CARE NOW PROJECT
A community, environment and garbage project
Everybody knows that waste is a very big problem all over Asia,so it is in Indonesia.Exerts talking about a real waste management crisis.And its getting more worse and worse with growing tourism,economics and cities.Indonesia has no waste managment systems,no garbage collections as we know that from western countries,no waste seperation and you can hardly find waste bins. The local peole just throw all their trash into the nature or rivers or they burn their garbage. One of the main reasons is that the local peole do not have the awareness to taking care of their environment,the awareness for a clean and green,a waste-free and plastic-free environment.
And this is the where our project work starts with the CARE NOW project.
We can not change everything in a quick time but what we mostly want is to encourage the local community here to taking more awareness of indonesias waste problem.
This project is very close to my heart and we started it with our fully conviction.I am a german emigrant and you maybe can imagine how difficult it is to see and understand all the rubbish everywhere and to see peole throwing rubbish in the rivers and burning their rubbish (even organic waste and toxic waste!) ,and to try to understand the local attitude. We as westerns do know about the impacts of this problem like air polution,global warming,climate change,health effects,all the plastic ends up in the oceans,etc.But the locals don`t!
They dont get any education and if some of them do, they find it difficult to change something as there is no support from the government like a good-working waste management.
What we dont want is disabuse the community as they wont follow our project ( indonesian people wont listen to a western if they dont behave polite and just tell them you are doing wrong,you should do that!).We are trying to organise small workshops and meetings to discus these topics in a comfortable way for both sides.
WHAT IS THIS PROJECT ABOUT?
It is about topics like conservation,protection of animals and nature,but the focus will be the education,training and support of local communities about waste,waste management,plastic recycling and waste reduction,waste seperation,waste burning and its impact to the environment ( global warming and climate changing,air polution) same like health effects,recycling,composting (locals even burn their organic waste),waste recovery and wate reduse.
We want a clean and green environment and a trash and plastic free nature ( plastic get thrown in the rivers where fishes or chickens can eat small plastic particles which ends up in human stomaches if they eat those animals,all the plastic trash ends up in our big ozeans where it harms the ecosystem of animals and plants).
Another imortant fact is how to handle toxic trash?For the moment all toxic trash like battieries,old medicines,etc, get threatens like normal trash and is just thrown away into nature and rivers which is a disaster.There are no disposal route here to get rid off it.
KEEP YOUR ENVIRONMENT CLEAN AND GREEN
SAY NO TO PLASTIC
STOP GARBAGE
REDUCE-REUSE-RECYCLE
These are our project slogans!
The project is part of our Ecotourism and its policies:
http://www.bukitlawang-jungletrekking.com/eco-tourism-program/
We finance this project with 5% of our profits.
Furtherway we have some amazing friends and partner from TheGrassvan.com who created the lovely project logo for us and who lately donated some money for the project work!
THANK YOU CARO,TOBI & MAX SO FAR FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT <3
For the future we hope to find guests which are willed to help and support our project.
If you would like to donate something,please contact us.
Any donations-no matter how small or large-can make a difference!Thank you!
Its also possible that you stay a few days and help out at CARE NOW project:)
Just send us an email if you are interested or if you have any further questions.
ECOFRIENDLY TOTE BAGS
One part of the CARE NOW project are these ecofriendly totebags. We are making them together with local people (material,tailor, printer) to hand them out to the community for free. Our hope is that locals will use them as a shopping alternative to the usual plastic bags and therefore the consequene will be a reduction of plastic trash. Until now we got great feedback from the community and they all were happy and keen about this campaign and it seems that they understood the aim of the CARE NOW project which makes us confident for further activities like that.
PICTURES SPEAK MORE THAN WORDS
Furthermore we were able to create and print out big and colourful photo collages from the lately donated money of our friends from TheGrassVan.They will help to explain the community about all the waste problem and its effects to the environment like described above in a more demonstrative way. There are also pictures about the effects of the global warming and climate changings which we talked about.and we explained through these collages the photosynthesis of trees,about oxygen and carbon,and told them about the fact that palm oil palms produce more carbon than oxygen and are therefore really not good for a balanced environment,we talked about recycling and waste seeration,about how long things need to rot,about composting,landfills full of waste and many other things like that.The photocollages really help the people to understand everything more easy.
The blog:
💚Ecobricks house ... it goes on💚
(June 2025 )
Thanks to the support of family, friends and guests, we are finally able to realize the next and final big construction steps for the ecobricks house project in the village. So exciting! Stay tuned for more updates!
If you still want to support us or learn more about this project, our fundraising campaign is still active and online here:
Reach out to us if you want to support our Care Now mission.
💚We are commited to an ecofriendly tourism and feel responsible for humans,animals&nature!💚
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💚 Ongoing Care Now project activities💚
( May 2025 )
Busy times; tourist season is slowly starting and there a still many different community projects going on behind the main scenes!
We delivered the next quarterly donation to the local school charity Bukit Lawang Trust, we handed out almost 400 of our free CARE NOW tote bags to the community, some young guests joined our litter picking initiative ( one free drink for one bucket of collected trash) and we started the next big building step for our ecobricks project in the village. So exciting! Stay tuned for more updates...
Reach out to us if you want to support our Care Now mission.
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💚🌿 Free tote bags against plastic pollution💚🌿
( March 2025 )
Besides our main daily work with the jungle trekking, we still arrange community activies in the background. In the last weeks we handed out our ecofriendly shopping tote bags to some local church communities whilst talking about environmental impacts of plastic pollution. Our Care Now bags are made locally; this way we support the community as well. We really hope that we can change the mind of at least some locals and our message is reaching as many people as possible. Thank you. We care now!
Reach out to us if you want to support our Care Now mission.
