Komang Ayu Ariani, An Orphan in Dusun Pejarakan, Pejarakan Village, Gerokgak, Buleleng

Date of Visit: 7th February 2019

Name: Komang Ayu Ariani (F /13 years old/ 6th grade elementary school student)

Brother’s Name: Ketut Agus Guna Wirawan (M / 10 years old/ 4th grade elementary school student)

Address: Dusun Pejarakan, Pejarakan Village, Gerokgak District, Buleleng Regency

Grandfather’s name: Wayan Cidra (M / 70 years old)

Occupation: farmers, cattleman

Telephone number that can be contacted: 0853-3360-3315 – Made Wiradnya; BCC Volunteers in the Buleleng

Note: an orphan

Bank Account: Bank BRI, No. 4754-01-001094-50-8, Beneficiary: Ni Komang Ayu Ariani

Regular Donors:

Rani Family, 100.000 Rupiah per month starting May 2019
Balipockets Nina Haffner covers the costs for the first child’s school supplies, starting May 2019
Putu Agustini, 100.000 Rupiah per month starting February 2020
Please contact us if you want to be a regular donor for Komang Ayu Ariani.

Update on January 21, 2021; Her grandmother is passed away.

Komang Ayu Ariani and her brother, Ketut Agus Guna Wirawan, live with their grandparents. Her father died, her mother remarried. The distance from school from her home is around 500 meters, she and her brother go to school on foot.

Source of income:

Grandparents work as corn farmers, they plant / harvest once a year, crops stored to be eaten / not sold.
They get income if they sell livestock, they raise 2 cows, 2 pigs and several chickens.
They get rice-for –the-poor assistance (Raskin) from the government as much as 10 kg per month by paying Rp. 3,000.

Cost of living:

School tuition fees are free, pay clothes and book money once a year or if necessary
Pocket money Rp. 2,000 – 5,000 per child per day
House condition: there are 2 buildings
Number of bedrooms: 2
Number of cots / beds: 2
Number of mattresses: 3 (1 bed without cots)
The floor in room 1 is made from cement, the floor in room 2 is made from soil and brick
Both building wall made from bricks
Both building rof made from tile
Electricity exists
Water is available, water from the mountain is stored in water tanks
Other rooms: kitchen, bathroom
Land status: owned

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

Basic food or financial assistance to buy daily necessities
Funding assistance for school fees / provisions
Children’s bicycle assistance, school supplies; bags, shoes, books and stationery
Cattle or pigs assistance

Here are some photos that we took.