PPMK Jogja – Pemberdayaan Perempuan Memerangi Kemiskinan

Jetakan women group receives new loan slide

Making tofu

Mrs. Salbilah makes tempe

Mrs. Siti makes Emping Mlinjo ( Mlinjo bean chip)

One of our visitor makes sambal ( chilli grinding)

The farmers are enjoy their tea break

The first day of cooking training

The kids with Ms.Ruby and Ms. Freya in English class

The women participants in sewing training wear the cloths of their practice product

Visiting the villagers

Women's group

processing "padi" into rice

PPMK women sew at home

make bricks (element for building)

make gerabah (kitchen tools made from clay)

make make chips of melinjo

About PPMK Jogja

Sulastri Miharja
Director

The idea for PPMK (Empowering Women to Fight Poverty) began informally in 2002 when PPMK’s founder, Jack Wilson, attended an inspiring workshop conducted by Amanda Zinn, President of ‘Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore’. On Jack Wilson’s arrival back to Indonesia, he realized that we could do micro-finance here. Jack is a Vietnam Veteran & as luck would have it, about that time he got a generous ‘service related’ disability award from Veteran’s Administration. It was like ‘blood’ money, and it rapidly became clear to Jack that half of it should go to ending poverty which is a big part of the reason we have wars. more about ppmk..