Background:

"Yayasan Kembang Hati " or Blossoming Love Foundation, was founded in 1998 as a charitable foundation, in Indonesia with headquarters located in Bali. The purpose is 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 assist economically disadvantaged children and their families. We also run a Women's Crisis Home.

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

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 is an American who for many years has been living and traveling into the remote parts of Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) and Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), especially Lombok Island, Sumbawa Island, Flores Island, Komodo Island, Sumba Island and West Timor Island. Ms Carroll has lives in Bali Island where she operates a hotel.

Yayasan's Objectives:

The long-term objective is to reduce poverty by improving self-sustaining capabilities of women who are heads of households or children living in orphanage and families living below subsistence level, as well as improving the living conditions in orphanages.