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Help Refugee Women Bogor Indonesia

This month (September 2015) I have met  a woman, Kalsoom who is a trained health worker, living in Bogor Indonesia. She is a refugee; one of 1200 women in Bogor who are stranded there due to an unwillingness of countries including Australia to allocate spaces enough for them to be resettled and get on with their lives.

As well as providing health promotion workshops with information and basics like antifungal cream, toothpaste, band aids and water purification tablets, Kalsoom is also conducting sewing workshops.

On average the women have been there in limbo for 2-3 years, with no end in sight. Kalsoom tries to build a sense of a community with the women, share information and support and help them learn skills in sewing and dressmaking. But she needs help.  

The women are from a range of ethnic backgrounds, Iraqi, Iranian, Afghani, Sri Lankan and all trying to make good in a very hard situation. They're not permitted to work or have a bank account in Indonesia. Kalsoom is a volunteer.

I have been discussing the project with Kalsoom and we think $5000 Australian dollars will fund her sewing classes which are twice a week with 15 women in each group for the whole year.

As well as provide enough money for "health kits" for 12 months. I hope that you can see it in your heart to donate to this worthy cause and get behind a wonderful woman who, in the face of adversity is doing the very best she can for women refugees in Bogor Indonesia.

If you have ever felt like giving but you haven't wanted to give to a large organisation, or maybe you just want to know some refugee women in our region are being helped, give to this project. Share this with your friends, because it is through the actions of a few that we can provide some small support to people in real hardship with little to no access to healthcare, unclean water and no way of earning. You can make a real difference in their lives NOW.

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Rhonda Balzan Bastow
Organizer
Marrickville NSW
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