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💚 Our 4th quarterly donation 2024 for the Bukit Lawang Trust Community Center💚
( January 2025 )
It was time again for our quarterly donation for the Bukit Lawang Trust Education Center ( as part of our MOU ). We are happy to be able to provide this ongoing support for this charity and its important work for the local community. Head over to their homepage and learn more about the Bukit Lawang Trust:
They are always looking for new volunteers; we highly recommend to check our their amazing volunteering programme!
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💚Ecobricks fundraising campaign💚
( December 2024 )
On 8th of december, we have launched a new fundraising campaign to collect enough donation to realize the last big part of our village house rebuilding project which will also included a better roof for the family. Thank you so much in advance to each person for taking your time, reading this campaign and considering to donate what you are able to give. It will also be a huge help if you share this campaign on your social media channels to spread our message widely.:
Thank you very much for your support! 💚We are commited to an ecofriendly tourism and feel responsible for humans,animals&nature!💚
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💚 Our donation for the Bukit Lawang Trust Community Center💚
( November 2024 )
It was time again for our quarterly donation for the Bukit Lawang Trust Education Center ( as part of our MOU ). We are happy to be able to provide this ongoing support for this charity and its important work for the local community. Head over to their homepage and learn more about the Bukit Lawang Trust:
They are always looking for new volunteers; we highly recommend to check our their amazing volunteering programme!
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💚🌿 100 free totebags for local women💚🌿
( October 2024 )
Thanks to another donation from a loyal and generous BLJT friend, we were able to hand out 100 of our gratis ecofriendly CARE NOW tote bags again. This time it was our lovely local partner Apni who handed them out at her regularly women meetings, called " wirid " in indonesian language. This came along with conversations about how bad plastic bags are and what we can all do for a better future for our nature. We really hope that we can change the mind of at least some locals and our message is reaching as many people as possible. Thank you. We care now!
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♻️750kg recycled plastic trash♻️
( August 2024 )
In the last weeks we continued our Care Now project work and finished our forth ecobricks module made out of 1.500 ecobricks and 750kg recycled plastic trash. For those of you who do not know hwat ecobricks are, please click here . We love this way to take care of the trash and also think its looks pretty great!
As our CARE NOW project is self-financed, we appreciate every little help. Get in touch via info@bukitlawang-jungletrekking.com if you want to support our work. Thank you very much !
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💚 Our donation for the Bukit Lawang Trust Community Center💚
( July 2024 )
It was time again for our quarterly donation for the Bukit Lawang Trust Education Center ( as part of our MOU ). We are happy to be able to provide this ongoing support for this charity and its important work for the local community. Head over to their homepage and learn more about the Bukit Lawang Trust:
They are always looking for new volunteers; we highly recommend to check our their amazing volunteering programme!
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💚 Free coffee for litter pick up💚
( June 2024 )
We started a new waste awareness initiative at our restaurant:
all visitors are encouraged to collect a bucket of rubbish in exchange for a free coffee or tea. With this campaign we aim to combat rubbish around the National Park. Hopefully this will make a difference and reduce the damage rubbish has to our beautiful jungle village, the river as well as the ecosystem and wildlife of the sumatran rainforest!
As a local business, we feel that we have a responsibly to look after the area in which we operate and protect our environment! Ask for an amber at our reception if you want to help:) Every little bit helps !
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💚 Donation for the Bukit Lawang Trust school💚
( April 2024 )
It was time again for our quarterly donation for the Bukit Lawang Trust Education Center ( as part of our MOU ). We are happy to be able to provide this ongoing support for this charity and its imortant work for the local community. Head over to their homepage and learn more about the Bukit Lawang Trust:
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💚 Donation for the Bukit Lawang Trust school💚
( January 2024 )
It was time again for our quarterly donation for the Bukit Lawang Trust Education Center ( as part of our MOU ). We are happy to be able to provide this ongoing support for this charity and its imortant work for the local community. Head over to their homepage and learn more about the Bukit Lawang Trust:
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💚🌿 200 free totebags💚🌿
( November 2023 )
Thanks to another donation from a loyal and generous BLJT friend, we were able to hand out 200 of our gratis ecofriendly CARE NOW tote bags to the locals at the friday´s community market again. This came along with conversations about how bad plastic bags are and what we can all do for a better future for our nature. We really hope that we can change the mind of at least some locals and our message is reaching as many people as possible. We had also some helping hands from volunteers of the Bukit Lawang Trust community center, one of our partners. Thank you. We care now!
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💚 More donations for our community partners💚
( October 2023 )
Every three months we are fullfilling our part of the MOU with the Bukit Lawang Trust Edication Center and handing over a quarterly donation ( from the profits of our jungle tours ). Last month it was time again and we are happy to be able to provide this ongoing support for this charity and the imortant work for the local community. Head over to their homepage and learn more about the Bukit Lawang Trust: www.bukitlawangtrust.org .
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The 3rd big ecobricks module is done
( September 2023 )
Due to a very generous donation from our guests, we were finally able to continue our Care Now project work and did the next step of the rebuilding process of our local partners house with ecobricks. Together with our team and local partner we have been picking up rubbish constantly and created 3.800 ecobricks which means about 1.900 kg of recycled plastic trash !!! YAY!!!
What we did with 3.800 ecobricks this time: rebuild the long left sidewall, the backyard wall and also made the behind kitchen room much bigger. And we are so happy and satisfied with the amazing result. This special colourful style is so unique and looks amazing...what do you think?
Creating and using ecobricks brings many benefits for the environment. We just love them as a great recycling option for all the plastic trash and we are helping a little bit to keep the nature clean and free from plastic pollution.
Learn here more about ecobricks.
As our CARE NOW project is self-financed, we are only able to do what we do with your support.
If you would love to be part in our initiative, please email us to : info@bukitlawang-jungletrekking.com.
We are looking forward to hear from you and appreciate each possible donation as we would love to create more ecobrick modules! Thank you very much in advance.
