Here’s a spotlight on one of the communities where your support can make a real difference.

Roboaba, Indonesia, is a community of 915 people. The majority of households have five to six family members.

Out of the 256 households in Roboaba, only 80 use electricity, 30 use solar energy and the rest use oil lamps. Just 112 households have a toilet but there are 15 public toilets around the village.

If you lived in Roboaba, you would most likely go home to a house with palm leaves for a roof and palm branches for walls. Kitchens are usually in a separate location since most people still use stone furnaces for cooking. Your staple meal would be beans with palm sugar.

Many people cultivate paddy fields in the rainy season as well as raise pigs and goats. There are 75 wells in the village, however, in the dry season from June to October, water is limited so the government is looking into constructing a dam. There are also two water springs for washing and farming.

As there is no public transport in Roboaba, those who are fortunate enough to be able to attend high school have to walk 7km to the nearest town, Seba. School runs from 7.15am-1pm from Monday to Saturday, which means children need to leave home at 5am to make their classes.

You can invest in mothers in communities like Roboaba and help their families leave poverty behind. Your gift can help a mother start a business growing farms, vegetable stalls or trading kiosks, giving them a reliable income to afford nutritious food, improved shelter, transport and education for their children.