Date of visit: 6 October 2016
Name: Ni Nyoman Sopak (female/ around 75 years old)
Occupation: not working, raising 1 pig
Her son’s name: I Wayan Buda (male/around 25 years old) – mentally retarded
Occupation: coconut tree climber
Address: Br. Bau Kawan, Nawa Kerti Village, Abang District, Karangasem Regency
Contactable phone number: 0852-3776-6766, Wayan Putu (Head of Nawa Kerti Village)
Category: poor elderly with a mentally retarded children
Bank Account: We did not succeed in making a bank account for her.
Update on October 21st, 2016; Nyoman Sopak received cattle assistance.
Ni Nyoman Sopak and her husband (who has passed away long time ago) has 1 son: I Wayan Buda (male/around 25 years old) with a mental retardation.
Source of income:
- Ni Nyoman Sopak can no longer work because of her age, she can only raise 1 pig that is owned by her neighbor, with a lot of help from Ni Nyoman’s son.
- Her son, I Wayan Buda, works as a coconut tree climber, and he has no fixed income, depending on numbers of request for his services.
- Ni Nyoman obtains free rice for poor people assistance from the government, in the amount of 5 – 10 kg per month.
House conditions: her house was repaired by the provincial government of Bali in 2012.
- Number of bed room: 2
- Number of bed: 1
- Number of mattress: none, they sleep on carpet
- Other room: kitchen
- Floor of cement
- Concrete brick wall
- Roof of asbestos
- Has electricity, attached to her neighbor’s house
- No water, they get waters from the river
- Status of land: as a cultivator
Your donation to this family can be in the form of:
- Mattresses and pillows
- Groceries or funds to buy daily life necessities
- Pig(s) to be raised
- A Stick to help her to walk
Below are some pictures that we have taken.
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Address: Br. Bau Kawan, Nawa Kerti Village, Abang District, Karangasem Regency
Coordinates: 8°22’37.3″S 115°34’25.1″E (View on Google Maps)