Bali Caring Community

Made Selat, Poor Elderly in Br. Goris Asri, Pajarakan Village, Gerokgak Buleleng

Time of visit: 2 June 2017

Name: Made Selat (Male/around 70 yo)

Occupation: Raising pigs for meat

Address: Br. Goris Asri, Pajarakan Village, Gerokgak, Buleleng Regency

Wife’s name: Nyoman Sukreni (Female/Around 70 yo)

Occupation: Worker to make Canang (Balinese offering)

Contact phone number: 0853-3360-3315, Made Wiradnya, local volunteer

Category: poor elderly

Bank Account: Bank BRI, No.: 4754-01-009798-53-8, Beneficiary: I Made Selat

Regular sponsor:

  1. Please contact us if you want to be a regular sponsor for Made Selat

Update on August 7th, 2019; Made Selat received housing assistance.

Update on January 24th, 2021; Made Selat has received mattress assistance.

Update on January 15, 2022; view updates at the bottom of this page.

BIG

Made Selat and his wife have;

  • 2 daughters
  • 4 sons
  • 5 children are married, 1 person is still single and live with him.
  • 5 children only finished primary school, 1 graduated from junior high school

Source of income:

  • Due to his old age and sickness, Made Selat was unable to work hard, he only kept two pigs, no fixed income, only income when he sold pigs.
  • His wife works to make a Canang with an average income of Rp. 300,000 per month.
  • He gets gets rice-for-the-poor aid from the government, 4 kg/month by paying Rp. 8.000.

House conditions:

  • Number of bedrooms: 1
  • Number of cots / bed: 2
  • Number of mattresses: 1
  • Floors of ground
  • The walls of woven bamboo are covered with used banners
  • Roof from tile and asbestos
  • Electricity exists
  • Water is there, well water
  • Another room: kitchen
  • Land status: tiller

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
  • Pigs livestock aids
  • Funding for renovating houses (floors, walls) or for simple house-building

Here are some photos we took.

House
House
House
House
House
House
Bedroom 1
Bedroom 1
Bedroom 2
Bedroom 2
Kitchen
Kitchen

Address: Br. Goris Asri, Pajarakan Village, Gerokgak, Buleleng Regency
Coordinates: 8°08’40.2″S 114°35’13.2″E (View on Google Maps)

Update on January 15, 2022

On January 15, 2022, we visited Made Selat at his house. Some updates are as follows:

  • Made Selat already received a new-house assistance in 2019, but he did not occupy the house. He still lives in his old house because he can still raise chickens and other livestock. The new house is occupied by his son.
  • Bank account: active

Here’s the documentation.

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