Monday, June 25, 2007
Dolphin Beach Villas in North Bali is located on a Bali fruit plantation
A STORY FROM EVERYDAY LIFE IN BALI…The FAMOUS FRUITS of BALI at Bali Dolphion beach Villas
Bali beach Villas have peanuts and so forth there are others unknown among us in bali, such as the delicious breadfruit (timbul) , jackfruit (nangka) , acacia leaves (twi) , greens (kangkung) , edible ferns (paku) , and extraordinary fruits such as salak, a pear-shaped fruit that grows on a palm, tastes like pineapple and is covered by the most per¬fect imitation snakeskin;
The delicate djambu, fragrant wani, the rambutan (a large sort of grape inside of a hairy transparent pink skin) , the famous mangosteen (manggis) (for which a prize was offered by Queen Victoria to anyone who found the way to bring the fruit in good condition to England) , and the stinking durien (duren in Bali) .
A good deal has been written both in favour of and against this spiky sort of custard apple, whose putrid smell has been compared with every decaying or evil-smelling thing from goats to rancid butter. The meat of the durien is a creamy custard, the undefinable flavour and texture of which develops into a passion among those used to eating it.
Most Europeans, however, object to its offensive smell to such a degree that they forbid their servants to bring durien within a distance of their house. The fruits are eaten raw and the vegetables are boiled or fried after being washed carefully in a special bowl. The Balinese peel vegetables away and not towards themselves, as is done in the West.
Although the Balinese are not fond of sweets, they make a delicious dessert of coconut cream with cinnamon, bananas, or breadfruit steamed in packages of banana leaf.
We have seen that the Balinese women are reduced to the routine of cooking the everyday meal, but when it comes to preparing bali ban¬quet food, it is the men, as is universally the case, who are the great chefs and who alone can prepare the festival dishes of roast suckling pig (be guling) and sea-turtle (penyu) , the cooking of which requires the art of famous specialists.
Few bandjars en¬joyed as great a reputation for fine cooking as Belaluan; there the great banquet dishes were prepared most often because the handjar was prosperous and there lived famous cooks who were always in great demand to officiate at feasts.
Enjoy all these famous fruits on your own villa at Bali dolphin beach Villas
Bali beach Villas have peanuts and so forth there are others unknown among us in bali, such as the delicious breadfruit (timbul) , jackfruit (nangka) , acacia leaves (twi) , greens (kangkung) , edible ferns (paku) , and extraordinary fruits such as salak, a pear-shaped fruit that grows on a palm, tastes like pineapple and is covered by the most per¬fect imitation snakeskin;
The delicate djambu, fragrant wani, the rambutan (a large sort of grape inside of a hairy transparent pink skin) , the famous mangosteen (manggis) (for which a prize was offered by Queen Victoria to anyone who found the way to bring the fruit in good condition to England) , and the stinking durien (duren in Bali) .
A good deal has been written both in favour of and against this spiky sort of custard apple, whose putrid smell has been compared with every decaying or evil-smelling thing from goats to rancid butter. The meat of the durien is a creamy custard, the undefinable flavour and texture of which develops into a passion among those used to eating it.
Most Europeans, however, object to its offensive smell to such a degree that they forbid their servants to bring durien within a distance of their house. The fruits are eaten raw and the vegetables are boiled or fried after being washed carefully in a special bowl. The Balinese peel vegetables away and not towards themselves, as is done in the West.
Although the Balinese are not fond of sweets, they make a delicious dessert of coconut cream with cinnamon, bananas, or breadfruit steamed in packages of banana leaf.
We have seen that the Balinese women are reduced to the routine of cooking the everyday meal, but when it comes to preparing bali ban¬quet food, it is the men, as is universally the case, who are the great chefs and who alone can prepare the festival dishes of roast suckling pig (be guling) and sea-turtle (penyu) , the cooking of which requires the art of famous specialists.
Few bandjars en¬joyed as great a reputation for fine cooking as Belaluan; there the great banquet dishes were prepared most often because the handjar was prosperous and there lived famous cooks who were always in great demand to officiate at feasts.
Enjoy all these famous fruits on your own villa at Bali dolphin beach Villas
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North Bali Health Care for Women
North Bali Health Care for Women
The aim of this project is to set up a women's healthcare pilot project as an example for other rural communities, using the village of Pemuteran, North Bali, as an example. Specifically, the goals are to improve knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of the rural women who reside in Pemuteran and by default, their male partners with regard to their health, including reduction of risk for STDs and cancer, in addition to improving their reproductive health status and knowledge about their bodies.
This is being done through counseling by the village midwives, who are being trained by volunteer medical staff from two hospitals (Sanglah and Prima Medika) in Denpasar.
In addition, two village midwives have been trained to help detect breast and cervical cancer and all forms of STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases). These midwives have been provided with all the equipment necessary to take pap smears and blood samples from patients. These slides are then sent to Denpasar for laboratory testing. Aside from the testing, the women and their partners are educated about issues around women's cancer by teaching them how to look for signs of breast cancer themselves and to have regular check-ups and pap smears by the midwives.
It is critical that this type of training be done because by the time many breast and cervical cancer patients from rural areas are referred to doctors and hospitals for proper treatment, it is often too late, causing heavy financial burdens for their families.
To assess just how bad the situation had become, oncologist Dr. Tjakra Wibawa Manuaba and a team of doctors from Sanglah hospital, supported by the Yayasan Kanker Indonesia (YKI) and Johnson and Johnson, came to Pemuteran to take pap smears from 30 test patients (the staff of Puri Ganesha villas, as an example to the rest of the village) just after the bomb in November 2002. Of the 30 women tested, 19 were diagnosed with vaginal infections and provided with bethadine douches, 4 patients were treated for STDs and 1 patient was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
In August of 2004, Dr. Tjakra and a team of doctors and midwives from Prima Medika Hospital in Denpasar went to Pemuteran to begin the training of the midwives. Dr Agus from the Puskesmas (Community Health Clinic) in Gerogkak was also on hand in the newly renovated & equipped surgery belonging to Desa Pemuteran.
