Our goal is to eliminate malnutrition and the causes of poverty in the communities we serve.

The Foundation for Mother and Child Health (FMCH), known locally as Yayasan Balita Sehat, began as a support group for English speaking mothers and has grown into an organisation that provides support and educational programmes for impoverished Indonesian mothers and their children. In 2001 we opened a mother-and-child centre in South Jakarta and became a registered charity under Indonesian law. Several projects outside Jakarta has and had been running in West Timor, Aceh and Padang. The Foundation for Mother and Child Health/Yayasan Balita Sehat, provides meals, medical care and lessons for both Indonesian mothers and their children. Mothers have access to health education and small skills training programmes and children have the opportunity to benefit from a preschool education and primary school scholarships. Many of the children suffer from undernutrition and all of them come from impoverished backgrounds. FMCH have run early learning centres (ELC) in South Jakarta and West Timor. These centres enable children from poor families to attend preschool.

Feeding programme
Health and nutrition education
Training for health workers
Medical support
Income generation
Children’s education