A big THANK YOU goes out to all our great Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking guest and friends who have supported us allready.....without your help our CARE NOW work is not possible.
THANK YOU SO MUCH 
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💚Regular donation handover and Delivery of Pack for a purpose items💚
( August 2023 )
This month it was Janine´s ( female owner of BLJT ) turn to handover the quarterly profit donations for our local commmunity partner, The Bukit Lawang Trust Education Center. We were also happiliy receiving and delivering some donations/ school material through the great initiative of pack for a purpose. An awesome way to make impacts in local communities with small space and little efforts! Let´s all be change makers!
Restaurant waste management / recycling
( July 2023 )
As part of our ecotourism policy, we are trying to keep the impacts of tourism as low as possible.
One important thing we do for that is the recycling of all kind of possible waste in our guesthouse and restaurant..
We regularly call a local handyman who collects cans, plastic bottles, paper, glas, etc..
He later resells all to a bigger recycling company in the main city of Medan where the further process takes place.
We are committed to an ecofriendly tourism and feel responsible for humans, animals and nature!
🌿Teaming up with Aini from APES🌿🌿
( Aini´s pure ecosoaps)
( June 2023 )
Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking guests will be lucky to enjoy some amazing ecofriendly and handmade soaps during their stay with us. We are partnering up with Aini and are more than happy to support her own local business #handmadesoapsnorthsumatra and #apes
( Ainis pure eco soaps). In our Jungle Dreams we are providing her fabulous products allready and further a lovely little surprise is also waiting for all our visitors. Aini runs a local homestay and beautiful organic garden from where she uses all the natural ingredients for her products; not harming the environment or us!
Nothing else we wish to provide to our customers💚
🌿 New bags for a good cause in the making🌿
( May 2023 )
Due to a generous donation of a friend of us, we were able to order more CARE NOW tote bags again.
Our local seamstress woman is sewing them in these days and was very happy about this order and opportunity to get some income.
Stay tuned to see what will happen with the bags...:)
💚 More donations for our community partners💚
( April 2023 )
This week it was time again to handover our quarterly donations to our amazing local partner, the Bukit Lawang Trust Education Center. We are very glad to be able to constantly supporting their amazing work again now since tourism is back! (englisch lessons, women empowernment initiatives, conservation, community developement projects, sustainability, waste management, early childhood education, ecofarming, and so much more what they provide for free to the communities around ).
Feel free to visit their homepage :
Let´s change the world by helping each other!
Something big is coming up...
( March 2023 )
Due to some generous donations, we will soon be able to continue with the next part of our ecobricks house project. The last week we had some meetings and made plans for the organisation and procedure. In the next weeks we will collect and create more ecobricks as we will need around 3.000 for the next step. Stay tuned....!
💚Meet Marie&Leo from Ferkel&Pfeffer💚
( February 2023 )
This month we could finally welcome Marie and Leo from Germany in Bukit Lawang. Both run an online shop vor vegan, handmade and natural cosmetics. Since December 2020 they support our Care Now project with parts of their quarterly profits from their company called Ferkel&Pfeffer. And now we could show them our ecobricks ( plastic recycling ) project into which their donations are going. We all share the same attitude and feel responsible for our planet, humans, animals and nature! Their products for example are made and sold in an ecofriendly and sustainable way which suits our ethical commitments. So we are happy to work with them and have them on board as partners. Thank you very very much for your support, Marie&Leo.
💚 More donations for our community partners💚
( January 2023 )
Our best-smiling guide Pandi handed over the donations we have been collecting from the last four month of our profits to the school management team of the Bukit Lawang Trust Education Center.
We will always be happy to support the amazing work of the Trust ( englisch lessons, women empowernment initiatives, conservation, community developement projects, sustainability, waste management, early childhood education, ecofarming, and so much more ).
Feel free to visit their homepage :
Let´s change the world by helping each other!
💚🌿 End-of-the-year rubbish clean up💚🌿
( December 2022 )
Our plan to do another rubbish picking up activity in 2022 became reality in the last month of the year. Our team is always motivtated to clean up different parts of their village and be an example for others. Plus it is always fun for them as well to come all together:) It is important that we all do our bit to help defeat trash pollution and its terrible impacts for our planet. Every piece of trash that is taken away means there is one less dangerous item for animals. CLEAN AND GREEN IS OUR PERFECT DREAM💚
💚 Time for more donations💚
( October 2022 )
In the last two months we were able to hand over the 2nd and 3rd part of our promised donation of the Year 2022 to our longterm local partner and friends, The Bukit Lawang Trust Education and Community Centre. It is part of an MOU with this amazing organisation which is committed to the same ethical goals like us. So we think it is our responsibility to support their outstanding community work here in our village. Its a grassroots Conservation & Education charity dedicated to facilitating environmental conservation and sustainable Human Development. You should check out their homepage here.
💚 Donation handover from TheGreenstamp 💚
( August 2022 )
Last month we happily handed over donations to our local Care Now project partner; we kindly received those donations from the community of TheGreenstamp. Thank you very much!
TheGreenstamp ( https://thegreenstamp.com/ ) is partnering with us since december 2020. Through their website, they are reaching out to travellers worldwide and assissting them in implementing an all-aound ecofriendly travel lifestyle. Travellers also can support several wildlife and ecofriendly projects all over the world and our organisation is listed as well.
We use this support to pay our local partner a monthly sallery; she works for our CareNow project, collecting plastic rubbish and creating ecobricks from which we also help to build new houses or proper bathroom like the one on this picture behind
( 1.360 ecobricks were used which means 680kg recycled trash!). Impressing and looking beautiful! Do you agree?:)
Feel free to drop us a message if you are interested to hear more about our work or if you wish to help:
info@bukitlawang-jungletrekking.com.
Looking forward to chat with you and inspire each other.
