Learn about our charitable organization, malaria control, healthcare for remote communities, and how you can help!
Learn about our charitable organization, malaria control, healthcare for remote communities, and how you can help!
Dear Friends of HAS,
An ancient proverb tells us that the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today. This truth applies equally well to the fight against malaria, hunger, poverty and the destruction of our natural environment, including our fertile soils and abundant oceans. Health Access Sumbawa works at all of these missions with a sense of urgency.
Our "Trash bank" cooperative ( Bank Sampah in Indonesian) cleans ocean beaches around Cempi Bay, processes the plastic bottles for recycling, earning income for the women who do this work. Do Good Glasses funds the plastic recycling project & creates a market for recycled PET plastic. (See more on our Do Good Glasses Tab.)
Access to Health Care: HAS recently completed construction a second village health center, this time in Panubu hamlet. We have partnered with the local Health Department to develop a telemedicine program that will connect rural patients to city doctors. This Fall we will hang 2,000 treated bednets in remote West Sumbawa homes to help protect 3,000 villagers from Malaria - carrying mosquitoes.
Our large community gardens continue to thrive, and Tuti's farm school continues to teach sustainable market gardening using organic methods.
Individual actions can make a huge difference, especially when we join in common cause with others. So, look us over. Donate if you can. And thanks for dropping by.
Gratefully,
Jack
Jack Kennedy, Founder & President, Health Access Sumbawa Inc.
"Health For Remote Communities" is what we do. Health Access Sumbawa (HAS) operates exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of 501 (c) (3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
In 2014, founder Jack Kennedy contracted malaria following a visit to Sili village on Cempi Bay in Central Sumbawa. This personal experience opened his eyes to the unsolved problem of malaria in Eastern Indonesia. Later that year, Jack joined with two close friends to provide the seed money to begin HAS’s work. The original mission was to control malaria in three hamlets named Sili, Maci and Panubu within three years for “the price of a car”. HAS accomplished its initial goal in November of 2017. There remained much more to do, however.
What started as a 3 year project for founders Jack Kennedy, Pete Skinner, & Donna Flynn has grown into a small group of registered not-for-profit charities in three countries.
Special thanks to the following organizations:
Grateful for the ongoing support from all our donors, with special mention to the following individuals:
Nancy Alford, Charles Alexander & Charlotte Glinka, Lydia Atkins & Philip Nield, Daniel & Katherine Barnes, Damian & Rachael Bowman, Pixy & Woody Brown, Mary Beth Brown, Hester & Nat Clapp, Jim Chapin, Deborah & Stuart Eisenberg, David Farrar, Donna Flynn & Dick Picard, Joe Guttentag, Carolyn Hardman, Beth Hunter, Jack & Dan & Carolyn Hunt, Kathleen Kennedy, Kathleen Enger, Gretchen & Clytie Kennedy, Sue & Bud Lewis, Jan & Dan Lewis, Laura & John Masek, Eugenie & Ron Maine, Don & Robbin May, Laura & John Masek, Sandy & Steve McCarty, Peter & Amy McNaughton, John Monterisi & Cheryl Hutt, Nancy Murdock, Greg Lukianoff, Oedipus, William Paine, Blair & Sherry Pyne, Becky Recor, Martha & Brendan Roche, Lee & Linda Schiller, Leah Sprague, John Schindler & Jane Wissman,, Mary Sheldon, Margaret Skinner, Peter Skinner & Betsy Wyman, Robert & Jackie Sperandio, David Stackhouse, Anna Timell, Vickie Tillman, Charlie & Margie Vail, Sidney Witter, Karen & Robert Wilson, Sam & Tracy Zager, Jean Vitalis.
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