AOMAA - IBU4Aceh Partnership
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The Tsunami has affected all the earth in a major way.
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Since the tsunami, starting December 28, 2004, AOMAA has worked to
provide capacity building and technical advice to a group of talented,
young Indonesian physicians, nurses, psychologists, teachers, managers,
logisticians, program development officers, and support administrative
staff. From the original core group of 11 doctors and 50 volunteers who
started working in Meulaboh, Aceh, on January 1, 2005, we assisted in
the formation of a highly functioning, highly ethical, professional,
local non-profit organization called IBU4Aceh. The IBU Foundation website: http://ibu-foundation.or.id/main.php |
They have provided: primary medical care, psychosocial support and counseling, preschool programs with integrated psychological counseling, community events, livelihood project development, village health worker training, vaccine campaigns for measles and polio in collaboration with UNICEF, triage for high risk pregnant women, coverage of abandoned public health centers, rural village outreach mobile medical teams, data collection and project referral, collaboration with UN and BRR government organizing committees, facilitation of UNICEF programs, collaboration with international NGOs, etc., etc.
NEW ~ Greetings from the IBU4Aceh Team - their photos & names!
Ibu4Aceh Report, Dec. 2005
Photo Galleries from Aceh:
Ibu4Aceh Doctors and Patients Misc. Gallery Map of Meulaboh, in the Aceh region of Sumatra
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IBU4Aceh Team:
Indonesian Handicapped Association
AOMAA serves as an advocate and fundraising organization for the Indonesian Handicapped Association, LPPI. Based in South Jakarta behind Fatmawati Hospital, the 20 year old non-profit organization is led by Board of Directors President, Maz Inung, a journalist, radio and tv news announcer and talk show host, and wheelchair tennis champion in the Australian handicapped games.
LPPI's handicapped volunteer team is building wheelchairs and providing psychosocial and spiritual support for tsunami survivors in Aceh. Independently, they build tough, custom wheel chairs that will negotiate the broken streets of Jakarta, Bogor and other cities, and rural country roads. Working with special pipes and special wheels they customize the chairs to fit the recipient based on their size and body conformation. They are working to replace mobility equipment that was swept away or destroyed in the tsunami and provide opportunities for people who lost limbs in the aftermath to be able to get around and work.
Maz Inung, who has been in Aceh most of 2005, and his team are able to use government commodity storage facilities all over Indonesia as sites to assemble these personalized, street tough wheelchairs that cost approximately $150 each and last a lifetime. They are seeking funding partners who will assist in these worthy goals.
We are especially happy to have donations earmarked in support of their "custom wheel chair" building program. In addition, we advocate for their psychosocial program to help tsunami survivors already traumatized, who later lost limbs from the damage and infection. What a terrific team to consider for your support.
Clinic on the west coast of Aceh
AOMAA, IBU4Aceh, Islamic Relief and the District Dept. of Public Health in Aceh Jaya are working together to reorganize and refurbish a closed clinic 5 Km from Meulaboh, a town of 120,000 on the far west coast of Aceh, Indonesia. The clinic has the potential to be the MCH center, a walk-in primary care clinic, and an urgent care center.
Our medical team discovered a 5 year old boy with a congenital cataract. That led to our speaking with Orbis (the flying eye hospital) doctors about a potential collaboration on the "cybersite" program. If we can establish this clinic with a well appointed, functioning operating theater, Orbis may be able to help us set up a satellite feed system whereby we can train local doctors to do basic eye surgery. We have a faculty member from UCLA in Ophthalmology willing to provide the training.
Eventually, this site will be a training center for doctors, nurses, and medical workers in many new skills to assist with referrals for patients unable to find more complex medical care locally.
We are seeking physician training partners, funds for operations, plus private and NGO partners who wish to provide an upgrade to the facility structure and infrastructure.
What is needed to support this work?
UPDATE: In Aceh we need $40,000 for the psychosocial program, and preschools.
How to Donate
AOMAA serves as an advocate and fundraising organization for the Indonesian Handicapped Association, LPPI. Based in South Jakarta behind Fatmawati Hospital, the 20 year old non-profit organization is led by Board of Directors President, Maz Inung, a journalist, radio and tv news announcer and talk show host, and wheelchair tennis champion in the Australian handicapped games.
LPPI's handicapped volunteer team is building wheelchairs and providing psychosocial and spiritual support for tsunami survivors in Aceh. Independently, they build tough, custom wheel chairs that will negotiate the broken streets of Jakarta, Bogor and other cities, and rural country roads. Working with special pipes and special wheels they customize the chairs to fit the recipient based on their size and body conformation. They are working to replace mobility equipment that was swept away or destroyed in the tsunami and provide opportunities for people who lost limbs in the aftermath to be able to get around and work.
Maz Inung, who has been in Aceh most of 2005, and his team are able to use government commodity storage facilities all over Indonesia as sites to assemble these personalized, street tough wheelchairs that cost approximately $150 each and last a lifetime. They are seeking funding partners who will assist in these worthy goals.
We are especially happy to have donations earmarked in support of their "custom wheel chair" building program. In addition, we advocate for their psychosocial program to help tsunami survivors already traumatized, who later lost limbs from the damage and infection. What a terrific team to consider for your support.
Clinic on the west coast of Aceh
AOMAA, IBU4Aceh, Islamic Relief and the District Dept. of Public Health in Aceh Jaya are working together to reorganize and refurbish a closed clinic 5 Km from Meulaboh, a town of 120,000 on the far west coast of Aceh, Indonesia. The clinic has the potential to be the MCH center, a walk-in primary care clinic, and an urgent care center.
Our medical team discovered a 5 year old boy with a congenital cataract. That led to our speaking with Orbis (the flying eye hospital) doctors about a potential collaboration on the "cybersite" program. If we can establish this clinic with a well appointed, functioning operating theater, Orbis may be able to help us set up a satellite feed system whereby we can train local doctors to do basic eye surgery. We have a faculty member from UCLA in Ophthalmology willing to provide the training.
Eventually, this site will be a training center for doctors, nurses, and medical workers in many new skills to assist with referrals for patients unable to find more complex medical care locally.
We are seeking physician training partners, funds for operations, plus private and NGO partners who wish to provide an upgrade to the facility structure and infrastructure.
What is needed to support this work?
UPDATE: In Aceh we need $40,000 for the psychosocial program, and preschools.
How to Donate