ONLY TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE IN THIS WORLD🌍
💚🌿 RIVER CLEAN UP💚🌿
( June 2022 )
Whenever possible, we try organise some team activities to clean up different places in the village. This month the team decided for a river location. It did not took long to collect a huge amount of rubbish out of the river again. Its sad to see our small rivers and beautiful village sceneries polluted with quite old and dirty trash; not to mention the negative impacts this situation has for the ecosystems
( microplastics!). A lot of small initiatives doing regular clean ups around our community allready and we are happy about this responsible actions and that more and more people take care of this wonderful place!
💚🌿CLEAN AND GREEN IS OUR PERFECT DREAM
💚 Our donation for Bukit Lawang Trust Community Centre💚
( May 2022 )
Tourism is slowly starting again so we were able to happily handover the first donation part of 2022 to our longterm local partner and friends, The Bukit Lawang Trust Education and Community Centre. It is part of an MOU with this amazing organisation which is committed to the same ethical goals like us. So we think it is our responsibility to support their outstanding community work here in our village. Its a grassroots Conservation & Education charity dedicated to facilitating environmental conservation and sustainable Human Development. You should check out their homepage here.
🍀💚 100 x Food & Hope 💚 🍀
( March 2022 )
We are so very thankful about another generous donation from a lovely family. This family hasn´t even visited Bukit Lawang and us yet and made a huge donation for the second time now! We are grateful every time we are receiving support for our village community and organised the delivery of 100 food parcels this time. Words can´t express how happy and thankful the families are about this needed help! And its an honour for our team to spread food and hope amongst their own community thanks to the huge solidarity we have received during the last two years of pandemic from many amazing humans out there ! So THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH to all of you 💚 Even though we are optimistic that the corona crisis will end soon and Indonesia will welcome foreign travellers again in the next month, we will continue our fundraising campaign to still provide extra help until the economic suítuation is solid and stable again.
If you also wish to help, please check out our fundraising campaign :
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bukit-lawangs-community-through-corona-crisis
Or send us an email to : info@bukitlawang-jungletrekking.com .
Each donation is highly needed and appreciated! 
THANK YOU
🍀#foodandhope for 14 families 🍀
( January 2022 )
Thanks to some generous donation of some amazing friends of marestella.me , we handed out food packages to 14 local families. People are still in such high need as the pandemic goes on and on and people hardly earn anything as the international tourism is still closed...since almost 2 years now!:(
THANK YOU SO MUCH again and again to everyone who has donated and supported our community in the last 2 years! It means so much to us and our team and all the families in our village !
If you also wish to help, please check out our fundraising campaign :
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bukit-lawangs-community-through-corona-crisis
Or send us an email to : info@bukitlawang-jungletrekking.com .
Each donation is highly needed and appreciated THANK YOU
StudentsConservationTrek
( November 2021 )
As the pandemic is going on, our guides miss their work and we are always thinking about new activities for our CARE NOW project, we decided to create the opportunity for some local students to do one of our amazing rainforest treks. So we invited some students of our local neighbourhood to join our guides Jimi and Erdi for a one day trek into the Gunung Leuser National Park. We wanted them so explore the beauty of the rainforest live and to discover all the amazing flora and fauna. Hard to believe but many locals have never been inside the National Park allthough they live so close by and its kind of their home forest! The group was lucky and spotted some great wildllife such as the famous sumatran orangutans....what a highlight for them and a good way to connect them with mother nature, to create awareness for their environment and the Leuser Ecosystem and most important to talk about conservational topics which was the main aim for us to arrange this day for the kids.
We can say this trip was a success and we are allready planning the next one to give other students the chance too:)
⚠️1.500 food-aid-parcels for local families of Bukit Lawang⚠️( July 2021)
In march 2021, together with a few other organisations, we teamed up and joined a great fundraiser, created by the Bukit Lawang Trust Education Center ( with whom we are partnering since many years). The idea was to raise enough money to provide all local families in Bukit Lawang with a food-aid-parcel as this community has suffered a lot from the rapid loss of income since the outbreak of the pandemic:(
And we all did it !!!
Everyone involved worked so hard so we finally were able to deliver those parcels on the 10th of july to all 1.500 local families.!!!
The campaign was an important success and a great support for our local community:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/north-sumatra-covid19-appeal?utm_term=B2q5G5mAa
We want to shout out a huge and hearty THANK YOU VERY MUCH to every single human out there who has donated to this campaign and so helped us all to make this possible ❤️
Without you all we could not make this happen! We are all overwhelmed that we achieved the campaigns goal and the solidarity of you all!
💚🌿 RIVER CLEAN UP💚🌿
( May 2021 )
A few days after the most important muslim Idul Fitri Holidays , we called our team together for another green mission.
Unfortunately the big Idul Fitri celebrations are leaving behind a lot of rubbish every year, so we decided to get active again and do a community river clean up.
Its sad to see our small rivers polluted and our beautiful village sceneries full with plastic trash; not to mention the neagtive damages it brings ( microplastic!).
We wish to inspire others to spring into action as well and keep the nature clean and free from plastic!
-CLEAN AND GREEN IS OUR PERFECT DREAM-
The second big ecobricks module;
a bathroom for our local partner, made out of 680kg trash / 1.360 ecobricks
( April 2021 )
The corona pandemic hasnt hold us back to continuing our CARE NOW project work.
Together with our team and local partner we have been picking up rubbish constantly and created 1.360 ecobricks from about 680kg trash!!!YAY!!!
With those ecobricks, we have been able to build a proper bathroom for the family of our local partner ( they used the river before for their daily bathroom activities, same like many other locals still do).
So creating ecobricks brings many benefits for the environment. We just love them as a great recycling option for all the plastic trash and we are helping a little bit to keep the nature clean and free from plastic pollution. Plus the walls just look great with all the colours:). What do you think?
Learn here more about ecobricks.
