Mountain Villages in Black and White Ink

East Bali Poverty Project Children’s Art Exhibition and Sale at Three Monkeys Cuisine and Art Café in Ubud, opening 14 June 2009

Reproduced with permission of Bali Discovery Tours. http://www.balidiscovery.com

(5/30/2009) The stark profile of the volcanic mountains Agung and Abang dominate the work of the children of isolated Desa Ban, who have created images of "their Bali" in black & white Chinese ink. It is a Bali most viewers would attribute to the island 100 years ago. In these mountainside hamlets, where villagers eke out a subsistence living on steep slopes covered with volcanic sand during the eruption of Mt. Agung in 1963 that killed over 10,000 people, little has changed with time. Homes are still simple structures and the only water is collected from the roofs of their simple homes. East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) has brought new hope to the regions, with appropriate technology to bring water to the villages, and new schools that are bringing light back into the life of the young ones. Click here to see the complete article

EAST BALI POVERTY PROJECT FIELD REPORT 30 DECEMBER 2008, by Dr. Scott Younger OBE / EBPP Commissioner

Reproduced with permission from UP.DATE Britcham Magazine, edition of January 2009 page 35 - 36,

In July 2008, the project celebrated its first ten years activities. EBPP has come a long way in that period, from the first difficult days when David Booth MBE, the founder of the projects and its leader, first started to engange the people of Desa Ban, one of the largest villages in Indonesia located in northeast Bali on the remote side of Mount Agung and Abang. Desa Ban covers over 7,000 ha of steep and undulating mountain slopes, and is home to some 15,000 people in 19 separates communities, most of which did not cross communicate prior to EBPP's "parternship" with the village. Click here to see the complete article

"I FOUND MY DESTINY AMONG THE POOREST": Article about David Booth & EBPP in MillionaireAsia magazine, Issue 10, Volume 3, 2007, pages 114-118, website: www.millionaireasia.com

A successful British engineer at the prime of his life found a massive void in his life. He found his destiny helping a remote mountainous community in East Bali that was living in abject poverty. MillionaireAsia's Brian Yim took the very bumpy road to this vast village. Click here to see the complete article

CHILDREN'S ART BEYOND ALL EXPECTATIONS: East Bali Poverty Project & Bali Dynasty Resort Organise First Children's Art Exhibition, 18 April 2007

The East Bali Poverty Project art exhibition at the Bali Dynasty Resort reveals just how well the magic ingredients of East Bali Poverty Project's education programmes do work. Starting with their first lessons in hygiene, nutrition and being on the receiving end of a good healthy meal each day, not to mention the care and devotion of a loving and supporting community deeply involved in their own children's education, these lucky children have simply blossomed. The creativity and mastery of technique that their art reveals is far beyond that of the average child of their age. Each painting affords a delightful glimpse into Balinese rural life in the isolated villages high on the slopes between Mt. Agung and Mt. Abang. Click here to see the complete press release and children's art

THREE THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN SMILES - Greenspeak article at Bali Advertiser, 22^nd November 2006

The 22 November-6 December 2006 edition of the Bali Advertiser, a free newspaper for the expatriate community, featured an article of EBPP Dental Healthcare Programmes at Greenspeak colum. Click here to see the complete press release

EBPP & DAVID BOOTH WIN BANK DANAMON PIONEER AWARD FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT - 7^th November 2006

At the outset, the jury only planned for 5 category winners, but Ekoturin Foundation’s East Bali Poverty Project, which was founded by David John Booth, got a “Special Recognition Award” because of their outstanding service to open the isolated community of Desa Ban in East Bali. Not only that, David also was judged as rendering a service to empower the communities to release themselves from illiteracy, poverty and lack of access to welfare through building schools, health facilities and road infrastructure.

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MOBILE DENTAL CLINIC PROVIDES FIRST TIME DENTAL CARE FOR THOUSANDS OF UNDER-SERVED CHILDREN IN REMOTE EAST BALI - 6^th October 2006

Denpasar, Bali, 6th October 2006: East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) started providing comprehensive free dental health care on 6th October 2006 for the children of Ban village, Kubu Sub District, Karangasem Regency, one of the most isolated and under-served areas of Bali, with a fully equipped Mobile Denal Clinic. Click here to see the complete press release

BALI TRAVEL NEWS FEATURES TWO ARTICLES ABOUT EBPP AND ITS FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN, DAVID BOOTH MBE - 7^th September 2006

The 25 August - 7 September 2006 edition of Bali Travel News, and English language travel newspaper, featured the following articles about EBPP and David Booth MBE:

"Pengalusan Hamlet, Karangasem: The Other Side of Bali"

"David Booth MBE: Helping Alleviate the Burden of People in Abject Poverty"

BALI ADVERTISER FEATURES INTERVIEW WITH EBPP FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN DAVID BOOTH MBE - 4^th August 2006

The 02-16 August 2006 edition of the Bali Advertiser, a free newspaper for the expatriate community, featured an interview with EBPP founder David Booth MBE as part of its “Siapa…?” series of interviews with the interesting people of Bali by Al Hickey. Click here to see the interview

ON THE OCCASION OF THE LAUNCH OF "THE ART OF LEARNING BY DOING" AT LINDA GARLAND'S ESTATE, UBUD - September 2005

Ekoturin Foundation’s East Bali Poverty Project, established in July 1998 in response to a plea for help by an isolated mountain village of over two thousand families, with no water supply, roads or electricity, has focused upon education as the force to alleviate poverty. When the foundation was first conceived, most children in this isolated area of East Bali were malnourished and illiterate, and the nearest government schools and health clinics were two to five hours mountainous walk away. Interviews in late 1998 with over 1,000 families revealed a myriad of problems, yet when asked their most urgent need, the villagers requested “education for our children so that they can lead us to a better life and a self-sufficient future”.

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THE LAUNCH OF "THE ART OF LEARNING BY DOING" - September 2005

On 25th September, we will be launching "The Art of Learning by Doing", an educational art story book of 7 chapters about the lives of the children in East Bali Poverty Project’s (EBPP) schools in mountainous East Bali. This book, kindly sponsored by The Annika Linden Foundation, is a true story of the children from before they started school to when they graduated, and is illustrated by 103 full colour art works by the children themselves, 78 of the works by boys and 25 by girls. The story is in both English and Indonesian and designed as a resource book for children, parents and teachers with simple lessons on introducing health, nutrition, organic vegetable gardening and other life skills to children in practical, meaningful and enjoyable ways.

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