2008

Results SurfAid International Founder andCEO Dr DaveJenkins the emergencies. in future for communities Best regards prepared healthy and ongoing self-reliant increasingly your are for who create you Nias help and thank to to us Mentawai like would allows I and that support objective primary a is donation This continued commitment to giving you, our donors, the best return for your expansion to assistmorepeople. efficient future enable will that tools replicable impacts, build and their track processes we the out, refine roll projects these As change. lasting create that cost-effective that most strategies the seek strategies to determination innovative new organizational several continued are our below demonstrate described projects the in Included in theE-PrepandMFMprogramstokeepthemontrackwithprogramtargets. work core our to returned we staff, Mentawai Free Malaria and Preparedness Emergency ourredeployed had we which to 2007, September in Islands Mentawai the in earthquakes to the response emergency major our Following learning. and growth of consolidation, year It’s a great pleasure to welcome you to our annual results mail out. It’s been another busy Dear Member A Personal Letter 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 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) survey, has shown a malnutrition behavior change by seeing and doing, care- imminent - the risk of natural disaster striking our Emergency Pre- SurfAid was one of the international organizations involved in the rate among children in Katiet of almost 60 givers and communities are empowered to paredness (E-Prep) target program regions remains extremely high. three-day symposium that brought together community based per cent and there have been some deaths take responsibility for their own nutritional disaster risk management (CBDRM) practitioners from government, reported throughout the Mentawai due rehabilitation, and for ultimately maintaining E-Prep Launches Training Videos local and international organizations, agencies and academia. The to malnutrition. good growth and health in their children. A professional set of disaster preparedness and management theme for this symposium was: Institutionalizing CBDRM. training videos was produced and officially launched. SurfAid and SurfAid sponsored the participation of community and Posyandu Revitalization Underway SurfAid Initiates Oxfam GB jointly funded this project undertaken by IDEP Foun- government representatives from Nias and the Mentawai In an extensive survey conducted for Growth Monitoring Program dation. The films are an important training resource and cover Islands. These representatives gave presentations to the SurfAid in 2007, there were indications of One of the standard services offered first response, community participation, community analysis and symposium about their experiences working together with unacceptably high levels of malnutrition in at posyandu is the weighing of children what is community-based disaster risk management. 5,000 DVDs the E-Prep Programs and their ideas for sustaining emergency children in the Mentawai and Nias islands. and pregnant women, and measuring the and 5,000 VCDs are being distributed to target communities and preparedness and community response mechanisms in In both Nias and the Mentawai, 34 per height (or length) of children. The objective stakeholders in the Mentawais, Nias and throughout Indonesia. the future. cent of children under the age of five were of the GMP (Growth Monitoring Program), underweight. In Nias, 13 per cent were so introduced by SurfAid as part of the over- A big congratulation goes out to everyone involved with SurfAid in 2008 for a job well done! underweight as to be considered wasted, all revitalization program, is to ensure all and in the Mentawai the corresponding weight and measurement data is collected figure for wasted children was 7 per cent. accurately, and is then analyzed and main- These figures provided the driving force tained in a community-wide (and ultimately for SurfAid to prioritize nutrition. program-wide) database. This data is vital Our health program training has focused on in monitoring: posyandu revitalization (the community- • The nutritional status of individual children supported monthly health clinics for preg- (as assessed by their weight-for-height ratio); nant mothers and children under five, who • The progress of individual women during are assisted by local health centre staff). their pregnancy. This has presented a unique opportunity The ultimate objective of the growth to build relations with communities and to monitoring component is to provide the start work on sustainability, and our sharing key data required to inform communities of information regarding community health of their progress and to ensure the has engendered a greater sense of urgency greatest effort is targeted at the individual among community leaders. community members who are at the greatest risk of malnutrition. SurfAid Implements the Positive Deviance Approach Mentawai and Nias Remain At High The Positive Deviance (PD) Approach Risk of Earthquake and Tsunami was implemented in June 2008 in Nias and Both Nias and the Mentawai Islands ex- in July 2008 in the Mentawai. It is a proven, perienced natural disasters in early 2008. community-based nutrition rehabilitation An earthquake measuring 6.2 struck Nias program that addresses childhood malnu- on January 23, 2008, claiming one life trition in a sustainable manner, targeted at and seriously injuring three. resource poor communities. The approach The Mentawai Islands were hit by a is simple, and relies on the fact that all series of strong earthquakes in February community members have access to the 2008 which resulted in the Mentawai same resources. Islands Regent calling a three-week state At the start of the Positive Deviance activity, of emergency. Two people were killed and individual families in each community are hundreds of homes were damaged in the assessed and families that have adequately quakes further complicating recovery and nourished children are identified. Trained reconstruction issues in the district. staff then attempt to identify the behaviors As a result of continued seismic activity, Swim 4 Life: Coming Soon to a Pool Near You! SurfAid’s core fundraiser, Swim 4 Life, is your opportunity to support SurfAid International and reach out to friends and family who care about the plight of the people in the Mentawai and Nias. Your efforts to raise money will fuel the engine of change helping 100,000 of the friendliest people on earth live happier, healthier lives. Teams and individuals register in advance and in the days and weeks before the event get sponsored by friends and family for a 30-minute swim at one of the venues. Prizes are awarded to top fundraisers, top swimmers and top fundraising teams. Swim 4 Life will happen in San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco in March and April 2009. For more information on Swim 4 Life, go to www.surfaidinternational.org/swim4life

