Nengah Kantun, a Poor Family in Br. Adat Sirang, Macang Village, Bebandem, Karangasem

Date of visit: July 24, 2020

Name: Nengah Kantun (M / 32 years old)

Occupation: coconut tree climber, odd job worker

Address: Br. Adat Sirang, Macang Village, Bebandem District, Karangasem Regency

Wife Name: Made Asih (F / 25 years old)

Occupation: Housewife

Contact number: 0852-3840-0091, I Wayan Sudarsana – BCC Volunteer in Karangasem

Category: underprivileged family

If you want to become a permanent donor for Nengah Kantun, we will create a bank account in his name so that you can help him directly.
Bank Account: not yet available

Permanent Donors:

Balipockets Alexander Mühlhause covers the costs for school supplies, starting December 2020
Please contact us if you want to be a permanent donor for this family.

Update on February 3rd, 2021; Nengah Kantun has received mattress and pillow assistance.

Update on May 8th, 2021; Nengah Kantun has moved, there is no information on where his new place is.

Nengah Kantun and his wife have 4 children:

1 st child: F / 8 years old / first grade elementary school
2 nd child: F / 6.5 years / kindergarten
3 rd child: M / 4 years
4 th child: has passed away

The location of the 1 st child’s school is about 1 km from home, she goes to school on foot.

Source of income:

Nengah Kantun works as a coconut tree climber/ odd job worker with a wage of Rp. 60,000 per day, in one month he can work as much as 6 times.
If there is harvest in the dry fields, about once every 3 months, he gets a harvest of around Rp. 300,000.
His wife is a housewife, taking care of her 3 children at home.
They raise several chickens.

Cost of living:

School fee of the 1 st child is free. Pay clothing and book fee once a year or if necessary.
2 nd child school fee is Rp. 20,000 per month.
1 st child pocket money: Rp. 3,000, 2 nd child : 5,000 per day

House condition: the location of the house is in the middle of a moor, the house is almost collapsed, fortunately the landlord provides a loan of money to buy concrete poles and a wooden roof frame to make a new house because the current house condition is quite poor.

Number of bedrooms: 1
Number of beds: 2
Number of mattresses: none
Other rooms: kitchen
The ground as floor
Walls made of bamboo
Roofs of zinc and asbestos
Electricity is available
Water is not available, he is looking for water in the river which is about 400 meters from his house
Land status: not owned

Your assistance to this family can be in the form of:

Mattresses and pillows 2 sets
Basic food or financial assistance to buy daily necessities
Funding assistance for children’s school fees / supplies
Assistance with bicycles or children’s toys
School supplies for children; bags, shoes, books and stationery

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Here are some photos we took.