This is Mr. Rahim, who recovered from tuberculosis (TB) taking medicine SEEDS workers helped him to obtain. The SEEDS health promotion program in Riau, Indonesia, first helped Mr. Rahim’s wife seven years ago, when she was pregnant and suffering from TB. Unfortunately, she discontinued her medicine before treatment was complete, her unborn baby died, and her husband was infected. The World Health Organization reports that an untreated TB patient spreads the disease to between ten and 15 additional people per year.

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SEEDS partner charity Saya Suka Membaca (‘I Love Reading’) works to improve opportunities for children across Indonesia to learn to read. In partnership with other organisations the charity provides curriculum, books and other materials and teacher training to teachers at pre-school and early primary levels.

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Programs need to stay relevant to the ever-changing felt needs of a given society. Understanding the culture that we are serving from a sociological perspective is a crucial element to staying relevant with the actual felt needs of the times.

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Many studies have linked exercise with higher quality of life not just in young people, but especially in elderly people. Most retired men and women in Southern Thailand don’t have much to do during the day and become very inactive, which in turn can result in reduced physical capabilities. This can also lead to feelings of worthlessness and depression.

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Following three years of investment into Psychology lecturers’ English language ability and methodology of delivering their subjects in English, the time came to move on and partner with other faculties at the State Islamic University of Sultan Syarif Kassim in Riau, Indonesia. This decision was made in light of local lecturers becoming increasingly familiar and confident with using English as the medium of instruction for their classes, and also a number of program participants successfully applying for further study abroad.

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One of the biggest challenges facing fishing communities is uncertainty. They live at the mercy of storms, stocks and prices. When the fish are close inshore and the weather is fair there is good money to be made until the market gets flooded. When the storms come, prices rise but boats can’t go out to sea and it is fishermen’s houses that get flooded. Wildly fluctuating income makes saving difficult and can lead to a debt cycle that local people call “digging a hole- filling a hole”.

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Expanding our work in a new community characterized by urban poverty, we offered a teacher assistance program to two local kindergartens. Over the course of 3 months, we conducted workshops on teaching theories, human growth, class management and special needs with teachers who are dedicated to improving the welfare of young children affected by insufficient economic provision, poor nutrition, and lack of parental support.

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A new partnership has recently started between SEEDS and a university in Sumatra, Indonesia. A SEEDS consultant has started teaching in three different departments on two campuses and is investing in future teachers and other students.

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