Quarterly Newsletter"

Oct - Dec 2011

Partnering with the whole community to improve the quality of their lives through holistic transformation.

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" Disaster Response, Recovery & Rehabilitation

Disaster does not discriminate amongst the rich and the poor, everyone is impacted. CFK provides emergency aid to all disaster victims and then continues to come alongside the poorest and most isolated communities offering assistance as they rebuild their lives through the difcult disaster recovery & rehabilitation phases.

Community Transformation
Reducing poverty is not just about implementing quality development programs, CFK also works towards enabling communities to see the value in the sustainable use of their natural resources, empowering them to have a vision and hope for a better future.

Holistic Participation
CFK adopts a holistic, integrated approach which promotes the participation of the whole community. In this way the well being of each person - who by nature is a physical, thinking, emotional, spiritual being - is impacted by the healthy growth of the family, the village and the natural environment in which they live.

Capacity Building Local Communities

By providing capacity building trainings to the local people, enabling them to better understand and manage their own economic, health, education and governance needs - CFK aims to leaves a sustainable legacy in the communities that we partner with, empowering them to live out their lives in line with their God given potential.

UN Millennium Goals For Development & Child Rights

CFK advocates the UN Millennium Goals for Development, a set of eight targets were agreed upon which aim to halve world poverty by 2015.! CFK also adopts an implementation approach that is in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which asserts that every child has the right to survival, development, protection and participation, without discrimination.

2 0 11 - A V E R Y G O O D Y E A R

As 2011 draws to a close, we look back over the events, the highlights and challenges and all in all we can say On 17 December 2011, CFK held our 2011 Annual General Board Meeting in Medan, North Sumatra. Its been a very good year - full of blessings. 2011 was a blessing because there were no major disasters in the area. A disaster not only brings chaos and heartbreak to the effected communities, it also challenges the responding aid organizations staff and resources. After responding to the 2009 Padang Earthquake and the 2010 Mentawai Tsunami, CFK were showing signs of organizational fatigue. So in 2011 it has been good to be able to devote time and energy to our own organizational capacity building. We have improved our nance and administration standard operational procedures as well as upgraded our reporting systems and our media communications, including the development of our new web site www.cfk-indonesia.org While May 2011 saw the sudden and unplanned closure of CFKs Child Centered Community Development Program in Aceh. This unjust and undemocratic decision has turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Very little program development would have been achieved given the recent unrest and insecure political environment in Aceh leading up to the provincial elections. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our hard working staff, our implementing partners and nancial contributors for your ongoing support during 2011.

2011 Annual General Board Meeting

The CFK team have been delivering Disaster Response and Community Development programs since 2005, initially as volunteers and then from March 2006 - Dec 2008 in partnership with another local non-prot organization, Helping Hands Foundation. In 2008 CFK (Cipta Fondasi Komunitas) was established as a legal entity and ofcially became a stand alone non-prot organization. Since then CFK have implemented Community Development programs in Calang located in Aceh Province as well as Disaster Response and Rehabilitation programs in Padang and Mentawai Islands, both in West Sumatra Province. CFK have also established a head ofce in Medan, North Sumatra Province. The event was attended by CFKs Board of Directors, Senior Management and Technical Advisors as well as several of CFKs original founders.

CFKs Mentawai Team - Still smiling after working in very difcult conditions for more than a year to deliver Aid & Development programs to the Mentawai tsunami survivors.

Mentawai Islands...
one year after the tsunami.
October 25, 2011 commemorated one year a tsunami devastated parts of the west coast of the Mentawai Island, over 500 people lost their lives and close to 11,000 people were left homeless and moved to IDP (Internally Displaced People) camps. Through out 2011 CFK have continued to come alongside the tsunami survivors from 5 hamlets as they have struggled to adapt to a new life in the IDP camp locations - one year on they are still waiting for government permits to be approved for their permanent resettlement sites. Most of the IDP camps (and proposed resettlement sites) are located along difcult to access muddy tracks that are many kilometers inland from their original coastal villages. CFKs desires to empower the tsunami survivors to be able to address their own rehabilitation and development needs by capacity building local Mentawai facilitators enabling them to deliver trainings and information to the effected communities in the local language. 1

Lynnette Johnson Co-founder & Director

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Celebrating CFKs third year as an ofcially registered non-prot organization at the 2011 AGM.

Mentawai Island - Disaster Recovery Initiatives

Village Action Planing Capacity Building Local Facilitators Assessing Literacy Levels

The plans of the diligent lead to prot as surely as haste leads to poverty. - Proverbs
Participatory village planning is the foundation on which CFKs Mentawai Disaster Recovery Program is being built. It is not our desire to implement a humanitarian disaster relief program that leaves the affected communities as passive dependents of hand outs and aid from outsiders. Rather, CFK desire to come alongside the tsunami survivors, enabling them - where ever possible to be active participants in planing and bringing about their own recovery process. During the period Oct - Dec 2011, CFK successfully mobilized the community members from 3 of our 5 focus hamlets that are still living in the IDP (Internally Displaced People) camps to hold one day workshop attended by representatives from all sectors with in their community. Each hamlet was able to come up a collective statement representing their collective dreams (vision) for the future of their village. They then identied all the areas that still needed to be developed which included Health, Education, Income Generation and Social/ Cultural issues and formed their village action plans based on the priority given to each of the issues and their ability to access available resources. In this way, the tsunami survivors can focus their energies on the things that they can do something about instead of being overwhelmed by all of the post tsunami needs, many of which are beyond their ability to address - such as building major infrastructure including new bridges, roads and public buildings). 2!

