Results Surfaid International Founder Andceo Dr Davejenkins the Emergencies
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2008 Results Dear Member It’s a great pleasure to welcome you to our annual results mail out. It’s been another busy year of consolidation, growth and learning. Following our major emergency response to the earthquakes in the Mentawai Islands in September 2007, to which we had redeployed our Emergency Preparedness and Malaria Free Mentawai staff, we returned to our core work in the E-Prep and MFM programs to keep them on track with program targets. Included in the projects described below are several new innovative strategies that demonstrate our continued organizational determination to seek the most cost-effective strategies that create lasting change. As these projects roll out, we track their impacts, refine the processes and build replicable tools that will enable future efficient expansion A Personal Letter A Personal to assist more people. This continued commitment to giving you, our donors, the best return for your donation is a primary objective and I would like to thank you for your ongoing support that allows us to help create increasingly healthy communities in the Mentawai and Nias who are self-reliant and prepared for future emergencies. Best regards Dr Dave Jenkins Founder and CEO SurfAid International SURFAID INTERNATIONAL DELIVERS systems and two separate types of latrines. CLEAN WATER TO NIAS COMMUNITIES All have been constructed with local PROGRAM SurfAid International is delivering clean community participation. water to Nias communities - some for Following the success of this first Watsan the first time - after completing 99 water program, we initiated a second phase projects on the island which was dev- for Nias, starting with an assessment of astated by the March 2005 earthquake eight villages in Afulu and Alasa. SurfAid measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale. is currently raising money to fund this The earthquake badly affected the water important program. supply as it lifted coral reefs on the west and SurfAid will also extend the Watsan south coasts by one to three meters, raising program to the Mentawai Islands, which the level of many community wells above the lie south of Nias. The Mentawai was badly water table. Wells were also destroyed or affected by two major earthquakes, Results badly damaged so SurfAid undertook a joint measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Watsan (water and sanitation) program with scale, in September 2007. UNICEF and NZAID, which started in 2006. The 99 facilities, in 26 villages in Sirombu and Teluk Dalam, include new water tanks, tapped spring water systems, new and reconditioned wells, rainwater harvesting SURFAid’S MALARIA FREE MENTawaI CBHP FIELD-BASED ACTIVITY PROGRAM EMBARKS ON FINAL LEG MONITORING SYSTEM PROGRAM SurfAid International’s Malaria Free During the course of 2008, a field based Mentawai (MFM) program embarked on its monitoring system has been progressively final leg in September with the distribution introduced to our Community Based Health of insecticide-treated mosquito nets, malaria Program (CBHP). education and parasite testing on the island By December 2008, between the Mentawai of Sipora. and Nias, it is anticipated there will be: SurfAid completed work on the other • Almost 1,200 Care Group meetings three Mentawai islands of Siberut, and • 6,600 times volunteers will attend Care North and South Pagai, in March, rolling Group meetings out the MFM program to nearly 53,000 of • 23,000 home visits by Care Group volunteers the approximate 70,000 population. • 900 visits to households classified as high-risk Results Distribution of about 3,500 nets is being • Almost 900 health messages delivered in targeted at approximately 10,000 Sipora church, mosque or other religious meetings. villagers and completion is scheduled for This increase in community participation December 2008. on all levels shows recognition by the “This five months of work will complete community that they have health issues our coverage of Sipora, and we should that they need to address. have covered close to 90 per cent of the Mentawai by the time it ends,” SurfAid E-PREP ESTABLISHES AND TRAINS Program Director, Alan Rogerson, said. DISASTER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES Alan Rogerson said members of the Community-elected village disaster Mentawai Health Department medical management committees were staff are working with the SurfAid MFM established in all 56 target villages team to collect blood samples on all in the Mentawai and Nias under our children under the age of nine in order E-Prep program. to determine the baseline incidence of These village committees malaria parasites in the communities. are based on the Indonesian Government model of SATLINMAS CBHP CARE GROUP TRAINING (Community Protection Units) and include Since January 2008, our Community a number of important sub-units such as Based Health Program (CBHP) field early warning, first aid, search and rescue, activities have been principally focused evacuation and community kitchen. on implementing a series of health-related Participatory Disaster Risk Assessment training programs with the objective of (PDRA) methodology enabled communities supporting Care Groups in their efforts to to be at the centre of the risk analysis disseminate information to the individual activities and enabled these communities household level. Training provided to Care to first identify their risks and next look at Groups has focused on: ways in which such risk and hazard could • Revitalisation of posyandu be mitigated. These assessments were • Hygiene, and the link between hygiene completed in all Mentawai and Nias villages. and health This high level of community participation • Respiratory infection in the analysis and planning of Community • Nutrition and the identification of Based Disaster Risk Management activities underweight and malnourished children establishes a framework for greater com- in individual communities. munity participation and sustainability. Between June and September 2008, E-Prep staff trained more than 2500 disaster preparedness team members and held community disaster response simulations. PROGRAM DR DAVE JENKINS HONORED AS SIMA’S INAUGURAL HUMANITARIAN NewsOF THE YEAR The Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) Humanitarian Fund honored SurfAid CEO and Founder Dr Dave Jenkins as their inaugural Humanitarian of the Year at the annual Liquid Nation Ball fundraiser in California, USA, in September. Surf industry executives and professional surfers gathered at the oceanfront home of Fernando and Vicky Aguerre in La Jolla to honor Dr Dave and to help raise approximately $230,000 for 14 surf-related humanitarian organizations, including SurfAid. Dr Dave said he was incredibly grateful and honored to be named as the first-ever SIMA Humanitarian of the Year. “The Liquid Nation Ball has been supportive of us and our vision for SurfAid International since its infancy when “With the inclusion of Dr Saiful in our it was not much more than a crazy idea,” Dr team we have already made progress in Dave said. “The sport of surfing has opened developing working relationships with key our eyes to the world and the ways that we government officials. One such example of can make a difference for others.” this is the recent signing of a wide-ranging Big thanks to Fernando and Santiago Memorandum of Understanding with Aguerre who created the Liquid Nation Ball the Mentawai Local Government,” Alan to support the humanitarian efforts of SurfAid. Rogerson said. In 2006 the brothers donated the Ball to the “Dr Saiful has also managed to get the SIMA Humanitarian Fund. MHD to start working on their plans to improve posyandu services (from provid- DR SAIFUL SOFJAN APPOINTED ing immunization to improving staff training AS SURFAID MEDICAL DIRECTOR and staff management). And he is helping SurfAid announced the appointment of Dr them with their annual budget planning to Saiful Sofjan, from Padang, West Sumatra, ensure they have the funds to deliver these as SurfAid’s medical director in September. improved services.” SurfAid Program Director Alan Rogerson Dr Saiful said he was happy to work said the organization realized that the together with SurfAid because he was long-term sustainability of its programs interested in the same vision and objective. depended on a successful transfer of “As a medical doctor, to work to improve knowledge and expertise to the Health the health and wellbeing of people, Departments of the Mentawai, Nias and particularly people who live in an isolated South Nias. region, a forgotten area, and a neglected community, is a glorious mission,” he said. PROGRAM HIGH MALNUTRITION RATES and practices common in these families IN THE MENTawaI that distinguish them from other families News There is a growing sense of community (with malnourished children) in the same ownership of the Quiksilver SurfAid community. By identifying and working with Community Health Training Centre at Katiet the families who are positively deviant, it and it is being used for a range of Commu- is expected that the necessary practices nity Based Health Program (CBHP) activities and behaviors can be identified and be such as meetings and cooking demonstra- transferred to other families. tions. Further SurfAid research, on top of the Using demonstrably successful local combined with the fact that the Mentawai section remains locked SURFAID IS KEY SPONSOR extensive 2007 KAP (knowledge, attitude, practices and resources, and promoting under Siberut Island - raising fears that another large earthquake is OF THE 4TH NATIONAL CBDRM SYMPOSIUM IN BALI practice)