Join Our Cause

You can take part in permanently changing the lives of families in Aceh.

JMD works with beneficiaries to carefully design enterprise programs that are economically- and environmentally-sustainable for generations to come. By offering any size gift, you can provide the equipment, livestock and training to help people in remote and rural areas of Aceh build a new future.

100% of gifts given will go directly to the people in Aceh, JMD covers all organizational and overhead costs.

Business Start-up Programs
Seeds

5 packs of seeds for $20 can be sown to grow crops to eat or to sell, or to grow fodder for livestock.

Business Start-up Programs
Cocoa Farmers in East Aceh

Support cocoa farmers by giving $55, which will give them training and basic tools farmers need to increase annual cocoa crop production. will provide one farming family with training and basic agricultural tools

Business Start-up Programs
Chickens

$20 will buy 50 chickens, which may be bred to create an on-going supply of chickens for laying eggs, for sale at market, or to provide nutrition for one family.

Business Start-up Programs
Feed and house animals and poultry

Designed to keep animals safe, healthy and sheltered, for $40 farmers can house and feed their poultry and livestock in specially designed units, using renewable materials.

Business Start-up Programs
Education for Adults

For $60, adults who haven't had the opportunity to complete their schooling can be tutored through a national syllabus which will allow them to sit an exam and gain a certificate equivalent to elementary, junior or senior high school. These certified tutoring courses give adults the chance not only to go on to apply for jobs and further education but to learn to read and write and have access to the education they deserve.

Business Start-up Programs
Goat Breeding
& Rearing Enterprises

Female breeding goat that will give birth and increase the herd to include more families in the years ahead $200

Male goat to ensure continual off-spring and herd growth $200