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

Wallace Line

Sabu