Manly-Manado - Sumompo - Lend a Helping Hand

Manly-Manado is lending a hand to the Sumompo community by providing micro-loans for small business, establishing free health clinics and providing education to those that need it. Micro-loans are a major power initiative pioneered by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus. We admire his work - microloans create the basic power to hand over life-sustaining power.

Help Our Manly Support Manly-Manado - Visit the site and get involved - Donate if you are time-poor/ cash-rich or create an event if you are time-rich/ cash-poor. This is our sister city. Poverty and Wealth have flipsides based on perspective - what kind of rubbish/ gem are you working on?

Sumompo is a small village located 10km north of Manado city. In the centre of the community is a rubbish dump, providing work for around 100 people who scavenge for paper and plastic. Families, who have moved to Sumompo in search of work from nearby provinces, live in makeshift houses near or on the dump.

Every day dozens of trucks, both Government and private, drop off all sorts of rubbish from the city. People of all ages and gender participate in the work, scavenging alongside dogs. In hot weather thongs are worn, in wet weather gumboots are used, if they can be afforded. The key tool is a ‘gonjol’, a half metre steel hooked rod to help sort and pick paper and plastic. Even though each individual is responsible for how much paper and plastic they collect, there is a strong sense of team-work, camaraderie and family on the dump.

Bridge Of Hope is Manly-Manado’s micro enterprise development partner. Bridge of Hope is working with the Sumompo community to provide micro loans for families who have existing businesses on and around the dump. Its community worker is also providing education for children living on the dump who currently don’t attend school. Bridge of Hope also runs courses for adults in basic health, life skills and parenting as well as providing free health clinics for those who live on the Sumompo dump.

Help Our Manly Support Manly-Manado - Visit the site and get involved - Donate if you are time poor/ cash rich or create an event if you are time rich/ cash poor!