cfk oct-dec 2011 newsletter (eng)

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Partnering with the whole community to improve

the quality of their lives through holistic

transformation.

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 healthygrowth of the family, the

village and the natural

environment in which they

live.

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 animplementation approach that is in

line with the UN Convention on

the Rights of the Child whichasserts that every child has the

right to survival, development,

protection and participation,

without discrimination.

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 offeringassistance as they rebuild their

lives through the difficult

disaster recovery &

rehabilitation phases.

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 thatwe partner with, empowering

them to live out their lives in

line with their God given

potential.

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 naturalresources, empowering

them to have a vision and

hope for a better future.

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Quarterly Newsletter" Oct - Dec 2011

2 0 1 1 - 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 sayIts 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 chaosand heartbreak to the effected communities, it alsochallenges the responding aid organizations staff andresources. After responding to the 2009 PadangEarthquake and the 2010 Mentawai Tsunami, CFKwere showing signs of organizational fatigue. So in2011 it has been good to be able to devote time andenergy to our own organizational capacity building.We have improved our finance and administrationstandard operational procedures as well as upgradedour reporting systems and our media communications,including the development of our new web sitewww.cfk-indonesia.org

While May 2011 saw the sudden and unplannedclosure of CFKs Child Centered CommunityDevelopment Program in Aceh. This unjust andundemocratic decision has turned out to be a blessingin disguise. Very little program development wouldhave been achieved given the recent unrest andinsecure political environment in Aceh leading up tothe provincial elections.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all ofour hard working staff, our implementing partnersand financial contributors for your ongoing supportduring 2011.

Lynnette Johnson

Co-founder & Director

2011 Annual General Board

MeetingOn 17 December 2011, CFK held our 2011 Annual

General Board Meeting in Medan, North Sumatra.

The CFK team have been delivering Disaster

Response and Community Development

programs since 2005, initially as volunteers andthen from March 2006 - Dec 2008 in partnership

with another local non-profit organization,

Helping Hands Foundation.

In 2008 CFK (Cipta Fondasi Komunitas) was

established as a legal entity and officially became

a stand alone non-profit 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 office

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.

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 difficult 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.

Jl Teuku Umar 2B, Medan, North Sumatra - Indonesia Ph +62 61 4516003 www.cfk-indonesia.org

Celebrating CFKs third year as an officially

registered non-profit organization at the 2011

AGM.

CFKs Mentawai Team - Still smiling after

working in very difficult conditions for more

than a year to deliver Aid & Development

programs to the Mentawai tsunami survivors.
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Mentawai Island - Disaster Recovery Initiatives

Village Action Planing

The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surelyas haste leads to poverty. - ProverbsParticipatory 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

sector s 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 identified 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 dosomething 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).

Capacity Building Local Facilitators Assessing Literacy Levels

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

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(official 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 official (national) language is usually used in most adult learning settings in

Indonesia. Because of this, many speakers of minority ethnic languages experience learning difficulties

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 first capacity building a group of 10 local Mentawai facilitators who are

proficient 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 difficult 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.


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Childrens Rights & Early Childhood Education

Children through out the world - especially in

post-disaster and poverty effected areas, such asthe 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 MentawaiIslands 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.

Establishing Organic Agriculture Plots

Due to poor income levels, most people in the

Mentawai IDP Camps are living on less than $2.00per 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.

So CFKs organic agriculture program has a double

purpose, the first purpose which we aim to achieve

during this initial phase it is to improve nutrition

and food security by establishing organic FAITH

(Food Always In The House) Gardens to provide

additional vegetables for families living in each of

5 IDP camps as well as technical training on

organic farming methods and to increase

awareness on the benefits of environmentally

sustainable organic vegetable growing. To date

CFK have established two demonstration plots

with another one planned to be established during

the first quarter of 2012.

The second purpose of CFKs organic agriculture

program which is due to starting in June 2012, will

be to increase house hold income and create

sustainable market opportunities for the Mentawai

Islanders.

Training Village Health Volunteers

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 tsunamiand as yet has not been repaired.

CFKs health team have also been working

towards improved health and hygiene conditions

by providing ongoing capacity building trainings

to village health volunteers who are then

responsible for mobilizing their community to

have healthy individuals. healthy households and

a healthy environment.

Using the ToT (Training of Trainers) method,

CFKs medical personnel train the CFKs

Mentawai Facilitators and then mentor them to

deliver the trainings to the Village HealthVolunteer s in the Mentawai Language. A lot of

patience is required as it is often necessary to

repeat the trainings to ensure that the knowledge

and technical advice is being correctly transfered.

Organic agriculture development - implemented initially as a source of nutrition and

food security in the IDP Camps and eventually to generate additional family income.

Health is much broader than just the absence ofdisease. It concerns well-being in every area oflife: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual,economic and social, and recognizes that they areall inter-related. So, we must speak not just ofhealthy individuals but also of healthycommunities. - Tearfund

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