HAS Organizations
HAS INC
HAS INDO
HAS INDO
Health Access Sumbawa Inc. (HAS INC), a Maine USA registered NGO, is governed by a board of six directors, all of whom are donors and none of the officers or directors receive any compensation from HAS. Jack is President, HAS INC works closely with two sister organizations,, one in Indonesia, the other in Australia.
HAS INDO
HAS INDO
HAS INDO
HAS INDO is our non-profit in Indonesia. The nurses, social workers, farm managers, and administrators who implement the programs in Sumbawa all work for HAS INDO. We lead in Sumbawa from the bottom. Our amazing team of village-level staff and part-time volunteers turn visions of a better life into action. Health Access Sumbawa Indonesia (HAS INDO) is governed by a local board, guided by the founder, Jack Kennedy.
HAS OZ
HAS INDO
HAS INC registered a public charity in Australia, Health Access Sumbawa LTD, ( HAS OZ), to facilitate donor support there. Three of the four directors are Australians with connections to Sumbawa. Directors Damian Bowman, Chris Webb, Donna Potts & Jack Kennedy are all volunteers. There is no paid staff at HAS OZ.
HAS INC is an all-volunteer organization in USA with no paid staff.
HAS OZ was created to enhance fundraising with our Australian supporters.
See profiles of HAS INC directors below.
HAS OZ was created to enhance fundraising with our Australian supporters.
HAS OZ was created to enhance fundraising with our Australian supporters.
HAS OZ was created to enhance fundraising with our Australian supporters.
As Indonesia's closest neighbor, Australia is a natural stake-holder in the mission to eliminate malaria & relieve poverty.
HAS INC Directors
Jack Kennedy, Chairman
Pete Skinner, Co-founder, Director
Pete Skinner, Co-founder, Director
John (Jack) Kennedy is the son of a public health doctor who specialized in tropical medicine, He grew up in the South Pacific and South East Asia.
After college and military service, Jack spent five years as Business Manager for a new diversified fruit growing operation. He has had a keen interest in the economics of family farms ever since.
In his late twenties Jack joined a start-up company in a small Connecticut village and spent 5 years helping the founder build it into a $100 million dollar company. He went on to pursue a successful career in international business, including activities in Indonesia.
Jack and his wife Kathleen now live in Maine. A lot of his time since 2014 has been devoted to Health Access Sumbawa in his roles as founder, president, and chairman.
Pete Skinner, Co-founder, Director
Pete Skinner, Co-founder, Director
Pete Skinner, Co-founder, Director
Peter Skinner grew up in a small town nestled in the mountains of southern Vermont. He is a NY state registered professional engineer. Pete currently designs, installs, researches and teaches about residential and commercial solar thermal systems. This is a second career. Pete worked for the New York State Attorney General’s Environmental Protection Bureau for 3 decades supervising a team of scientists who participated in a wide array of environmental litigation, legislation and policy development.
In his spare time, Skinner works on fund raising for the Waldenstrom’s Foundation, Health Access Sumbawa Inc, paddles his favorite whitewater, mountain bikes with Jack, plays keyboards and spends time and travels with his partner and sons.
John Monterisi, Director
Pete Skinner, Co-founder, Director
John Monterisi, Director
John Monterisi learned about Jack's work in Sumbawa through a local newspaper article. He met Jack for lunch, and ended up visiting the clinic with Jack in 2016. Since then he has been involved with supporting HAS, Inc. and its mission.
John was an attorney in Boston for almost 30 years. Now he teaches part-time at Cambridge College School of Management, plays and records music with bands in Boston and midcoast Maine, travels, and studies vipassana Buddhism and meditation.
He has served on the boards of Yaguara,Inc., a Jaguar conservation program in Costa Rica, and Cambridge Insight Meditation Center.