ABOUT US

The R.O.L.E. Foundation is a non-profit organization, incorporated in Australia, the USA and Indonesia. (Philippines, Japan and EEC….applications in process)

Although our mission is global, R.O.L.E. has targeted the well known and needy areas of Indonesia and Southern Philippines for its initial programs. This area has approximately 27,000 Islands and is home to 320 million people, half of whom live below or close to the poverty line.

R.O.L.E. has made its base at Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, where it runs its administration and programs. R.O.L.E. plans to open an office in Australia and the USA in 2008.

The administration and the Education Facility for the Women’s Vocational Skills Education Program operate from two leased buildings on Siligita Road, Nusa Dua.   

R.O.L.E. has a 25 year lease on a property at Sawangan, with views from Nusa Dua to Penida Island and across the Indian Ocean. The property is 15,500 square meters in area and is positioned on a hill just minutes away from Bali’s International Airport. This location is central to the mangroves and the harbour, the tourism industry of Nusa Dua (with its 5 star hotels and their marine sports such as, snorkelling, scuba and reef viewing boats) the seaweed farming, the local fishermen, and to local agriculture of the Bukit, southern Bali.

This property will eventually house all 4 programs.

R.O.L.E. plans to grow organically as funds become available. We are intending to build the structure and layout as inexpensively as possible, using stone and earth materials found on site with the labor supplied by existing management, staff and using mainly volunteers.

This eco-friendly jobs and business learning facility for the poor and disadvantaged, with its four programs, will be replicated in part or full and transplanted to other needy locations, such as Siargao Island, Philippines and West Sumbawa, Indonesia.

INTRODUCTION
R.O.L.E. believes that the health of the environment and the health of local communities are inextricably linked.
In most underdeveloped countries, because of the mismanagement and exploitation of natural resources (i.e.: over fishing; misuse of chemicals in farming; unchecked clearing of forest lands and river banks; erratic population and building growth; poor waste management) great stress has been placed on farm land, national parks, tropical coral reefs and local fisheries. All of which has put a once healthy environment into sharp decline.

Therefore the incomes derived by the local communities, in many cases, have all but dried up pushing families close to or into poverty.

It has a humiliating effect on these people; their traditional means of support for their families, along with their food source and nutrition are rapidly disappearing.

For the poor and disadvantaged people, it becomes a miserable life.
For the animals, forests, oceans and reefs, it is a disaster.

Role believes that with all the wealth, technology and intellect in the world today it is every person’s right to be able to attain a reasonable income and live in a comfortable manner. The world’s natural resources, with its rivers, oceans, lands and ecology are being decimated unnecessarily (Ecology means the interaction of mankind with all animal life, both marine and land based, with the forests, woodlands and plant life, and with the elements).

THE R.O.L.E FOUNDATION CHARTER

The quality of life for present and future generations is incontrovertibly linked to the health of the environment and the controlled management of natural resources.

• We wish to play a key role in the understanding and management of natural resources, the application of the principles of sustainable development, and the community’s respect for the environment through education, research and public service. 

R.O.L.E’s role or mission

To educate, re-skill and create alternate eco-friendly jobs and business opportunities, thus enabling the poor and disadvantaged to make a comfortable income, while reviving the health of the environment and taking the pressure off natural resources for future generations. 

R.O.L.E.’s Programs and Aims  

All programs are given free of charge to those assessed as poor or disadvantaged at present, or  to those who may be at risk of slipping into poverty or becoming disadvantaged in the future.

1. Women’s Vocational Skills Education:  To give a basic education and vocational skills for women from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds so they can break the poverty cycle. All of our graduates are ready for the work place and are an asset to any work place or team. Combined with office, communications and Basic English skills our graduates are trained in: Employer expectations; character building; work ethics; self esteem; and health, hygiene, manners and deportment.
2. Marine Revival and Ocean Farming:  To educate and re-skill fishermen and coastal communities in new and environmentally sustainable ocean farming, fishing and marine revival methods. To produce a reasonable income from these and to end the over exploitation of marine resources.
3. Eco-Learning Center:  To educate and re-skill farmers and local communities in new environmentally sustainable farming methods, renewable energy use, waste management and water use, to terminate the over exploitation of natural resources.
4. Job and Business Development:  To help find jobs and start up eco-friendly businesses for the poor and disadvantaged (so they can gain a comfortable income  and at the same time take pressure off and re-grow  natural resources). Helping to  find micro-financing if needed.