Date of Visit: 14 March 2019
Name: I Wayan Arnata (Male/36 years old)
Occupation: farm worker, casual labour
Address: Dusun Dukuh, Bebandem Village, Karangasem
Name of Spouse: Ni Ketut Murniasih (Female/34 years old)
Occupation: farm worker, casual labour
Contact number:
- 0857-3933-3660 – Dusun Dukuh’s Chief; I Komang Ardana
- 0852-3840-0091 –BCC volunteer Karangasem Area; I Wayan Sudarsana
Category: poor family
Should you wish to be a regular donor for the family, we will make a bank account with the family as beneficiary. This way you could help them directly.
Regular Donor:
- Please kindly contact us should you wish to become a regular donor for this family.
Update on July 9th, 2019; Wayan Arnata received house renovation fund from BCC.
Update on August 14th, 2019; Wayan Arnata has received quite a lot of assistance from several donors. For equal distribution, please help another residents.
Wayan Arnata and his wife has three children:
- 1st child: Wayan Sudiarta (Male/12 years old/Year 5)
- 2nd child: Kadek Sudiartika (Male/10 years old/Year 4)
- 3rd child: Komang Ari Dwiguna (Male/4 years old/not going to school yet)
The distance of the 1st child’s school and 2nd child school is about 500 meters, they go to school by foot.
Source of income:
- Wayan Arnata and his wife work as a farm worker, they plant rice or secondary crops. When the harvest time comes (every 3-4 months), they could earn Rp. 200.000 – 500.000. If there is a job at material shop nearby their house – they will be called to work there as a casual labour : to carry the sand, cement, wood etc with wage of Rp. 30.000 per day for 2 person, they could work at the material shop 1-3 times in a week.
- To gain extra income, they also raise 3 cows and 2 pigs.
- They haven’t received the Rice for the poor program from the government.
Living Cost:
- School tuition is free. They pay uniform fee and book fee once in a year or whenever necessary.
- Pocket money for the kids: Rp. 5.000 per child per day.
House condition: quite concerning, the woods that holding the ceiling are old, the ceiling is falling down, the roof is leaking everywhere, door and window are broken, old building.
- Bedroom: 3; 2 bedroom could not be used due to leaking, 1 bedroom used by the mother, everyone else sleeping at the living room on a plastic carpet without bed.
- Bed base: none
- Bed: none
- Other rooms: kitchen, storage. Kitchen’s wall falling due to Lombok’s earthquake couple months ago.
- Ceramic Tiled floor
- Brick wall
- Clay roof, it is leaking and old, seems like it almost falling off.
- Electricity access
- Water access from the well
- Land status: belongs to the family
Should you wish to donate, please kindly consider to donate:
- Bed and pillow
- Groceries or funds to buy daily needs
- Funds to help pay the cost of kids education or pocket money.
- Kids bike or kids toys
- School equipment; bag, shoes, books and stationery
- A help in form of piglets or cow
- Funds to help renovate the house (door, windows, ceiling and the roof)
Below are the pictures that we took during our visit.
Address: Dusun Dukuh, Bebandem Village, Karangasem
Coordinates: 8°26’02.1″S 115°33’38.7″E (View on Google Maps)