📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Indonesia as an archipelago country has both beautiful nature and many natural disasters. The most common is earthquake that hit every day in entire country with small and big scale. Indonesia also has the most active volcanoes in the world that have potential to erupt anytime. The earthquake itself is a unique natural disaster because people cannot predict the place and time it will occur. Until now there is no advance technology to predict earthquake.
It was on 28 September 2018, a 7,5 magnitude earthquake hit the city of Palu and Donggala in Central Sulawesi. The earthquake was continued by the tsunami that have made a massive destruction in the city and offshore and killed more than 2000 people. It was the biggest earthquake hit in Indonesia in 2018 after several earthquakes hit in Lombok island few months earlier.
The disaster was not finished yet because there was a rare phenomenon called liquefaction which is a phenomenon when the soil loses its strength because of sudden stress. This phenomenon causing thousands of houses in a village were flowing like water and sinking to the earth. Some of the buildings near the area were impacted with massive destruction and some of them were impacted with passive destruction.
These disasters have left the people with sorrow and sadness. Some of the lost their family members, relatives, friends, and neighbors. They lived without electricity, water and food supplies for some days and without anything to do because the lost their jobs. The children could not go to the school because the building was damaged, and their teacher and some of students were the victims.
The government and international disaster organization said that it takes more than 5 years to rebuild and recover the building, streets, and all facilities. Until the end of 2018, there are still many families who live in the shelter, tend and temporary house. The children also still doing their activity in outside or a tend while their school building is still under construction.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will help to do trauma healing. The impact of disaster is not only construction and building damage, but also in psychological. The people are very sad, confused, cannot think clearly and cannot sleep well that can be a trauma especially for children and students. Volunteer can help to make fun activities such as sing a song, playing games, learning English and cultural exchange. Through these activities we hope to heal their trauma and share happiness among them. Volunteer also conduct physical activity such as renovating the damage building, removing the soil from school yard, and also renovating the classroom.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be accommodated in local host family or dormitory (basic conditions, sleeping bag and mat needed), where they will also receive food. Prefer no vegan (strict vegetarian)
📍 About the location
During free time, the volunteers will have the chance to visit the diverse exciting attraction in Palu and Central Sulawesi. The volunteers may visit beaches, handicraft making centre or traditional market.
ℹ️ Additional information
310 or 5.270.000 IDR/camp (flat rate 1 : 17.000 IDR). It covers food, accommodation, materials and local transport during the project. The fee must be paid in CASH upon arrival. Failure of full payment upon arrival, the participant is not allowed to join the project for any reason.