Newmont Mining Corporation

Adapted from Beyondthemine.com

Malnourishment, an impact from poverty and poor health conditions, has been a pervasive health problem throughout Indonesia. We have worked for many years with village leaders to teach our employees, their families and expectant mothers the benefits of sound nutrition. Mine employees also rotate village visits each month to provide children with a three-month supply of food, which contains rice, sugar, green peas, biscuits, salt and powdered milk.

Since the program's inception, we delivered thousands of food packages to needy families. We monitor the nutrition program's effectiveness and evaluate the children's ongoing health needs. The number of malnourished children in Sekongkang and Jereweh has dropped from 10.11 percent to approximately 0.70 percent.