The two midwives were given new gynecological beds and all the equipment they need to run a women's village clinic. The doctors and midwives from Denpasar showed the two village midwives how to take pap smears from 17 test patients; the slides were brought back to Denpasar for analysis. The midwives receive Rp 10.000 for each patient tested.
It is hoped that evenutally between them, the two midwives will be able to test 100 patients each month, so that the assessment of women's health in Pemuteran can be done properly.
These women have no hygiene education and have no money to go to a doctor. They give birth at home and not one of them has ever had a gynecological examination. Breast cancer usually remains undetected until it is too late and then the families have no way of paying for expensive treatments.
The aim of this project is to educate village women to realize just how important sexual hygiene is and that they should come to the clinic immediately if anything seems to be wrong. This means that they can receive treatment before costs for the families become astronomically high and impossible to pay for.
A computer has been installed in the Puri Ganesha Hotel where an administrative staff person has been trained to set up a data base with the medical history of all the women in the village so that they can be examined and tested regularly. This will also assist in building a statistical data base which can be used to analyze the health situation of women in very rural areas. This is being done with the back-up of the local village authorities.
Eventually, if funding and human resources permit, ELISA testing for HIV/AIDS shall be done at the two midwives' clinics.
Since the clinics opened in August 2004, 123 women have been treated.
THE TEAM
The project manager is Diana von Cranach, a volunteer from YKIP. Her staff from Puri Ganesha were the original volunteers to be tested for cancer and STDs.
The team leader for the medical staff is Dr Tjakra Wibawa Manuaba, a member of YKIP's advisory board. Other doctors on the team are Dr Wayan Sudarsa, an oncologist from Sanglah hospital and Dr Anak Agung Wiraguna, specialist in skin and venereal diseases.
The aim of this project is to set up a women's healthcare pilot project as an example for other rural communities, using the village of Pemuteran, North Bali, as an example. Specifically, the goals are to improve knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of the rural women who reside in Pemuteran and by default, their male partners with regard to their health, including reduction of risk for STDs and cancer, in addition to improving their reproductive health status and knowledge about their bodies.
This is being done through counseling by the village midwives, who are being trained by volunteer medical staff from two hospitals (Sanglah and Prima Medika) in Denpasar.
In addition, two village midwives have been trained to help detect breast and cervical cancer and all forms of STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases). These midwives have been provided with all the equipment necessary to take pap smears and blood samples from patients. These slides are then sent to Denpasar for laboratory testing. Aside from the testing, the women and their partners are educated about issues around women's cancer by teaching them how to look for signs of breast cancer themselves and to have regular check-ups and pap smears by the midwives.
It is critical that this type of training be done because by the time many breast and cervical cancer patients from rural areas are referred to doctors and hospitals for proper treatment, it is often too late, causing heavy financial burdens for their families.
To assess just how bad the situation had become, oncologist Dr. Tjakra Wibawa Manuaba and a team of doctors from Sanglah hospital, supported by the Yayasan Kanker Indonesia (YKI) and Johnson and Johnson, came to Pemuteran to take pap smears from 30 test patients (the staff of Puri Ganesha villas, as an example to the rest of the village) just after the bomb in November 2002. Of the 30 women tested, 19 were diagnosed with vaginal infections and provided with bethadine douches, 4 patients were treated for STDs and 1 patient was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
In August of 2004, Dr. Tjakra and a team of doctors and midwives from Prima Medika Hospital in Denpasar went to Pemuteran to begin the training of the midwives. Dr Agus from the Puskesmas (Community Health Clinic) in Gerogkak was also on hand in the newly renovated & equipped surgery belonging to Desa Pemuteran.
The two midwives were given new gynecological beds and all the equipment they need to run a women's village clinic. The doctors and midwives from Denpasar showed the two village midwives how to take pap smears from 17 test patients; the slides were brought back to Denpasar for analysis. The midwives receive Rp 10.000 for each patient tested.
It is hoped that evenutally between them, the two midwives will be able to test 100 patients each month, so that the assessment of women's health in Pemuteran can be done properly.
These women have no hygiene education and have no money to go to a doctor. They give birth at home and not one of them has ever had a gynecological examination. Breast cancer usually remains undetected until it is too late and then the families have no way of paying for expensive treatments.
The aim of this project is to educate village women to realize just how important sexual hygiene is and that they should come to the clinic immediately if anything seems to be wrong. This means that they can receive treatment before costs for the families become astronomically high and impossible to pay for.
A computer has been installed in the Puri Ganesha Hotel where an administrative staff person has been trained to set up a data base with the medical history of all the women in the village so that they can be examined and tested regularly. This will also assist in building a statistical data base which can be used to analyze the health situation of women in very rural areas. This is being done with the back-up of the local village authorities.
Eventually, if funding and human resources permit, ELISA testing for HIV/AIDS shall be done at the two midwives' clinics.
Since the clinics opened in August 2004, 123 women have been treated.
THE TEAM
The project manager is Diana von Cranach, a volunteer from YKIP. Her staff from Puri Ganesha were the original volunteers to be tested for cancer and STDs.
The team leader for the medical staff is Dr Tjakra Wibawa Manuaba, a member of YKIP's advisory board. Other doctors on the team are Dr Wayan Sudarsa, an oncologist from Sanglah hospital and Dr Anak Agung Wiraguna, specialist in skin and venereal diseases.