovery Initiatives. As well as
advocating to establish early
childhood development facilities
such as Kindergartens and Well
Baby Clinics in the IDP
(Internally Displaced People)
Camps, over the past 6 months
CFK has also been working
alongside the elementary age
children to improve the quality of
their lives and help them adapt to
their new living environment.
Program activities were aimed atbuilding the childrens awareness
of a healthier lifestyle and a
healthy environment. This has
been achieved by involving the
children in CFKs organic
agriculture initiative, through
growing their own vegetables the
children have learned about
personal hygiene, sanitation and
nutrition as well as the
importance of protecting their
natural environment. At the end
of the school term, the children
participated in evaluating the
program activities. They gave
input on what they had learned
and what they liked about the
program as well as how they
thought the program could be
improved. They also offered
their ideas on the types of future
after school activities they would
like to be involved in, their ideas
included a community library,
rubbish recycling, sporting
activities as well as dance and
music lessons.
Mona and Yesi (pictured right) are two of CFKs local language facilitators, together they
have been working in the Child Rights Sector.Mona (left) who is originally form the Mentawai Island of Seiberut, says Working
in CFKs Childrens Sector has been full of new experineces for me as I have had
the opportunity to learn about project management and team work as well as child
rights, participation and protection. Ive really enjoyed working with the children,
its so rewarding because all of the children are so eager to join the activities.
Before the tsunami their villages were in very isolated locations where the children
had limited access to join in creative activities, in fact many children did not attend
school as their villages did not even have a school. Now all of the children have
access to a school, even though the facilities and teachers are limited. CFKs
elementary school activities has helped to inspire the children, Im amazed at the changes that are taking placein them, they are healthier as their hygiene habits are changing, they are becoming so creative and are full of
new ideas about activities that they want to have in their next after school activity program.!
Quarterly Report & Newsletter April - June 2012
Mentawai Islands - Tsunami Recovery Initiative
Engaging Children In Disaster Recovery
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The CFK team continue to work
towards improving the community
health conditions of the tsunami
survivors living in the IDP (Internally
Displaced People) Camps. The
lack of a permanent clean water
supply is still a problem which
impacts the hygiene and sanitation
situation and access to medical
facilities is still limited. However,
working on the old adage that
prevention is better than cure,
CFK have been providing
awareness building in the IDP
camps to improve the overall
health, hygiene and nutrition of the
people. To improve the pre and
post natal care of children and
mothers, CFK have also been
providing capacity building
training to the traditional
midwives and village healthvolunteers as well as advocating to
the Dept. of Health to provide a
monthly Well Baby Clinics at
each IDP Camp.
In May 2012, CFK facilitated
Family Health Promotion Days at
3 of the IDP Camp locations. with
competitions, a health quiz,
entertainment, a puppet show and
prizes. The Promotion Day was
attended by over 70% of the
village members who had a great
fun family day that really boosted
the moral in the IDP Camps.
Competitions included The Best
Menu based on nutrition, taste and
the use of locally grown organic
produce and The Healthiest Babies
(per age group) based on national
standards for height & weight,
physical response,
maneuverability, immunization
and regular attendance at the Well
Baby Clinics.
Reda & Noel (pictured left) are two of CFKs local language facilitators, they
have been working in CFKs Community Health Development Sector.
Reda (far left) has been working with CFK since the tsunami, she says
I never get bored working with CFK, every day I learn something new
about community development and every day I also learn something
new about my own personal development. As a CFK facilitator I have
been helping to deliver Community Health awareness sessions in the
Mentawai language. Using the local language is really helpful
because it makes it easier for the community members to understand
the materials. Ive really enjoyed working with the Traditional Birthing Women, seeing them learn and
then use the new techniques that are safer and more hygienic has been a blessing for all of the mothers and
babies in the IDP camps. I am so happy working here because the CFK team has become my extended
family, we really care about each other and the people in the communities where we work.
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Quarterly Report & Newsletter April - June 2012
Mentawai Islands - Tsunami Recovery Initiative
Dealing With Community Health Challenges In DisasterRecovery
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The Mentawai peoples traditional
diet consists of fish, bananas and a
starchy root vegetable called tallas.
