Pro Poor Tourism and Sumbanese Art and Culture Travel Experience.

. Pro Poor tourism is set up in developing countries as a means to improve the local economy for local people. It enhances the linkages between tourism businesses and poor people; so that poverty is reduced and poor people are able to participate more effectively in tourism development. The aims of pro-poor ranges from increasing local employment to involving local people in the decision making process. Any type of company can be involved such as a small lodge or a tour operator. The most important factor is not the type of company or the type of tourism, but that poor people receive an increase in the net benefits from tourism. A tourism pro ect with an ob ective to make tourism work for the poor in Indonesia has been identified in !umba Island namely as !umba "illage Art and Travel #$perience, located at !umba Island which is one of the beautiful island in Indonesia which is south of Indonesia which has beautiful beaches as well as flora and fauna is a marketable tourism product in accordance with the ob ective. This pro ect is supported by The !umba %oundation &hich originated from 'ihiwatu (esort and then been take over by 'on ) *overnmental +rgani,ation from Australia and -nited !tates based on charity donations in order to improve the !umbanese people life style. Throughout the year, this pro ect has helped the !umbanese people by improving their life style, health as well as education. This pro ect is utili,ing the natural and cultural resource in !umba Island to be package as a tourism product.

!umba Island 2.0 The Pro-Poor Strategies at Sumba sland In order to improve the !umbanese people life style, there are strategies which in purpose to increasing the economic benefits, enhancing non-economic benefits and building a more supportive policy. In .//0, this pro ect has declared its ob ectives which are increasing the economic benefits of !umbanese people, improving the 1uality of village tourism e$perience; improve the local people with basic facilities. In order to improve the !umbanese people, the !umba %oundation has develop many program in order to help the people to improve their health, food, water, fight against diseases, and education. This development had been created by the !umba %oundation in order to help the people from poverty. ..0 2lean &ater The !umba foundation have been drilling and digging wells since .//0. In that time they have completed 34 wells that are linked by miles of pipe to 05,045 people living in 063 villages. Their water pro ects also provide 05 schools and 00 clinics scattered throughout the region with water. The changes water makes in peoples7 lives are immediate and clearly visible. &ithin months the overall health and well being of a village is transformed for the better, the students at the schools are cleaner and healthier in appearance and the hygiene conditions of clinics and villages are vastly improved. #1ually important is the improved productivity by the women who are now sending their children to school and weaving blankets instead of searching for water most of their lives as before.

... 8ealth Improved healthcare for the !umbanese people. The !umba foundations had built and operate their own primary care medical and malaria clinics. They also work closely with the government midwife clinics that are stationed in the most remote areas in Indonesia. They provide them with e1uipment and !umba foundation doctor helps them improve their medical skills. !trengthen the government7s capacity to deliver better healthcare via improved infrastructure and provision of medical supplies and e1uipment to !umba Island in order the people a health care that they needed. Through the !umba foundation partnership with 9irect (elief International, they had delivered more than 05 tons of supplies and e1uipment to three hospitals and 06 government clinics enabling them to better serve their people.

..: ;alaria !umba Island has one of the highest occurrences of malaria in Asia. An estimated ./< of all children die or become severely brain damaged by malaria before the age of 0/. The foundation village surveys tells that each one in three mothers have lost at least one child to malaria and the clinical surveys of targeted villages show that 6.< of the children below the age of 5 and :/< of the total population surveyed had malaria. The foundation had conducted a baseline testing to establish e$isting malaria infection rates and a population census for each village, the distribution of insecticide treated mos1uito nets for each household, on-going testing and treatment for malaria cases, and consistent monitoring of bed net usage and maintenance. The foundation also provides free mos1uito nets to everyone living in the villages our program covers to protect the people form mos1uito attack. ..3 ;alnutrition 9eveloped a teaching program that focuses on 'utrition education for the people of !umba Island. This program is now being taught in all 0: of the schools that the foundation had support. The children are in the intervention program while the mothers are taught about nutritious food and how to cook healthy meals for their children. They are given powdered milk, eggs and vegetables for up to si$ months until the child recovers. #very week, the staff will monitor the

child7s progress until they have fully recovered. !ince its inception. The foundation have treated and released :6/ children from our intervention program. ..5 %arming Providing the !umba farmers with organic non-*;+ seeds from America and teaching them organic farming methods. This will help them to produce their own nutritious food and will be able to evade the !umba people from starvation. =uilding dwells for the farmers crops, with theses tools not only can they feed their families better but they can also sell their produce at markets to pay for necessities such as school fees and clothing. ..6 #ducation =uilding schools for the !umba children and giving them the education they deserve. The foundation has built 0: primary schools. The education program is mostly focuses on seeding basic health, hygiene and dietary information to the student. The large ma ority of these children will return to their villages between third and si$th grade and within only a few years they will marry and have children of their own. The more knowledge they have the better prepared they will be to help their families stay healthy, to be more productive and to live a better life.

!umba Island !tudent

8ealth care for !umba People

:./ Possible 2onstraints at !umba Island The Issue happen in !umba Island when implementing these strategies is the lack of supply in order to help the !umbanese people throughout the island although the development that being develop by the foundation is a huge success but there7s a lot of thing need to be done at !umba Island in order to help the community especially against ;alaria diseases. ;ost of the original forest has been cleared for developing small cities as well as for the planting of mai,e, cassava and other crops so only small isolated patches remain. %urthermore, this clearance is ongoing due to the growing population of the island and this represents a threat to the birdlife and the nature. The beaches will also will happen to be a problem where most of the beaches will be occupied by resort for tourist destination especially with the new ideas to introduce !umba Island as a surfer destination and in the future when the island will became a mass tourism industry which will threat community people that are

living near the beaches and mostly the beaches will became a private beach only for the tourist and the local community will need to move to another place.