Our accomplishments to date are the first step on a long journey. Unlike most aid organizations, whose projects have a two to six year lifespan, The Sumba Foundation vision extends to 20 years and beyond.

We realize that there is no quick fix to alleviating poverty, and that to overcome it will take generations of hard work and dedication to achieving the goals that we have set for ourselves.

We are working outwards from our headquarters at Nihiwatu, on the southwest coast of Sumba, where already thousands of Sumbanese are benefiting from our work.

As we succeed in completing water, health and education projects to our satisfaction we then move out to the next bordering area. In this manner we can establish an infrastructure and supply system that is efficient and under control.

We expect that at the end of our twentieth year, in 2021, we will have drilled wells in more than 400 villages, thereby providing over 60,000 people with clean safe water, the necessary foundation for better health and hygiene.

Through our network of 48 clinics, 72,000 Sumbanese will have well-trained medical staff and a reliable supply of medicines available to help with their medical needs. We will have distributed 30,000 mosquito nets protecting over 60,000 people from the devastating effects of Malaria.

Our education programs will be supporting 43 primary schools that are teaching more than 13,000 young children each year. Those students will be provided with a safe and well maintained learning environment, a steady flow of school supplies and a very important healthy lunch each day.

Our scholarship program will provide 450 High School and 280 University scholarships to children from our sponsored primary schools, and upon graduation we will bring them back home to help their people by working for The Sumba Foundation projects.

Gainful employment is critical to the success of any long-term aid program and we will continually be seeking ways to create employment for those who desire it. The Sumba Foundation's agro-business programs train and encourage business partnerships with the budding tourism industry. We provide scholarships for men and women to attend hotel training schools and to find employment for the graduates at Nihiwatu Resort.

Others will be supported trough university to return to work with The Sumba Foundation as doctors, nurses, educators and agronomists.

Our efforts aim to promote enhanced income opportunities for the people of the villages by creating markets for the handicrafts the women make so well.

Our goal is to create thousands of well paying jobs and to start small economies growing in the remote regions of the island. In so doing we will have set in motion the beginnings of the end of poverty on the island.