YSI, who have been working in earthquake and tsunami affected areas since 2005, are working in the Philippines and Sumatra, NW Indonesia using grants supplied by BEATS to provide disaster-preparedness training and to provide micro-enterprise training, for example sewing, for widows and others so they can support themselves.
After the 2018 7.5 magnitude earthquake, tsunami and liquefaction in Sulawesi, Indonesia BEATS supplied funds to YSI for initial disaster relief and support to assist communities to become self-sufficient again.
YSI followed up the initial disaster relief with helping the villagers to start micro-enterprise schemes, and then the formation of a co-operative which has enabled them to free themselves from wholesalers and money lenders and so retain much more of the profit from their produce.