Asana Viebeke Lengkong’s IAA has been helping bali’s poorest since 2003.
Asana Viebeke Lengkong
BALI IS NOT all about glamor, as many Balinese live in impoverished and underprivileged communities. I’m an Angel (IAA), a nonprofit organization based in Seminyak, helps these communities in four areas: education, environment, healthcare and microfinance. It works in Bali’s underdeveloped rural areas such as Munti Gunung hamlet, about 180 km from Denpasar. In this village, IAA helped children to attend school.
“Children’s education and women’s health are entry points for us to empower the poor in rural areas because their poverty comes from a lack of education,” says IAA founder Asana Viebeke Lengkong, 58, who owns a successful property business in Seminyak. Although born into an elite family, she was taught about giving back early. Her father was the founder of one of Indonesia’s oldest shipping companies and a supporter of the Indonesian Socialist Party. Her mother was a film star. Their home in Jakarta was always filled with politicians, journalists and activists. Since childhood, Viebeke’s father liked to show her remote and poor parts of Java.
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