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Presenting Results of Pilot Project on Human Rights Violations
May 2022. To close our 3-month pilot project about how people affected by leprosy can investigate human rights violation, we reported our results to the leprosy control program of South Sulawesi and to...
Pilot Project on Investigations of Human Rights Violations
April 2022. This month we have completed the main part of our pilot project, which is to find out how people affected by leprosy can collect facts and evidence about human rights violations in leprosy....
PRA exercises: The youth for the old
8 April 2022. As part of the VOICE-funded Pakarena project, the Sipakatau-Pakarena teams (young people affected by leprosy) conducted three Participatory Rural Assessment (PRA) exercises with older persons...
Human Rights Review on Leprosy by PerMaTa Sulsel/YDTI
9 March 2022. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a regular review of the human rights records of all 193 UN member states. In 2022, after 5 years, it is Indonesia’s turn again to report on its progress...
Talkshow about leprosy on national television
8 February 2022. Part of this year’s World Leprosy Day celebrations and activities was a talk show on national TVRI. Invited were Ms. Andi Erna, Head of the Provincial Health Department for Communicable...
World Leprosy Day 2022 - Convoy through South Sulawesi
31 January 2022. World Leprosy Day is celebrated every last Sunday of January. With financial support from the Sasakawa Health Foundation and NLR Indonesia, YDTI and PerMaTa South Sulawesi organized a...
New group of young people affected by leprosy trained by their peers
20 November 2021. “Sipakatau” is a group of young people in Gowa, South Sulawesi who are affected by leprosy and who have been guided and trained in a 2-year project by PerMaTa South Sulawesi / YDTI to...
Awareness about leprosy through TV and Radio
5 November 2021. Leprosy is only feared so much because people don’t know what it is. Dare This Indonesia (YDTI) and PerMaTa South Sulawesi inform society through a number of different media. Sasakawa...
Policy Brief on health care for people affected by leprosy
15 October 2021. PerMaTa South Sulawesi and YDTI hosted a two-day workshop in Makassar to discuss the precarious situation of persons affected by leprosy needing advanced wound care and reaction treatment,...
Capacity building Sipakatau team - VOICE 2021-23
9 September 2021. We conducted our second capacity building workshop as part of the new empowerment project for young people affected by leprosy that is taking pleace 2021-23 with the support from VOICE...
Events
June 2022
Jun 20 - 30 2022
Training Reconstructive Surgery in Leprosy
Makassar, South Sulawesi
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Yayasan Dedikasi Tjipta Indonesia (English: Dare This Indonesia)
We are a non-profit organization based in Makassar, Eastern Indonesia.
DARE THIS stands for our key areas Disability, Accessibility, Reproductive-, sexual-, and public health and the Environment.
Our Mission
To facilitate the empowerment of marginalised and vulnerable communities, in particular persons affected by leprosy, to achieve an inclusive life within an environmentally healthy and just society.
Projects and Activities

Misereor: Empowerment of young people affected by leprosy in Bantaeng and Barru
Misereor Germany supports us in a project in the districts of Bantaeng and Barru in
June 3, 2022
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SHF: Pilot Project to collect evidence on Human Rights violation
Through our work in previous projects we have found many people who are affected by
March 23, 2022
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VOICE: Youth Empowerment in South Sulawesi, Indonesia 2021-2023
Increasing self-worth and overcoming self-stigma of young people affected by leprosy by helping elderly people
March 14, 2022
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Access to health care and rehabilitation
Persons affected by leprosy in Indonesia often do not have adequate medical and rehabilitative care.
March 14, 2022
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