ANOTHER SUSTAINABILITY MILESTONE

The Bali Dynasty Resorts’ Charity Effort and fundraising just reached another milestone in the path to sustainability when the villagers of Pengalusan produced and sold over 300 handmade bamboo wastebaskets to the Bali Dynasty Resort for their guest rooms.

The Bali Dynasty Resort in conjunction with the East Bali Poverty Project has supported  this small and remote village in North Eastern Bali since 2003 hoping, through providing education, that in the long term the people of this community in time will become self sustainable.

Since 1998, The East Bali Poverty Project has strived to create a sustainable community by way of low-cost, high-quality, environmentally friendly solutions. One of their latest projects is the Bamboo Reforestation. Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world, and on top of that it is the best known method of carbon sequestration.  The East Bali Poverty Project in conjunction with bamboo specialists such as the infamous Linda Garland, has taught the people in the surrounding villages how to plant bamboo, harvest it in order for the carbon to remain sequestered in its roots, and use it to sell for building projects ranging from huts to houses and the smaller projects such as the wastebaskets. 

Due to the resounding support of the Bali Dynasty Resort guests, business partners and suppliers, in 2011 the fundraising exceeded all targets enabling the Bali Dynasty Resort to take more actions to push future sustainability. One such project was the purchase of over 400 bamboo seedlings planted on 1 hectare on the outskirts of Pengalusan and the other being to support the University Education of budding artist Lias who was actually once of the first school members in Cegi which the Bali Dynasty Resort sponsored from 2000.

Seen in the picture is Mr David J Booth MBE, Founder & Chairman East Bali Poverty Project presenting the Bamboo waste baskets to the Executive Housekeeping, Pak IB Surya and the General Manager, Robert Kelsall at the Bali Dynasty Resort.

The Bali Dynasty Resort, through the Bali Dynasty Charity effort established in 2000 has supported the integrated education projects of the East Bali Poverty Project initially supporting Cegi and Pengalusan schools and now fully supporting just Pengalusan. The program concentrates on educating 60 or so children in the basics of reading and writing, mathematics, arts and crafts, health, hygiene and organic farming with the objective that they become self sufficient in the long term. Since 2000, the Dynasty has raised over 2 billion Rupiah in aid making the Bali Dynasty Resort one of the leading sponsors of the East Bali Poverty Project.

 

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