The next project takes place in Bangli Regency, precisely at Pengotan Village.

This time, Bali Charity visited the village together with Pak Kadek and Ibu Down from Bali Caring Community. Not like our latest visit to Nawakerti that cost us 2 hours drive, it only takes 1 hour to reach Pengotan Village.

We received information that Pengotan village has quite high position in term of total amount poor households in Bangli regency. From The data showed that from 966 houses, 517 of them are poor. It almost 60% of them even there is some cases of severe malnutrition.

People in Pengotan Village generally work as farmer and breeding over the cow or pig. Most of the people there also depends their life from weaving bamboo. They are very productive as it can be seen from tumpang sari – intercropping – system they applied, really a great example.

Accompanied by the head village, Bapak Wayan Arsana, we visited 5 families around Padpadan Village. Again, not like at Nawakerti village where local houses very difficult to get in touch with, at this village our local target situated not so far from the main road. It needs few steps only from the place we parked our car.

The first we visit is Ibu Kramen, a widow with four children. Three of them have been married as one lived in one house environment with the mother. This old woman usually cultivates over 20-acre land belong to other people. It takes us serious concern of that old woman still has to work seriously for a living.

The next family we visit is I Wayan Molos family. They are 70 years old couple and live with one of their son, Wayan Madu. They are farmer and breeding cow. Wayan Madu himself is doing varied job according to order, sometimes he become laborer, sometimes farmer or even any other works people need. They live in a hut build on land of other.

We then visit Nengah Riwin and Wayan Tomi families. Both houses coincidentally stand across each other. Each family has two children their daily profession is a farmer that cultivating over others land.

In our way home from Padpadan village and as we looking at the package that still lots of them, we give it for people we met along the street or who were work on the field or even to the children who are playing.
It touched us when seeing their happy face for receiving the gift. What we give them perhaps not an expensive thing still they looks so happy and keep expressing their gratitude.

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There we meet various families, from old couples and young couples up to lonely old playboy. There are two quiet young couple that also part of cow project, Wayan Jati and Wayan Kawan. Wayan Jati and his wife, Ni Nengah Sri has one 3 years old baby as he supported his family only by doing course laborer. Another one is Wayan Kawan and his wife Ni Made Sariani who had already blessed with two children, this family is also one of the cow receiver for Nawa Kerti cow project.

We also visiting some old couples like Wayan Joglogan and his wife Ni Wayan Sungkeg, Ketut Dengkil and Ni Nyoman Peges, Wayan Cekeg and spouse Ni Ketut Ririg. Two last couples are Wayan Wangi family who have five children although when we visited his house, there is no one at home since all has already went to the temple as the local religious ceremony took place at that day.

What mostly give us surprise and barely made us for seconds speechless perhaps the nonchalant playboy, Ketut Kuat. Two, four or even five wives are not normal nowadays, but this old man can manage to have 8 wives in total. Really a fabulous numbers and ridiculously matching name since Kuat in English means Strong, yes he did strong to finally manage having that many wives in one life time. Ketut Kuat now only live with his two wives with children spread everywhere as he confessed has around 24 children. He is jobless right now and only manages to support his and his two wives life through becoming a junk scavenger.

Through achieving the cow from our charity project hopefully could help Pak Kuat and his wives get a better living. Finally, after distributing all aids to the people rightful of it, our team then went back to the village head’s office as to bit farewell with him. After numerous visits, some house projects and as it ended with cow project, we exchange few words with the head village. It is indeed we went through a lot of things to finalize all project at Nawa Kerti and parting not such an easy way to do. Still, it does not mean that everything was over with this village, no matter in what form, as long as we are able to help this village, this charity team are willing to help. Nawakerti is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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Continuing the charity project in Nawakerti village of Karangasem Regency, today we, Private Leisure International is not alone anymore as we assisted by Natan Hospitality Indonesia. We departed to Nawakerti village on October 8th from Denpasar, and just like our previous trip to this village, it always been a long trip to finally arrive. Quite difficult actually to deny the long distance to reach this village since it is part of the most eastern regency of Bali. Moreover, with the hectic traffic and jammed everywhere on road since early in the morning had made we arrived a little late from our initial time appointment with the head of the village, Pak Nengah.

Soon we meet with Pak Nengah, explanation about this new project and its primary installment, which half of it has already begun, were discuss. The project is all about cattle breeding for twentieth families whom the village considered as those who have low economic capability. The project itself is a phased project and hoped could reach all people in Nawakerti village just with three layer project phases. The first phase of this project, as had been mentioned above are families with the lowest economic capability in this village, each of them handed with one cow for it to breed and for each one of calf to be given to the next families who are in the second phase of this project. After the project reached all families in that village, precisely sixty families, those who are in the last period of these phases project should give their calf to the village institution under the concern of village board.

The first phase, the twentieth families deserved the cow, only eight of them that had received it so far and we’d see them right away after the light and warm discussion with Pak Nengah, which was followed by the arrival of village leader “penglingsir” Pak Sujana, we departed to see the first eight families receiving the cows. We cannot reach each house with car due to its inland location, as there are very rare accesses for car to enter, make us should have quite a long tracking. We are pleased to do it since it something hard to find in Denpasar, of you walking in a total peace and so close to nature. Regardless of the lack of comfortable road access, it has come to a delightful feeling of breathing over non-polluted air as well as helps us to understand better their hardship.

Upon seeing them we are not only wanted to see the cow itself, figuratively the celebrity of that day, we’d like also to see the condition of family deserved the cow. Even poverty, despite of its one basic meaning has different colors in reality, different but sounds familiar but not too familiar for those who are never live with it. The cow is the way we want to help them yet never intended to indulge them with charity, as we want to assist their life where they themselves also take part in it, the reason why we give it to family who have the burden of family and healthy enough to raise the cow. There we saw family with a paralyzed girl to raise, a family whose head is only a farmworker like Pak Wayan Soma, or only a bamboo basket maker like Pak Nengah Putra , all with professions that are not certain a day could result some money for their family.

Most of them also breeding two or three cows but those are not belong to them, they only breed it until it worth enough for sell and share the profit, quite long patience to breed and get the result actually. The focus of this cow project is intended for them to raise the cow and make the living through it, in which one village could assist each other to make a better living.

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