Sumba’s Nihiwatu resort has been giving back through the Sumba Foundation.
SUMBA HAS A PARADOX: It is one of Indonesia’s most beautiful islands yet it also is one of the most impoverished. Healthcare consists of five hospitals with 20 doctors— for a population of 650,000 spread over a island twice the size of Bali. Concerned about these conditions, American Claude Graves, the thenowner of the luxury Nihiwatu resort, established the Sumba Foundation, an NGO in 2001 dedicated to helping the Sumbanese, along with friend and Nihiwatu guest Sean Downs.
The charity’s success and close collaboraton with Nihiwatu gave birth to a long-term partnership between the resort, its guests and the Sumbanese, who work together to support the foundation.
The resort dedicates part of its profits to the foundation. Guests are invited to donate both funds and holiday time to the foundation’s work. In 2012, U.K. billionaire Chris Burch bought majority control of Nihiwatu from Claude, and affirmed his commitment to continue the foundation’s work. To date, he has become the biggest single donor to the foundation. Nevertheless, the majority of the foundation’s donations come from guests and through international fundraising events.
Led by Sean, the foundation’s programs are developed and managed by Claude and Dr. Claus Bogh, a doctor who had done malaria research in three Africa countries before moving to Indonesia in 2001.
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