As our CARE NOW project is self-financed, we are only able to do what we do with your support.
If you would love to be part in our initiative, please email us to : info@bukitlawang-jungletrekking.com.
We are looking forward to hear from you and appreciate each possible donation as we would love to create more ecobrick modules! Thank you very much in advance.
Lastly we need to shout out a big THANK YOU to all our great Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking guest and friends who have supported us allready.....without your
help our CARE NOW work is not possible. THANK YOU SO MUCH
🍀Covid-19-Crowdfunding-Collaboration 🍀
( March 2021 )
We have teamed up with 30 more charities, businesses, activists and individuals to achieve something big for our community that has never been done before. Weʼre raising £15,000 to provide aid parcels to 1,500 families from 6 rural communities on the border of the endangered Leuser Ecosystem in North Sumatra, Indonesia. After the Corona virus outbreak, our community experienced a rapid loss of income due to strict travel restrictions and we couldnt welcome international tourists anymore. The community faces now unemployment, hunger, increased crime and reduced quality of life. With your generous support we will be providing Aid parcels to around 1,500 families in rural North Sumatra during these unprecedented times, to alleviate the strain the pandemic has put on these communities. But more than that, we will be supporting the local economy and many of its small scale micro enterprises by purchasing every item for our aid packages from local businesses, providing a much needed source of revenue for many local business owners and their families.
To donate, please follow this link to our Just Giving page:
(https://www.justgiving.com/.../north-sumatra-covid19...)
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
....every donation will mean a lot ....
🍀#foodandhope for 65 families 🍀
( February 2021 )
This month we were able to deliver more food parcels to 65 families in our community. Its amazing that we still are receiving support from people all over the world and we hope we can continue our campaign as the lockdown has been extended once again and people had no income since 10 month now !
THANK YOU SO MUCH again and again to everyone who has donated ! We have given out our food packages to 365 families until now . ⚠️If you can, please help us and donate here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bukit-lawangs-community-through-corona-crisis
Each donation is highly needed and appreciated THANK YOU
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💚VChild Sponsoring❤💙
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Even though our CARE NOW project was originally established to focus on waste management and raising awareness for this topic, the corona pandemic showed us once more how important it is to take care of each other. So as a responsible tour operator, we felt to do something more to support the local community. The result is a brandnew partnership with the great team of the HARAPAN project. Harapan project is supporting families and kids with physical and mental disabilities on sumatra. Mostly those families and kids belong to the poorest and are often left behind. Harapan project is providing special needs aids, accessible transportation, special training and education and increasing awareness about life with disability in society in order to decrease discrimination. Please check out their homepage and learn more about their meaningful and outstanding work: www.projectharapan.com
We have decided to join their newest programme and do sponsor a local child from now on with a monthly donation....Say Hi to lovely Subari with the most beautiful smile ever!:) We are looking forward to our sponsorship with him , cant wait to build a great relationship with him and hope to meet him and his family in person one day !
The team of Harapan project is always looking for more supporters. So maybe YOU will become a child sponsor too and change someone`s life and probably you own life as well :)
#makeadifference
#thinkgloballyactlocally
💚New green partnership💚
( December 2020 )
Since December 2020 Marie&Leo from Germany will support our Care Now project with parts of their quarterly profits. Marie&Leo are the founder of Ferkel&Pfeffer , an online shop for vegan, handmade and natural cosmetics.
We all share the same attitude and feel responsible for our planet, humans, animals and nature! Their products are made and sold in an ecofriendly and sustainable way.
Check them out here:https://ferkelundpfeffer.com/
💚New green partnership💚
( December 2020 )
We are thrilled to anounce that TheGreenStamp labelled our organisation amongst their wildlife projects!
Travellers all over the world can support ecological initiatives through their website.
The Green Stamp reaches travelers worldwide and assists those travelers in implementing an all-round eco-friendly travel lifestyle. Check it out here:
💚🌿 Clean up during ongoing lockdown💚🌿
(November 2020 )
Live almost stands totally still in our little village Bukit Lawang due to the ongoing corona lockdown and still no tourists visiting, but our team keeps doing their green activities whenver they can like on this picture during their latest rubbish pick up around the river in november 2020.
-Clean and Green is our perfect dream-
🍀Smiling faces at our latest food delivery🍀
( September 2020 )
Travel restrictions have been extended until at least end of 2020 which means 7 months with no income for the locals then!
Bukit Lawangs community is still in need and our fundraising campaign still open!
We are glad to be able to provide free food parcels to 80 families again in september 2020.
In total we were able to help more than 300 local families allready, 75% of the campaigns goal go reached! This is amazing!
Please help us make it to 100% by sharing and donating.
We cant do what we do without all your generous support 💖
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bukit-lawangs-community-through-corona-crisis
LANDAK RIVER CLEAN-UP
( August 2020 )
In july, we were happy to join with a local church community for a clean-up activity around landak river area.
This area is more and more becoming a famous spot for local tourists.
As we are always continuing our green initiatives, we decided for a clean-up at that area this time to take care of the impacts this new developement has!🍀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
A great aspect is that communitya are coming together now to show responsibility and keep their nature clean! We are happy to support this with our men power of team BLJT💚
The corona pandemie is still present and the community has to live with the current restrictions ( closure of the national park and no income from tourism However our team is constantly active with green activites so we were happy to join with a local church community last month for a clean-up initiative around the area
⚠️URGENT HELP-BUKIT LAWANG COMMUNITY /COVID-19 OUTBREAK⚠️
( June/July 2020)
UPDATE : A third big food delivery was handed out to 80 local families!
Please check out our campign directly to read more about our latest initiative.
Thank you very very much in the name of the community! Your kindly help will be highly appreciated and needed!
