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Nengah Reni, a poor elderly who works as a scavenger in Bhuana Giri Village, Bebandem, Karangasem

Visit date : 7th May 2021

Name : Nengah Reni (F / about 75 years old)

Occupation : scavenger

Address : Dusun Tegal Bengkak, Bhuana Giri Village, Bebandem District, Karangasem Regency

Phone numbers that can be contacted : 0852-3840-0091, I Wayan Sudarsana – BCC volunteer in Karangasem

Category : poor elderly

If you’d like to become a permanent donor for Nengah Reni, we will create a bank account under her name, so you can help her directly.

Bank Account : not yet available

Permanent Donor:

  1. Zakiah, 100.000 Rupiah per month starting November 2021
  2. Please contact us if you’d like to become a permanent donor for her.

Update on July 29, 2022; Nengah Reni has received mattress and pillow assistance.

Nengah Reni lives alone in a house without electricity nor water. She used to be married before, however is now divorced. She has 1 daughter who is married already and lives with her husband in Ababi Village, Abang District, Karangasem Regency. When there is a ceremony, her daughter would usually visit her, and sometimes she’d bring rice for her.

Source of Income:

  • Nengah Reni works as a scavenger. The junks she picked are then sold 3-4 times in a month to the collector who would come into her house. She would usually get Rp 4.000 – 5.000 everytime she sells it. So in a month, she’d get a maximum of Rp 20.000 income.
  • “Enough or not, I have to make it as enough. I can find cassava leaves as the vegetable accompanying rice,” she said.

Housing condition: She chooses to sleep in her house’s terrace. Her bedroom is used as a storage room.

  • Bedroom : 1
  • Bed divan : 1
  • Mattress : No mattress, she sleeps on carpet
  • Other room: kitchen
  • Cemented floor
  • Brick walls
  • Asbestos roof
  • Electricity is not available
  • Water is not available
  • Land status: allowed to stay at someone else’s land

Your aid for Nengah Reni can be in the following forms:

  • Mattress and pillow
  • Food or fund to buy daily living needs
  • Lamp that can be turned on using oil or battery, flashlight, radio, batteries (because there is no electricity available)

If you have given assistance to her before, please fill in the following form below. Please write down what you have given her, as well as her latest update. This information will be very helpful for other donors who want to visit / help her.

Here are a few photos that we took while we were there.

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Address : Dusun Tegal Bengkak, Bhuana Giri Village, Bebandem District, Karangasem Regency
Coordinates: 8°24’35.0″S 115°33’48.3″E (View on Google Maps)

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