Forgotten children of Lombok

This is a project that is very dear to me and I would love for anyone to share this. Forgotten Children of Lombok: These are photos taken over the last 2 weeks & we are digging up a lot of really sick children who have never seen doctors and are working on government paths to get them to government doctors, some sadly may not be able to be helped - but my goal is that they should not pass hungry or in pain. These kids and their mums and dads are the poorest of the poor and I am setting up $28 monthly food parcels or 'less than a dollar a day type funding for a years trial. $28 buys a huge food parcel that includes a gas bottle for cooking. The food, soap, gas etc is delivered monthly to them for free on a small truck by some very very caring Indonesian young people so we can get 100% of funding to our children. Thanks to new technology & face book we can also create a very transparent feed back loop with photos, videos, messages etc of their activity so that donor's can get monthly thank you's & feed back. One of my past problems has been that in sending a $28 per month donation had a bank transfer fee of $25 leaving just $3 - I will soon have our trust set up and we will be able to send blocks of donations across which attract a only one off $25 fee for all. Love to hear from anybody or work groups who would like to trial this for a year with our new organisation. The last photo came in 40 minutes ago which has prompted my post. Message me here on FB or email petehoney@gmail.com Thank you

PRIORITIES

PRIORITIES: fridge - toilet block / showers - mattress - lots of tools - dive gear. Awesome progress. Finding so many other important projects to work with, and importantly experienced and passionate people. Thanks very much Joe Sharman for the bed & and Andrew Taylor for the head ache
Back to planning ...

ROOF SHOUT?

Roofs are on so it looks like a roof shout mmmm I think my builders are muslim so it will only be me & Eka 'damn'. We now have 3 of our big buildings up and 3 small bungalows, this week is our design stage so lots to think about. AND + + we have good water and power. The location is only 200 meters from a stunning beach, restaurants, dive shops and lots of nice people - already have volunteers arriving and 'a lot' of sick kids to organise help for - so we are on the ground running.

NEVER SEEN A DOCTOR

Discovered yesterday. Our new NPO Projects.org manager - Michael arrived ahead of me a month ago and found Sasha yesterday. While working on our Outbound Rinjani, Gili T Base, Blind Orphanage, Pira & Sumbawa and our many other projects, he has discovered many kids who are in similar or worse situations as Sasha who's parents are too poor to see a doctor. At last I am off in 1 week for 3 months to set up our bases. in time we will soon have accommodation for you or friendswho may want to join us on our new NPO Projects Gili T Volunteer Resort & Projects Coordination Base. ICFW
Check it out - http://npogilitrawangan.weebly.com/

Tom restoring eyesight to blind orphans

TOM IS TRYING TO GIVE A BLIND ORPHAN HIS EYESIGHT & MICHAEL, KATE, MARK HAVE ALSO DONE SO: WHY SHOULD WE SAY 'WEL DONE' TO PEOPLE LIKE MICHAEL JOHN, KATE THOMPSON, MARK BALDWIN & TOM GAMMAGE and others.

I am really proud of Tom, Kate, Michael & Mark - Why? In a world that is sadly disconnected from poor & needy people, these guys have rare DNA, they really care for people and the environment. For many of us during our 'purest' years at University etc, also had dreams to 'Save the Environment or Help Starving People'. Sadly we became disconnected from our dreams as the real world of mortgages, jobs, young family etc stole them.

Tom, Kate, Mark & Michael however are still young, passionate and are both still holding on to these dreams. These dreams however could only be a matter of time before the real world destroys them ... unless we help give them strength and 'the rocket fuel' to carry on doing good. WHAT IS THIS ROCKET FUEL? The rocket fuel is a simple 'Well done Tom!' Well done Michael! Well done Mark, Well Done Kate! It is that easy, lets all post "a well done to them."

Michael, Kate, & Tom are going to go on to do many more great things, so lets help them Believe in their ability to do these things.
So the second thing is in giving $5 pounds to Tom's cause you will let him know he is not alone! We know 5 pounds is nothing! but the pain is that it takes time to find the credit card and put in a few numbers into a online form, don't worry - the payment is secure and credit card safe. Also just because someone someone you you may know puts in $20 pounds and you only have $5 don't worry - you can donate without telling people your details. Tom has taken the initiative lets help him! Please Donate at http://www.gofundme.com/blindorphanage

More Info:
A BLIND CHILD MIRACLE - LETS HELP TOM GET THE CATARACT SURGERY! where most charities waste money Tom will deliver 100% to help a blind orphan 'Dede' see for the 1st time ever. The kids at the Lombok Blind Orphanage only get only 17 cents for three meals per day and Tom is wants to change this so lets help!
The kids all love Tom who was the 1st Westerner to stay at this orphanage. Since Tom's visit we found 8 of the kids with Cataract Surgery will get to see again. Also we have free land on the Famous Diving Islands - Gilli Trawargan and want to build a blind orphan massage & music school and business for the kids where 4 blind kids that only get 17 cents per day could easily raise US$1,000 per week.
http://blindophanage.weebly.com/

With Tom's money the building will start and you can even come and stay and get your free massage!
See: http://blindophanage.weebly.com/gili-t-massage-business-project.html

IS THERE SOMEONE TO HELP GAWI GET SKIN HELP?
The blind child in the photo is a very very smart child called Gawi, Gawi needs a friend and sponsor for skin care help. Is their any body out their who would like to directly sponsor Gawi $1 per day?

Well done Michael, Kate, Mark & Tom
Peter Honey NPO Projects.org Project Coordinator

— with Onny Ekadana and 19 others.

Need of Sumbawa sustainable fisheries management & marine park

WHAT A FOOL! Yup that was me & sadly there were hundreds of days of plunder. The below photo was a third of a 44 gallon drum of crayfish that 2 of us caught in less than 20 minutes! It was a house size rock covered in crayfish, just bristling with feelers like pine needles. Now we get cray fish by the few all because of a mis understanding to how fragile these populations are. New Zealand is lucky though & is blessed with a fairly good sustainable fishing system, sadly the rest of the world isn't and the plunder in some my project areas are getting closer to un fixable. I have been part of & seen some horrific changes to the Bay of Islands - it has changed so much in only 25 years. Positively the 'Kiwi fisherman mentality' in most cases is so different now thanks a lot to TV fishing shows that deliver more understanding and the bravado is more sensible. People are really starting to care so much more in recent times and social media is sprouting so many groups that are out there doing good stuff.
Sadly in poor countries like Indonesia they are desperately behind. Our new Sumbawa sustainable fisheries management & marine park project hopes to help thousands from a bleak future.
Very soon we will have places for people who care to come and stay for free, we will have a big project coordination & support facility so if volunteers want, we can empower people to do their very own environmental research or people helping small project. If you have time check out and come for a visit:
http://nposumbawa.weebly.com/ and also http://npogilitrawangan.weebly.com/

— with Graeme William Halse.

Thank you Graeme William Halse

Sri is your very great full Blind Orphan! - Graeme William Halse thank you! This will be a miracle christmas present for her, thank you and the Foy and Halse team so much for helping the kids and sponsoring A$450 for one of our 3 blind orphans for their eyesight restoring surgery. Together with Martin Honey we now have surgery for 2 of the kids with 1 to go for our proposed mid November surgeries.

THE BLIND ORPHANS: Of 30 very poor blind orphans eight with surgery will hopefully see again. These kids are some of the strongest most positive kids I know and get 17cents per day for 3 meals, they are very deserving of help. I am really looking forward to the videos of these kids seeing for the 1st time ... :)