Founder and CEO ROLE Bali, a non-profit humanitarian organization whose purpose is to improve education, welfare and autonomy people living in disadvantaged circumstances, while ensuring environmental resilience and sustainability.
Where were you born and raised?
I went to school in Queensland. I left school at sixteen and worked for the National Bank before returning to the company sod where I was raised. At 17, I joined the Australian Army for three years. I was a scout in the infantry before, even if I did not engage in active combat. I spent seventy percent of my time in the Australian bush and a few months of ground defense in Butterworth, Malaysia. I returned to agriculture and soon after sold the farm. I almost went bankrupt in developing fifteen townhouses because the manufacturer ruin. Eventually I met my Japanese woman and started a jewelry business in Bali in 2005. We sold in Japan, USA and Australia.
When you come here to Bali?
My first visit to Bali was in 1980 and I came every six months. When I started doing business here in 1985, I am every month for a week. I began living here full time in 2005. I moved to Kuta Beach in Nusa Dua in 2007 and that is when ROLE began.
ROLE How has it evolved?
I saw waste throughout Indonesia, even on islands without inhabitants. After being badly torn in the business, I decided to start a nonprofit organization to improve conditions in areas of greatest need. The encroaching development and its impact on nature and people affected me deeply. When we examined the waste management systems in Indonesia and Bali in particular, we saw a huge need help. All lower government services that we take for granted in the West are not properly planned, developed and managed here. Consequently, those most in need and most dependent on the natural environment are the most affected. Competences in this field are sorely lacking. That's what inspired our ambassadors of the environment and our Eco Kids programs and our programs off campus to educate people about the environment, a healthy diet and good exercise. We also educate the Balinese people to become councilors and form of advice on waste management.
What Bali Wise?
When you go to the beach up polluted rivers, we arrive to the community. The community needs jobs, sustainable jobs environmentally. Most of the poorest areas send their boys to school and spend all their income on boys. While Bali Wise was created. Bali Wise has two programs :. Female Education Skills Campus Bali Wise and women development programs at Centre Island Sustainability
How many programs ROLE implement now?
We have five programs, subprograms fifteen and five projects under implementation. These include the aforementioned programs, such as our farms and permaculture beach cleaners. Despite high levels of regional and international investment in Bali tourism sector, many people do not benefit from the current rapid investment, but are negatively affected by the loss of arable land, environmental degradation and development of inflation-based price of basic daily necessities. Overfishing has contributed to job losses in this sector. The poor and unskilled are most affected. Illiterate lacking skills are increasingly unemployed, underemployed and underpaid. Women are the most affected, with unqualified women receiving 50-70 percent less than the official minimum wage Bali. In addition, there is strong cultural and traditional bias the role of women in the workplace. Most women here have no right to the assets of the family. If men remarry the first wife is repeatedly left without income or assets and no legal recourse even if they had the money to hire a lawyer. This affects their children, creating another generation living in poverty without opportunities.
Mike O'Leary, second from the left
What is your vision for Bali in the future?
My hope is to get Bali updated with the developed world in terms of essential services such as waste management and drainage. Bali is over-developed, while basic services are not in place. I hope to see the coastal areas and revitalized through sustainability, education and environmental support programs a cleaner, greener Bali is possible. We all need to focus on our own power to make the necessary changes in this dynamic to ensure sustainable future for next generations. While the focus is on profit, basic infrastructure is falling apart because the necessary services are not implemented. This will inevitably lead to a decline in tourism and manufacturing. To support the welfare of Balinese and a healthy economy, these sustainability issues should be implemented today through education and government support. Laws to do must be properly applied and the public informed on how a clean green future is viable. I hope to see Bali and Indonesia become more educated and aware, capable of promoting gender equality and empowering women to educate and take care of the next generation having the rights currently assigned only to men.
How people involved and help ROLE Bali?
We welcome all contributions. We also offer a full corporate giving program, multi-level approach provides seamless with the flexibility to tailor your gifts to be beneficial for your business. We work with our donors in a very holistic manner, creating methods to integrate companies or individuals with relevant programs for their interests.
As an NGO non profit hundred percent, ROLE Bali relies on the generosity of each. Volunteers give their time and others choose to raise money for us. You can decide to donate any amount that suits your budget. We thank you kindly for your help and we ensure that you will see wonderful results of your donation through our programs.
For more information on the role of Bali, visit: www.rolefoundation.org
or by phone: (0361) 8078805 or ( 62 ) 933113229 or call Mike ( 62) 081 933 113 229
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