⚠️URGENT HELP-BUKIT LAWANG COMMUNITY /COVID-19 OUTBREAK⚠️
( April/May 2020 )
Due to the corona virus outbreak and the physical distance restrictions, we canot continue with our green activties right now. However as we still care about Bukit Lawang´s community, we have created a fundrasining campaign to support local families with food parcels because so many people have lost their jobs. Please check out our campaign and think about if you can help too. Every donation is so much needed and greatly appreciated:
Thank you very very much in the name of the community!
💚🌿 300 free totebags💚🌿
( March 2020 )
This month our team together with the help of our lovely german blogger family went to the big local market in Bahorok to hand out 300 of our eco-friendly Care Now totebags for free to the community. It was a good day and people are happy to receive our bags and we hope our CARE NOW message reaches as many locals as possible!
WE CARE NOW !
💚🌿 Big Clean Up Day💚🌿
(February 2020 )
On 1st of february 2020 our team joined a huge Clean Up campaign in Bukit Lawang, organised by Bukit Lawang Trust and Project Wings. More than 200 people came together for a big rubbish pick up. We feel happy to be part of such a great teamwork!
And if many people work together, we can all reach more towards a better future!
💚🌿 Bags for a good cause💚🌿
( January 2020 )
Late Post: In december 2020, we were on the road again with our CARE NOW tote bags, raising awareness towards plastic pollution amongst young students as we believe we must empower the youngest generations to fight for our planet!
Everyone should stand up and CARE NOW!
.Keep the jungle clean
( December 2019 )
As often as possible our team is doing rubbish pick ups and Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking guests are always welcome to join. The last one took place in november 2019.
Its sad to see that there is still visitors leaving rubbish behind during their treks in this beautiful nature..However you can allready find a few ethical tour operators in Bukit Lawang taking care of this issue and following one of many important guidelines such as not to leave anything behind in the wild than your footprints.
Remember this guideline next time you walk into the rainforest or any other nature place, please!
❤💙💚VVolunteering❤💙
(Ap(💚((November 2019)
We always need support with our project work and most important financial help....but what a great way to help by spending your time with the community like our recent guest Caroline from Germany did. Besides the famous orangutan trekking, she also helped out at a local school project and did some activities with local kids based on our Care Now mission.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO CAROLINE FOR YOUR TIME, IDEAS AND THE FABULOUS FUNDRAISING YOU DID AS WELL You definely made an impact with your stay here
to the community!
🌱 Trees for the National Park🌱
(October 2019)
Together with Orangutan Alliance, Bukit Lawang Trust and Partners 4 Protection we planted 40 fruit trees in the bufferzone for the wildlife,especially orangutans .
We hope to reduce the conflict between humans and orangutans in the future because sometimes orangutans come out of the jungle to close by farms and eat the farmers harvest which sometimes leads to shooting on orangutans! Long live these trees and the precious orangutans!🌿🐒
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(September 2019)
🌿 On CARE NOW mission again 🌿
( August 2019 )
5 of our CARE NOW team members went for a 2 hours motorbike ride to visit a local school and spread the mission and vision of our project , hand out 120 of our famous bags and donated school supplies to the more than 120 students. We think its important that we spread our message to as many people as possible,even far away, and are thankful that our members took the long journey to that school. Quite an exhausting trip but worth it after they told us how their day was and how happy the entire school team was. Again we hope to raise awareness amongst the young generations for a better environmental education and understanding.
If you are interested to support us as well, please send us a message to :
info@bukitlawang-jungletrekking.com.
Thank you:)
💚🌿🐵 Conservation Festival 2019💚🌿🐵
( August 2019)
For the 4th time, Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking joined the Bukit Lawang Conservation Festival...this year we even became one of the sponsors for the event!
You can read here more about it:
The festival aim is to protect the Gunung Leuser ecosystem, one of the last orangutans sanctuary in Earth as well as many other species. A gathering for the indonesian community to find ecological and economocal alternatives on a long term and present NGOs that work in North Sumatra for the protection of the wildlife and rainforest. We feel very proud and honoured to be part of this great event and collaboration!
Our first big Ecobrick module
( July 2019 )
During the last months, we have been busy collecting, washing and drying out plastic rubbish to create and collect ecobricks .
With almost 900 ecobricks we have now started re-building our local partners house and are proud to present the first part now....it looks awesome....in real even more....we are all very happy !
We used almost 900 ecobricks and therefore recycled almost 450 kg of trash!
An Ecobrick is a reusable building block created by packing clean and dry used plastic trash into a plastic bottle to a set density.
Ecobricks are a great way to take personal responsibility for our plastic trash and a fantastic solution to live again in harmony with our ecosystem!
We love this idea and are totally convinced about ecobricks.
We definetly plan to build more green spaces in the community and remove plastic trash from the biosphere.
Further they also create new income for the locals as we buy parts of the amount of ecobricks we use form the locals for 5.000rp each....which is a fully meal for the locals....and it encourages them to take care of their environemnt and keeps the nature clean.
As our CARE NOW project is self-financed, we are only able to do what we do with the support of donations.If you would love to be part of our initiative, please email us to : info@bukitlawang-jungletrekking.com. We are looking forward to hear from you!
Lastly we need to shout out a big THANK YOU to all our great Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking guest and friends who supported us allready.....without your help, CARE NOW is not possible.<3
New Bamboo straw edition for a good cause💚
(June 2019)
Since June 2019, Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking guests can enjoy their drinks with a new edition of our great bamboo straws since they are now laser graved with our business logo and homepage:)
They are ecofriendly ,handmade, reusable, biodegradable, natural, stylish and a great gift to bring back home.
We say no to single-used plastic straws.
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💚🌿 Pekan Sunge Landak💚🌿
( June 2019 )
On 9th of june 2019, we took part at a brand-new event called Pekan Sunge Landak at Landak RIver area, created by our familys guesthouse Bukit Lawang Indah and his manager Kornel. Its a traditional local market in the middle of a beautiful nature where yummy traditional food and drinks and local organic products are available. The event is also plastic-free!