In November, CFK together with our implementing partner SIL conducted a literacy assessment to ascertain the level of literacy in the local Mentawai (mother tongue) language and the Indonesian (ofcial national) language - which is quite different than the mother tongue. Learning is most effective when instruction is received in the language the learner knows best (mother tongue) however the ofcial (national) language is usually used in most adult learning settings in Indonesia. Because of this, many speakers of minority ethnic languages experience learning difculties when participating in educational and vocational training programs. CFKs experience in delivering community capacity building trainings has proven that, where ever possible, the language of instruction should be in the mother tongue. As such, on the Mentawai Islands, CFK have adopted a TOT (Training Of Trainers) approach coupled with ongoing mentoring in order to deliver effective, sustainable capacity building trainings to isolated villages in the local Mentawai language. This is being achieved through rst capacity building a group of 10 local Mentawai facilitators who are procient in both the local Mentawai language and in the national Indonesian language. They are currently being trained to facilitate Village Action Planning (Good Governance), Community Health & Hygiene Improvement, Organic Agriculture Development as well as Early Childhood & Education Development. Under the mentorship of CFKs senior staff, CFKs Mentawai Facilitators then translate the training materials into the Mentawai language utilizing a simple formats and graphics that are suitable for the village context. CFKs Mentawai Facilitators then deliver the trainings to the village communities utilizing the Mentawai language. While this method is slower and much more difcult to achieve than simply having outsiders come and provide short trainings in the national Indonesian language, CFK continues to utilize this method as the results are more sustainable and empowering to the local community because knowledge and skills are better understood and retained at the local level which in turn better enables communities to meet their own development needs and transform their villages.

Literacy programs are indispensable because literacy is a necessary skill in itself and the foundation of other life skills. Literacy in the mother tongue strengthens cultural identity and heritage." - World Declaration on Education for All. Jomtien, 1990

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Organic agriculture development - implemented initially as a source of nutrition and food security in the IDP Camps and eventually to generate additional family income.
Childrens Rights & Early Childhood Education Establishing Organic Agriculture Plots Training Village Health Volunteers

Children through out the world - especially in post-disaster and poverty effected areas, such as the Mentawai Islands - continue to suffer from neglect, poor or no education, a lack of recreational and development resources as well as little recognition for the role they play in their families and communities. Development is one of the foundational rights of the UN Convention On The Rights of the Child with all children having the right to develop and have access to quality education. CFK advocates a child rights based approach to education which integrates the right of development with those of survival, protection and participation. On the Mentawai Islands, CFK is raising awareness of the UN Convention On The Rights of the Child as well as the importance of Early Childhood Education & Development. By raising awareness levels amongst our local Mentawai Facilitators, parents, teachers and the education department to not just focus on increasing the number of schools or children being educated but to also be concerned with creating an environment that develops and transforms the child holistically - physically, mentally, socially, emotionally, spiritually and morally. CFK aims to enable communities on the Mentawai Islands to create safe, child-friendly environments where children have a positive sense of their own worth, are cared for, protected and can experience the joy of growing and learning.

Due to poor income levels, most people in the Mentawai IDP Camps are living on less than $2.00 per day. They dont have any regular food source because the IDP camps are located in the middle of the jungle many kilometers from the tsunami survivors original villages and even if they had the cash they can not easily purchase food as no markets have been established in the camps. The closest market is in the main port of Sikakap which is many kilometers away with limited transport options. In the meant time most of the islands fresh fruit, vegetables, chicken and eggs are imported at high cost from the mainland 100 km away as little to no marketable produce is actually grown on the islands.

Health is much broader than just the absence of disease. It concerns well-being in every area of life: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, economic and social, and recognizes that they are all inter-related. So, we must speak not just of healthy individuals but also of healthy communities. - Tearfund

During this program quarter, CFK have continued to provide regular mobile medical clinics in an attempt to meet the health needs of the Mentawi tsunami survivors living in IDP camps in the Pagai Utara area. The communities living in these camps still have limited access to medical facilities as many have limited to no transport options, there is no public transport to and from the IDP camps and the main bridge has been down since the tsunami So CFKs organic agriculture program has a double and as yet has not been repaired. purpose, the rst purpose which we aim to achieve CFKs health team have also been working during this initial phase it is to improve nutrition towards improved health and hygiene conditions and food security by establishing organic FAITH by providing ongoing capacity building trainings (Food Always In The House) Gardens to provide to village health volunteers who are then additional vegetables for families living in each of responsible for mobilizing their community to 5 IDP camps as well as technical training on have healthy individuals. healthy households and organic farming methods and to increase a healthy environment. awareness on the benets of environmentally sustainable organic vegetable growing. To date Using the ToT (Training of Trainers) method, CFK have established two demonstration plots with another one planned to be established during CFKs medical personnel train the CFKs Mentawai Facilitators and then mentor them to the rst quarter of 2012. deliver the trainings to the Village Health Volunteers in the Mentawai Language. A lot of The second purpose of CFKs organic agriculture program which is due to starting in June 2012, will patience is required as it is often necessary to repeat the trainings to ensure that the knowledge be to increase house hold income and create sustainable market opportunities for the Mentawai and technical advice is being correctly transfered. Islanders. 3

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