FOSTERSHIP PROGRAM for Children with Disabilities ABOUT THIS PROJECT PUSPADI Bali believes people with disabilities should be empowered to live out their dreams and reach and realize their full potential as a human right and dignity. We are the only NGO in Bali providing high-quality mobility aids, education & training and advocacy programs to people…
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Three Dynamic Balinese Women Holding Their Own Against Disability Bias
Women with disabilities are considered some of the most vulnerable and marginalised in society – experiencing double discrimination and often facing numerous physical and social barriers in the workplace, educational sector, and in policy making. People with disabilities, particularly women, are more likely to experience adverse socioeconomic outcomes than those without, such as less…
Defying the disability stigma: an entrepreneur running a gaming business
On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we honor those like Wahyu, an entrepreneur, family man and agent of change who doesn’t let his physical disability define him. When I Made Wahyu Diatmika was in junior high school, a condition he’s still not sure of began weakening his muscles and by senior high school, it left…
Jobseekers with disabilities rising above discrimination in Bali
Cai’s new job gives him hope for his future Cai loves the prospect of preparing to go to work each day at Rumah Sanur, earning an income and saving for his future. Through PUSPADI Bali’s Soft and Hard Skills Training Program, Cai initially secured an internship at Rumah Sanur helping their IT staff with web…
Meet Okta: once a child caring for her paralysed father and now helping others at PUSPADI Bali
At age 12, Okta had to grow up fast after her father became instantly paralysed when he fell out of a jackfruit tree at their home in Karangasem, East Bali. While still at school and after her mother left the family, Okta became the primary carer of her dad who could no longer move and…
The New Generation of Indonesian Women Making Vital Prosthetics & Orthotics
Liana and Puspa knew they wanted to do much more to help people with disabilities who they’d seen struggling without a prosthetic, orthotic or mobility aid on the streets of Jakarta or their hometowns. So, they decided to make it their job. The two driven Indonesian women, both in their twenties, are on the cusp…
Intelligent Balinese Teen Set to Graduate and Take on the World
Globally, an estimated 90% of children with disabilities in the developing world don’t go to school because they face limiting barriers like discrimination, poverty or living in a remote area. In their families or communities, a child with a disability going to school can be wrongly seen as a waste because they’re judged on their different physical…
A Disability Rights Law in Bali Must be Regulated
I Gede Widiasa is a husband and father to two children, working as a masseuse in Denpasar and has been living with low vision since his youth. After grappling a fever when he was two years old, Widiasa lost some of his sight. Widiasa toils to provide for his family like many others in Bali…
PUSPADI Bali Staff Bringing Light into a Person with a Disability’s World
For a child with a disability in Indonesia, their start in life can be marred by an incredibly long struggle to be accepted by their peers, their communities and even within their own families, as some believe it is a form of karma to punish them for past wrongs. The difference between the percentage of…
Sumba Teenager Receives His First Prosthetic Leg As He Steps In A New Direction
Holding the rail inside PUSPADI Bali’s workshop, 13-year-old Yuktan tentatively taps the floor with his first prosthetic leg. He presses down on his feet, moving his two legs up, down and slowly around in a circular motion to connect with a lower left limb that he thought he had lost forever after an accident. A smile…