Health Improvement

Free Cataract Surgery

Disturbed by the large number of people with cataracts, PT Adaro Indonesia has collaborated with the Yayasan Kemanusiaan Indonesia to provide free cataract surgeries for local communities since May 2003.

The program has covered 6 regencies within Adaro’s operational area: Tabalong, Balangan, Hulu Sungai Utara, East Barito, South Barito, and Barito Kuala.

This program is expected to help the patients regain their normal sight so they can be productive in society. The surgeries are conducted in mobile eye clinics by eye surgeons adhering to international standards.

Up to the end of 2009, Adaro and its partners have provided surgery for 3,608 people with cataracts.

Through the mobile cataract project, Adaro has
provided free cataract surgery to more than 3,600
people in the community.

The Maternal, Newborn & Child Health Program

One of the references used in formulating Adaro’s CSR program is the Eight Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce child mortality rate and improve maternal health. This program is highly relevant due to the problems faced by South Kalimantan province in the area of maternal and child health.

In this program PT Adaro Indonesia collaborates with the Indonesian White Ribbon Alliance (APPI) in developing the Maternal, Newborn & Child Health program. APPI is a care movement dedicated to maternal safety that puts individuals, organizations, and communities together in collaboration to accommodate safe pregnancy and childbirth for each woman.

The Maternal, Newborn & Child Health program is aimed at enhancing the awareness of efforts to save and protect mothers, newborns, and children, facilitating the improvement of health service, and supporting the government in the aspects of health and humanity.

In villages where the program is conducted, besides providing education on maternal, infant, and reproductive health and healthy lifestyles, program activities are also directed toward economic enhancement for women as well as the enhancement of their roles in village development.

For example, mothers are encouraged to improve their welfare by cultivating vegetables which not only help to fulfill their needs for daily nutrition but also contribute to family income. Going forward, it is expected that the mothers’ gardens will be used to add nutritious food at pre and post natal village clinics.

The Maternal, Newborn & Child Health program also provides nursing scholarships to local teenagers to encourage them to return and help the health service in their villages. This program is supported by the Health Office of both Tabalong and Balangan regencies.

PT Adaro Indonesia has also built the infrastructure for health services to improve maternal, newborn& child health called Community Health Center in Dahai – South Kalimantan. Warukin village is also used as a Maternal, Newborn & Child Health model village.

In addition, Adaro also provides maternity funds for families living under the poverty line.

The launching of maternal, newborn and child
health programs to reduce child mortality and
improve maternal health.

Clean Water Program

Under a concept called 3R (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle), Adaro processes water resources from the mine through a water treatment plant to provide a source of clean drinking water which benefits local communities.

The water treatment plant, known as WTP T-300, has production capacity of 20 liters/second or 72m3/hour, with two holding tanks of 450 m3 and 72 m3 capacity that are used to store the clean water generated by the process.

This clean drinking water is currently distributed by tank truck for use by Adaro’s employees and partners, as well as communities in Dahai and Padang Panjang and, in the near future, this clean water will be distributed through a pipeline that is currently under construction to these two villages.

Adaro’s WTP T-300 Clean Water Program was recognized by the Ministry of Social Affairs in the CSR Award 2008 as the Second Best under the Environment category for a program to generate clean water by processing waste mine water.

WTP T-300 processes water resources from the
mine through a water treatment plant to provide
clean drinking water to local communities.

Other Social Activities

In addition to dedicating its CSR programs to empowering the community surrounding its mining site, Adaro also contributes to a number of social activities at the national scale, such as:

1. Collaborating with Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in a program called “Beasiswa Untuk Semua” (Scholarships for Everyone) for academic year 2009/2013. Adaro has donated a sum of Rp500,000,000 to support five selected ITB students consisting of three students of Mechanical& Aerospace Engineering, one student of Mathematics and Science, and one student of the School of Life Sciences and Technology, to support their education for four years.
2. Adaro donated Rp300,000,000 to Yayasan Jati Diri Bangsa to support its character education project which carries the mission to improve the character of the society. This project is targeted at teachers, school principals, school superintendents, and students.
3. Adaro also donated Rp50,000,000 to support the education foundation Karya Salemba Empat, which was founded in 1998 to provide financial support to Indonesian educational institutions in the form of scholarships for students and other learning and educational support. The foundation awards scholarships to students who require additional funds to support their studies.
   

With its commitment of “Developing Together with the Community”, Adaro will continue to make contributions to support social activities.