So we jumped into the chance to present the mission and vision of our CARE NOW project ( basically to raise awareness of the dramatic plastic trash problem worldwide and its impacts to the environment!).
We can not imagine a better place to talk about the plastic trash issues and it was a great day ! Hopefully you can join us next time as this event is planned to run regularly:)))
💚👍♻ Delivery of 500 more ecobricks💚👍♻
(May 2019)
Slowly but sure,we are reaching our goal and can start our next bigger project from ecobricks soon!
An ecobrick is a reusable building block/brick created by packing clean and dry plastic trash into a plastic bottle to a set density. Ecobricks enable us to take personal responsibility for our plastic trash and our planet! 🌍 11
🌹🌿 Rubbish pick up and library session 🌹🌿
( May 2019 )
On sundays we are joining a regularly rubbish pick up with kids from our neighbour hood. To motivate them to keep up their action work and to reward them for helping keep their environment clean, we decided to create a community library for them as they are very keen to read books and really enjoying story time.This is also only possible due to some generous donations from friends,families and guests.
Thank you very much to all the ones who have supported us allready !
Having access to books will also help them to develop literacy skills. It's also good for children to understand that books are a useful source of information and that good reading skills are important for success in their future lives. We are very happy to support this and help with building up the library and raise more awareness towards the environment. We could always need help and support with this too. So if you enjoy spending time with locals and wish to help, please send us an email. We are looking forward to hear from you :) Its lovely to sit outside under the tress and reading them books.....
🌹🌿Spreading the CARE NOW message 🌹🌿
( April 2019 )
Our members made a second school visit this month.This time to the primary school in Bohorok Village.
We donated books, school supplies ,handed out our CARE NOW ecofriendly totebags and talked about the huge plastic problem our planet is suffering now and explained the students what everyone can do to help solving it!
We very much hope that we can step by step raise awareness by visiting schools and trying to change the younger generations minds.
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( April 2019 )
In the beginning of april 2019, our staff member Iwan went to a kindergarden in remote area to hand over learning supplies, some sport equipment and our CARE NOW ecofriendly tote bags.
Everyone was very happy so are we if we can help❤
We are always looking for guest and friends who are happy to support us....please contact us .
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💚 Keep Bukit Lawang clean💚((March 2019)
We are trying to do regular rubbish pick ups with our team.This month we past a local school and it was lovely to see that it didnt took long to ask the students to help. Its important to be an example for the youngest as they are the future generations wo will need a healthy ,strong, clean and green planet to live on !!!
Its so urgent to educate them and raise awareness for the plastic pollution worldwide. We are happy to help a bit with that and hope many others will do as well .
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( February 2019 )
Our local partner is busy collecting rubbish in her daily life and making a lot of ecobricks out of it....stay tuned and see what we plan do make out of them:)....but first we need around 1000 ecobricks!
An Ecobrick is a reusable building block created by packing clean and dry used plastic trash into a plastic bottle to a set density. Ecobricks enable us to take personal responsibility for our plastic trash.
💚👍♻Eco-Activities continuing in 2019...💚👍♻
(January 2019)
For our last green activity in 2018, we went again to the local market in Bukit Lawang to spread our CARE NOW tote bags. More than 300 pieces were given out again along with conversations about how bad plastic bags are and what we can all do for a better future for our nature. We really hope that we can change the mind of at least some locals:)
🎅🎄Eco-ChristmasTree 🎅🎄
( December 2018 )
For this years Christmas we had the great idea to build the Christmas tree in our familys guesthouse Bukit Lawang Indah out of the ecobricks we are producing.
What a fantatsic idea to reccyle plastic trash!
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE
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💚🌿🐵Bukit Lawang Conservation Festival 2018💚🌿🐵
(November 2018 )
On 3rd of november 2018 we joined the 3rd Bukit Lawang Trust Conservation Festival and presented our Care Now project.
The festival aims to protect the Gunung Leuser ecosystem, one of the last orangutans sanctuary in Earth as well as many other species. A gathering for the indonesian community to find ecological and economocal alternatives on a long term and present NGOs that work in North Sumatra for the protection of the wildlife and rainforest. We feel very proud and honoured to be part of this great movement! It was a great and very interesting day :)
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👍Recycled Rubbish Bins💚♻💚👍
(Oktober 2019)
A good way to use our recycled Ecobricks are rubbish bins. So we are now providing ecofriendly and selfmade rubbish bins at our familys guesthouse Bukit Lawang Indah....100% made out of the guesthouse´s trash.
They are easy to make so everybody can do it!
Ecofriendly
Waterbottles
(September 2018)
Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking started to provide reusable waterbottles for our jungle tours. Plastic bottles need around 450 years to decompose so lets all act responsible and say no to single used plastic-bottles.
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🍲plastic free lunch in the jungle💚👍 ♻🍲🌍
(August 2018)
Since August 2018 , Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking guests exclusively can enjoy their meals in the jungle without single-used plastic packagings.We now provide either tupperware containers or metal crockery. Another important step towards zero-waste tourism! And ecofriendly meals taste definetly better:)
💚👍♻MaMaMaking more
Ecobricks💚♻💚👍(June 2018)
♻MWith the great support of our Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking guests, we also continued making more ecobricks. For this we used parts of the collected trash from our rubbish pick up campaign End of Ramadan / Mid June 2018 ( see above).
Let us know before your arrival if you wish to help too.Thank you very much for everyone who supported our CARE NOW project allready!
