Background

Yayasan Kembang Hati - Bloosoming Flowers Foundation

 

Yayasan Kembang Hati Foundation, was founded in 1998 as a charitable foundation in Indonesia with headquarters located in Bali. Its first purpose was to help improve the health and social welfare of disadvantaged women, children, and families through programs designed to educate, provide health services, and implement sustainable incomes. However over the years, we have grown into a foundation that assists economically disadvantaged.

 

Doctor Roy Massie and Ms.Jeannine Caroll who saw a need for improving the lives of people who are living in the remote areas around Bali and the cluster islands of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) founded it.

 

A founding member of the Yayasan, Roy Massie, is a medical doctor who has been working in the remote villages of NTT since 1990. In 1995-96, Dr. Massie spent a years sabbatical in Boston at Boston Medical Center studying under a program specifically for medical treatments in developing nations. He deals with mother and child family health planning. Dr. Massie is now living in Jakarta.

 

Ms. Jeannine Marie Carroll who serves as Chairperson of the Yayasan, who for many years has been living and travelling into the remote parts of Nusa Tenggara Barat( NTB ) and NTT, especially Lombok Island, Sumbawa Island, Flores Island, Komodo Island, Sumba Island, and West Timor Island. Ms.Carroll lives in Bali where she operates spa company.