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United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Indonesian

USAID (For-profit organisation)
USAID discussing an initiation to clean water santiation

Oxfam - Indonesia

Oxfam Indonesia is a development and relief agency that helps people worldwide in the struggle against poverty. In Indonesia, Oxfam works directly with communities and partners in three major areas: improving the livelihoods of small-scale farmers and labourers; disaster relief and preparedness; and helping to shape government policies in favour of poor people and minorities.

Rumah Zakat

Rumah Zakat is an Indonesian NGO aiming to assist in achieving the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) through integrated community development programmes. The organisation runs the Big Smile of Indonesia campaign in addition to four “Smile” programmes in the areas of economic empowerment, health, education and environmental conservation.

All the organisation’s programmes are aimed at empowering the people who take part.

Mercy Huts - Train indigenous locals in hospitality and tourism in poverty stricken West Timor, Indonesia

Mercy Huts

Who are you trying to help? What issue are you trying to address?

Our goal is to help the communities of the Delha region in Rote Island, West Timor in Indonesia.

We are wanting to ready this community who are stricken with poverty and a very low level of health facilities and education, for the rapid increase in tourism that is happening at the moment.
What is your project and how will it help?

The project is Mercy Huts located in West Timor Indonesia.

Trade After Aid - Indonesia: Coffee Kids supports rebuilding of coffee farmers community

Sustain Sumatra is a new program for building sustainable trade and directly helping those whose lives were devastated by the Tsunami. It was formed in September 2005 as a coalition of Indonesian, American and European partners.

Coffee Kids partners with private sector to rebuild coffee farmers' community in Indonesia Whole latte love and Reliefweb

Kopernik in Manado: Self-Adjustable Glasses

Kopernik is an on-line marketplace of innovative, life-changing technologies designed for the developing world.

Distribution of self-adjustable glasses in Manado, Indonesia. This video is about another project done by Kopernik to distribute self-adjustable glasses to poor communities in Manado.

Prof Anna Nekaris' Little Fireface Project, saving the slow loris via ecology, education, empowerment

Slow lorises are a unique group of primates found throughout South and Southeast Asia. Their vice-like grip, snake-like movements, shy nature, and most remarkably, their venomous bite, make them unique amongst the primates. They also are to many people undeniably adorable, and to others, nature’s answer to over 100 diseases. Their slow movements make them easy prey to expert hunters who literally empty the forests of these shy primates – amongst the most common mammals seen in Asia’s illegal animal markets, but amongst the rarest spotted even in Asia’s best protected forests.