Indonesia has the fourth-largest population in the world with more than 240 million people.  The vast majority of the population is poor with an average annual income of less than US$300.  Bali has a population of about 2.5 million people of which about 12,500 have disabilities.  98% of the Balinese are Hindu.

According to the statistics from the Social Department, there are 1,727 people with disabilities in the Gianyar region.  However only 57 of them went to Senior High School and 867 (almost half) have never being to school at all.  In the Bangli region  there are 1,158 people with disabilities, of whom 53 went to High School and 530 (almost half) never went to school at all.

We are helping people of all ages.  Many are victims of polio who contracted the disease before  preventive inoculations were available.  Many of our clients had never seen a wheelchair in their lives, never been out of their houses, and never gone to school.