Time of visit: 2 June 2017
Name: Gede Suardika (Male/around 50 yo)
Occupation: making Tuak (fermented beverages from Palmyra palm)
Address: Br. Goris, Pajarakan Village, Gerokgak, Buleleng Regency
Wife’s name: Nyoman Surining (Female/Around 45 yo)
Occupation: raising pigs and cattle
Contact phone number:
- 0852-3824-1804, Gede Suardika.
- 0853-3360-3315, Made Wiradnya, local volunteer
Category: poor family
Regular sponsor:
- Balipockets Udo und Adelheid Tischbein helps with school supplies costs, starting March 2024
- Please contact us if you want to be a regular sponsor
Update on July 17th, 2019; Gede Suardika received housing assistance from BCC donor.
Update on January 24th, 2021; Gede Suardika has received mattress assistance.
Gede Suardika and his wife have two children:
- Daughter (female/13 yo, eight grader)
- Son (male/6 yo, not yet in school)
Sources of income:
- Gede Surdika’s occupation is making Tuak (fermented beverage from Palmyra palm). From selling tuak he gets Rp 30.000 a day.
- His wife raises 2 cattle and 3 pigs of her neighbours’, no fixed income, only gets income when she sells cattle / pigs.
- Gede Surdika gets rice-for-the-poor aid from the government, 2.5 kg/month by paying Rp. 5.000.
Cost of living:
- Children’s school fee is free. Buys school’s uniform and books once a year or when necessary.
- Children’s school allowance: Rp. 5,000 per day
House condition:
- Bed room: 1
- Bed: 1
- Mattress: none
- Floor of semen
- The walls of woven bamboo
- Roof from asbestos
- Electricity: yes
- Water: yes, well water
- Another room: kitchen
- Land status: self-owned
Your help to this family can be in the form of:
- Mattresses and pillows
- Staples or financial aid to buy the necessities of daily living
- Funding for school fees/allowance
- Cattle / pigs aids
- Funding for renovating houses (floors, walls) or for simple house-building
Here are some photos we took.
Address: Br. Goris, Pajarakan Village, Gerokgak, Buleleng Regency
Coordinates: 8°08’57.5″S 114°35’47.7″E (View on Google Maps)