Kompas TV filmed Dr Sari, YRS staff and Peer Educators in the parking area and basement at Pasar Badung on 13 April 2016. The reporter followed Dr Sari as she talked with the vendors about their experiences and feelings after the fire. The vendors are really feeling the loss of the clinic and ask Dr Sari…
14Mar
After the Fire
It’s been two weeks since the fire which destroyed the first three floors of Pasar Badung, and severely affected our medical and office equipment. We are still calculating the total cost of the damage. Pasar Badung has been completely evacuated and closed. We are extremely thankful however to have our Sanur clinic, and our Secretariat office…
02Mar
Fire at Pasar Badung – all YRS staff safe
Dear friends and supporters, As some of you may have heard, Pasar Badung, where YRS is located on the 4th floor, was afflicted by a very severe fire yesterday. According to news reports the fire was burning for more than 11 hours. The extent of the damage to the inside of the market is not…
04Feb
Our Action-Packed January!
YRS has had an absolutely action-packed start to 2016. Flash Charity Bali, a group of Indonesian and expat women who hold fundraising luncheons for various charities in Bali, visited our clinic to make a generous donation and express their enthusiasm to partner with YRS. On 25 January, we received a group of international journalists in…
04Jan
Our Fantastic 2015 & Plans for 2016
Happy New Year to all our friends and supporters! YRS spent a lot of time in 2015 developing our second Five Year Strategic Plan, the major components of which are based on our new aspirational statement: Towards 2020 YRS will ensure fewer Balinese women develop female cancers, and more enjoy good sexual and reproductive health….
15Oct
Record turnout for Mobile Clinic in Bontihing
YRS staff were overjoyed by the enormous turnout to their Mobile Clinic in Desa Bontihing, North Bali, on Saturday October 3. 290 people attended the Mobile Clinic, which was conducted in the Bontihing Bale Banjar, beneath a 120-year-old durian tree. General health check-ups and sexual and reproductive health services were delivered, as well as an…
04Sep
Cerita Pasar – Market Stories 1
YRS conducted a mobile clinic next to the fish market in the village of Kedonganan, South Bali, on August 19. For the first of YRS’ monthly Cerita Pasar – Market Stories, Gung Ayu, an outreach worker, describes her experience. “We were surrounded by the typical smell of fish and faced with the hot sun and…
19Aug
Mobile Clinics bring smiles and better sexual health to Bali’s traditional markets!
Yayasan Rama Sesana has been rolling out its Mobile Clinics twice a month this year, in order to reach even more low-income women in Bali’s traditional market communities. Thousands of Balinese women have extremely limited access to reproductive and sexual health services. To increase their access and to improve their lives and communities, YRS travels…
11May
Mobile Clinic Services in Singaraja
A mobile clinic was conducted in Singaraja at the local community center (Balai Banjar Lebah Desa Kaliasem) on Saturday, 9 May 2015. YRS was invited by the local leader to offer sexual and reproductive health services because they are not usually provided in the area. YRS conducted the education and medical services from 8am…