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Dieter Mack

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Office: Jalan Supratman 57 Bandung-40114 Telepon/Fax: 62-22-705527

Background
According to the BPS (Central Office of Statistics), the amount of poor people in Indonesia is about 78, 9 million. But if we look at the equivalent of the exchange value of rice (kg/person/year), then the amount is already 116 million people. If the condition of our national economy does not improve, a rise of the amount of poor people will be unavoidable and the suffering of these will be even more.
Departin from this reality, "Bandung Peduli" intends to intensify its frequency of initiatives and also would like to add new projects, especially to help those people who are living below the line of poverty and that are even threatened by starvation. It is hoped that the new program will help to ease the fate of some hungry people in Indonesia, especially those who live in Bandung and its surroundings.
The focus of "Bandung Peduli"'s activities is targeted at some 10.430 people in Bandung area who are threatened by starvation. These are people with a monthly spending per kapita below 15.000 Rupiah (US $ 1 /month). The second target are some 37.995 people with a monthly spending between 15.000 and 20.000 Rupiah (US $ 1 - 1,5 /month). The third target are about 248.686 people were the similar range is between 20.000 and 30.000 Rupiah (US $ 1,5 - 2/month) in Bandung district and aditionally 28.892 people in Bandung capital.
Nevertheless one has to take into account the limited ability and capacity of "Bandung Peduli" that is only able to take care of about 1000 families (i.e. about 5000 people) each month or about 60.000 threatened people in a year.

Target
1. Short Term: To ease the suffering of hungry people
2. Middle Term: To avoid and minimize the social impacts of a starvation disaster.
3. Long Term: To avoid the decline of the human quality of Indonesians.

Programs/Events
1. Research on poverty
2. Providing of "sembako", especially rice ("sembako" is an acronym refering to the main nine food elements a human being needs).
3. Distribution of "sembako"
4. The foundation of "Warung Peduli" (see below)
5. The increase of nutrition quality of the families
6. The development of economic potential in the villages
7. A campaign to activate more people to help the needy others
8. Training of volunteers
9. Training of journalists in reporting about poverty and starvation