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Clean-up-End of Ramadan
(June 2018)
Mid of june 2018 the locals celebrated end of Fasting/Ramadan; the most important public holidays.Usually many locals then come to Bukit Lawang to swim and picnic close to the river...which they well deserved after one moth of fasting!Unfortunately a lot of rubbish comes along with it ;(!!! Our little CARE NOW team therefore took action and did another rubbish pick up campaign. We try to recycle as much as we can.(JUn
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🌱👍TEAM-ACTION💚🌏🍀🌱
( June 2018 )
The whole Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking team cares for a clean and trash-free nature. Therefore we are doing regularly rubbish pick up activities. Everybody is welcome to join us ( guests, locals,other guides ). Together for a cleaner Bukit Lawang!!!
💚👍♻Spreading our free totebags💚👍♻
(May 2018)
Our team has been to the local market again to spread our lovely CARE NOW totebags. We hope that the locals will use them instead of plastic bags. It was exhausting and great fun too...we
handed out over 300 bags and talked to more than 300 locals about how bad all the plastic trash is and what WE ALL can do for a better future. Also we had huge support from 3 of our guests
this time. At then end we did also a little rubbish pick upIf you want to help us in someway, please
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Bamboo straws for a good
cause💚
(April 2018)
Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking guests can now buy their own ecofriendly bamboo straws. They are locally handmade, reusable, biodegradable, natural,stylish and fun and a great gift to bring back
home🍹🌴🍍💚plus they come in a beautiful little batik-bag. which is also locally handmade😍..
Ecobricks...plastic problem solved!!!???
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(from january 2018)
After searching a while we found a great way to
recycle plastic
trash...Ecobricks!!! We think this can be a fantastic solution to solve plastic pollution. And the best fact...everybody can do it as its very simple and for free. You just need to pick up
rubbish and bottles and squeeze all the trash into the bottle...thats it. We employ someone now who is resposible only for making those ecobricks. Almost the whole rubbish from our familys
guesthosue Bukit Lawang Indah gets recycled now! We first try to make easy modules like chairs and our big goal is to build a house out of ecobricks. We also make chairs for our jungle
camps...made out of trash from previous treks...isnt that amazing...we try to leave nothing behind. Some local people allready saw our first ecobricks and really like this idea so they
started making them too which makes us very happy. We found this idea in internet and we hope that a lot of people can see what we do and follow....its easy, for free, its fun as you can
create your own modules and it will lead to a cleaner Bukit Lawang.💚
Enough reasons to stand up and get active for in our
eyes.
💚🌏🍀🌱👍Recycled purses💚🌏🍀🌱👍
(April 2018)
Together with a local friend Apni we have made purses...100% handmade and 100% from plastic trash. We sell them now at our familys guesthouse and all profits go fully back to Apni and her family. We love to give something back to the community and also its one of our aims to work together as much as possible. So a combination of both...working together with a local woman and point out ways to reduce, reuse or in this case recycle plastic trash, is a perfect litlle start for waste management.
❤💙💚New Refill-Waterbottles❤💙
(Ap(💚((March 2018)
To reduce plastic trash from single used water bottles, we now offer new and very stylish water refill-bottles in many different colours in our familys guesthouse Bukit Lawang Indah❤.
Keep the
jungle clean
(January until December)
Bukit Lawang-Jungle Trekking guests&guides are always
bringing back all their rubbish from the jungle.Its
one of our aims to leave nature green&clean and we are trying to build up a sustainable ecotourism as we feel very responsible for what we do and how we do it.We are not the only one and we hope other will follow 
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Decomposing signs for the school and us
(February 2018)
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Our team has self-made! two new big educational boards...one for our familys guesthouse Bukit Lawang Indah and one for the Bukit Lawang Trust Education Centre school which we support.The boards show how long it takes for the different kind of materials to decompose.We hope to raise a bit more awairness for the huge plastic problem here with these signs as its quite shocking to see for example how long it takes for plastic to decompose.🌎
Think
global,act global!
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(February 2018)
To reduce our own environmental footprints, we have created a rubbish
recycling area in our familys guesthouse Bukit Lawang Indah.
💚No straws for a good cause💚
(January 2018)
Since january 2018, we are no longer serving single-used plastic straws anymore in our familys guesthouse BUKIT LAWANG INDAH. Instead we are having re-useable and stylish (stainless) steel straws now.
The drinks are tasting so much better now if you know you also help keeping the environment clean of plastic trash this way:)
CARE NOW team visits a local food market
(October 2017)
On 20th of october 2017, for the first time, we went to a local market to spread the CARE NOW ecofriendly totebags there...for free,of course. It was interesting and fun because we just had positive feedbacks from the locals who were open minded to listen to what we had to tell them about global plastic pollution.We saved about 70 plastic bags in only 2 hours!!!You can imagine how many plastic bags are still used in a day,momth or year in only one small village...its shocking! .We really hope that the community will use the cloth bags next time they go shopping at the market. You can easily help...just bring cloth bags next time you visit Bukit Lawang:) In the meanwhile we keep visiting local markets and spread our bags.
Spreading the CARE NOW message in local kindergardens
(September 2017 )
We are trying to educate the youngest generations about the huge plastic and rubbish problem and hope to encourage them not to throw rubbish away anymore. On 27th of september 2017 we have visited the local kindergarden NUSAH INDAH LANGKAT and brought them our ecofriendly tote bags and talked about the impacts of rubbish in the nature.
NEW STYLES
(March 2017)
With the support of our friend Marion from
http://marestella.me/ , we have designed 3 new styles for ecofriendly totebags which are now ready for sale in our familys guesthouse Bukit Lawang Indah.The proceeds go 100% towards this project.
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#SAY NO TO PLASTIC#STOP GARBAGE#REDUCE#REUSE#RECYCLE#
#KEE YOUR ENVIRONMENT CLEAN AND GREEN#
CARE NOW!!!
(together with us)
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If you would like to donate something, please contact us.
Any donations-no matter how small or large-can make a difference!
THANK YOU
TERIMA KASIH
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We are committed to an ecofriendly tourism and feel responsible for humans, animals and nature!
