The latest report detailing WHI’s efforts to help those displaced by the eruption of Mount Merapi.
More than 800 displaced people have taken refuge at a Wesleyan Bible School campus near Mount Merapi.
75,000 people have been displaced as the evacuation zone has been expanded to 12 miles and the volcano shows no sign of settling down.
After the tsunami of 2004 devastated Indonesia, WHI started formulating plans to help the country rebuild in substantive, lasting ways. The result of this desire led to the construction of a state-of-the-art, earthquake-proof agricultural high school on the island of Nias.
WHI’s International Programs Director Megan Nykyforchyn-Clark recently traveled to Indonesia where she visited with clients of HS-Micro, WHI’s local microfinance institution. She shared this story with us.
The horticulture and food-processing vocational school teaches practical skills that are important for a nation trying to feed 230 million people on a relatively small amount of land.