After the tsunami the people were
moved from their costal villages to
inland IDP (Internally Displaced
People) Camps in the middle of thejungle. It is planned that they will re-
build new villages at these new
inland locations.
CFK have been working
alongside the tsunami survivors
teaching them how to grow their
own vegetables using
environmentally sustainable
organic methods. CFK initially
sent a group of local Mentawai
facilitators to Java Island to be
trained as trainers in organic
vegetable growing. In this way
these Mentawai facilitators have
been able to provide trainings to
the tsunami survivors in the local
Mentawai language, which isquite different to the national
Indonesian language.
CFKs local Mentawai facilitators
have since established a small
organic vegetable demonstration
plot near our office where they
first try out the new techniques
before taking them into the
villages. They have also
successfully mentored the tsunami
survivors to establish their own
organic vegetable demonstration
plots at 2 of the IDP Camps.
Now men, women and even the
children are enjoying growing
their own vegetables. CFK planto start to introduce chicken and
fish farming trainings at the
demonstration plots. Also as the
tsunami survivors start to build
and move into their new
permanent home sites, CFK plans
to help them to further establish
vegetable farming and animal
husbandry to supplement their
household incomes.
The boys from CFKs Organic Agriculture Team are pictured with some of
the women from the IDP Camp at Km 8, who have been learning toestablish organic FAITH (Food Always In The House) Gardens.
Binsar (back row, second from left) is one of CFKs local
Mentawai language facilitators, he says Im so blessed to be able
to work with CFK, because at CFK I can keep growing and
learning. I feel like Ive gone back to school - but at the same time
Im working so I can provide for my family. One of the best things
is that I am now able to help other Mentawai people because I can
teach them everything Im learning about organic agriculture.
Before I started working with CFK I couldnt see any opportunities
for me or my family here on the Mentawai Islands, but now every where I look I see there are opportunities,God has done his part and provided everything we need, so if we want to prosper its now up to us to do our
part. My dream is to establish an organic agriculture training center right here on the Mentawai Islands.!
Quarterly Report & Newsletter April - June 2012
Mentawai Islands - Tsunami Recovery Initiative
Tackling Food Security & Livelihood Development In Disaster Recover
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One of the most beneficial post
disaster initiatives that CFK has
implemented is to help the effected
communities bring order out of the
chaos and destruction.
Most disaster survivors are so
over whelmed by their personallosses that they have difficulty in
think about the mountain of
rehabilitation issues that need to
be consider so that they can start
getting their lives back into order.
They have lost their family
members, their homes, their
livelihoods and often dont have
the will to try to start all over
again.
In the Mentawai Islands where
prior to a disaster the people were
already living in chronic poverty
recovering from the disaster has
been very challenging. The
people usually live from season to
season, only focusing on trying to
meet their own personal and
family needs, they do not have
much experience in coordinating,
planning and working together for
the good of the whole community.
If disaster response and
rehabilitation initiatives are not
handled correctly, initiatives that
are intended to have a positive
impact can create negative
situations such as aid dependency
and feuds amongst the disaster
survivors. On the Mentawai
Islands, CFK have been working
alongside the disaster survivors
facilitating participatory village
planning workshops and
coordination meetings. In this
way all of the disaster survivors
have the opportunity to voice their
opinions, identify their resources
and prioritize their needs. They
are empowered to be active
participants in finding solutions to
their rehabilitation problems.
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Quarterly Report & Newsletter April - June 2012
Mentawai Islands - Tsunami Recovery Initiative
Participatory Village Plaining In Disaster Recovery
Neldi and Gonggom (pictured right) are two of CFKs local language facilitators,together they have been working in the Village Planning Sector.
Neldi (far right) says Village Planning is crucial in developing the local
communities and CFKs Training of Trainers method has been very effective as
all of the programs are delivered in the local Mentawai language, now instead
of just a few people making all the decisions, the whole village can participate
in the village planning process - they really appreciate that CFK have made it
possible for their voices to be heard when important village decisions are being
made. On a personal level, Neldi says I have really changed since I
started working with CFK, I have learned so much about being responsible, team work, about facilitating
community development and breaking poverty cycles. I am amazed that our village elders now come to me forguidance and I can contribute positive advice to them. I am so grateful to God and CFK for the opportunity to
help bring about a positive transformation in the lives of my people here in the Mentawai Islands.