BEATS is a small charity, with no employees, only volunteers. It maintains a close and personal relationship between its supporters and projects, so that groups and individuals are able to choose to support people and projects to which they can relate. This video explains how and why BEATS started.
BEATS primarily operates in Indonesia, collaborating with five organisations. We partner with GBI Church in Ambon (E Indonesia) to aid earthquake victims through home rebuilding, child sponsorship and a start-up business loan program. Additionally in Sumatra (NW Indonesia) we work alongside YSI, which conducts disaster preparedness and runs micro enterprise schemes as well as YACAN who operate a Children's Home. YASERA helps communities with disaster preparedness along with health and development programmes in various locations in Indonesia.
Nias Island Midwifery Clinic
Update May 26
The clinic has been built, the necessary equipment has been ordered and delivered from the Sumatran mainland. The accompanying photograph shows some of the equipment.
BEATS is providing funding for the construction of this much-needed dedicated midwifery clinic on Nias Island, west of Sumatra. Nias regency is an impoverished area of the island where mortality rates for mothers and babies are high because there are no facilities other than in the capitol.
This project is the vision of a young woman (Destin), a victim of the Nias Island earthquake and who lived at a BEATS-supported children's home. BEATS sponsored her education and, having qualified as the top student in her year group at midwifery university, she has the vision and ability to provide this safe and professional place for women to give birth. Despite not yet having the clinic facilities, Destin has already helped 6 mothers to succesfully give birth; babies don't wait for clinics to be built!
Daniel and Maria and their 3 older children live in a Christian village approximately 1 hour's drive from Ambon City. They have been living in the shack in the photo since the earthquake in September 2019. BEATS has provided funds for a new house which has now been completed (see photo).
BEATS is a small charity which can only provide grants for new houses one at a time as funds are received. For information on how BEATS has already helped in Ambon see the information on our Ambon page.