Membership & Recognition of Support 2008

$100,000+ SIMA Humanitarian Fund & The Liquid Nation Ball Quiksilver Foundation Tom Shadyac Mulago Foundation Billabong

$50,000+ Billabong Europe/Design for Humanity Sean Nevett Balance Vector

$25,000 + Peter Wheeler

$10,000+ Offield Family Foundation SBMT Family Charitable Trust Alpinist, LLC Laurentius & Simone Harrer Spencer Croul & The Croul Family Foundation Angel Printing, San Diego Paddle Round the Pier BWhyoard of Dire ctorWes: Paul Riehle,Give! Santiago Aguerre, Aaron Behle Scott Sobel Advisory Board: Fernando Aguerre, C.J. Olivares, Candy Harris Christopher Ritchie Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Special Members & Volunteers SIMA, Action Sports Retailer (ASR), Surf Expo, Board Retailers Association (BRA), $5,000 + Sun Diego, Wetsand, Jack’s , Hurley International, Rusty Surf Boards, GFH Frank & Janet Foster Family Foundation Boards, ZJ Boarding House, Ltd, The Surf Gallery, Action Wholesale The Casey Family Fund Products, Inc., Duke’s Waikiki Partnership, Reef Redemption, Indies Trader Marine Ad- Jedidah Industries, Inc. ventures, Saraina Koat Mentawai, Zimzala, Surf Addict, Castle Advertising, Chris Calan- Bemus Landscape, Inc. dra, Earthpack, Angle Printing, Schwartz Communications, EveryMethod, Johnny Kes- Patrina Foundation sel, Sage Island SDMA, Charlie Hargraves, Surfer Magazine, Surfing Magazine, Water Wetsand Magazine, Transworld Surf Magazine, The Surfer’s Journal, The Surfer’s Path, , Zimzala Surfshot, Mundo Rad!, Carbon Magazine, The Line Up Magazine, Eastern Surf Magazine, Watermans Sunscreen, Applied Science International Surfing Association, Fuel TV, Kelly Slater, Jackson Browne, Jack Johnson, Bryan & Lisa Watson Ben Harper, Laird Hamilton, Carolyn Murphy, Dane Ward, Brad Gerlach, Will Tant, Damien Steve & Sally Beck Hobgood, Jordan Pundik, Timmy Curran, Chris Waring, Mary Osborne, Chris Malloy, Joe Fuel TV Curren, Rob Machado Surf Addict Reef Redemption Brochure design: Patrick Stroupe, Kaos Digital, Inc.