Yayasan Usaha Mulia (YUM), meaning 'Foundation for Noble Work', has worked for more than four decades in this vast archipelago to support communities, to give them hope and a way out of the cycle of poverty.

YUM is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the quality of life of the poor in Indonesia across health, education and community development.

YUM concentrates its health projects in the regions where there are the poorest levels of access to health services and knowledge in Indonesia. Its education projects focus on giving young people from poor backgrounds the opportunity to experience and enjoy learning and reap the associated benefits. And YUM undertakes a number of community development projects with the goal of strengthening community networks and empowering individuals to help themselves.

Susila Dharma Britain has supported a variety of YUM projects through the years, including the YUM Vocational Training College in Kalimantan, which addresses the lack of skills and employability among poorer young people in the area by providing training in computer skills, hairdressing, food processing, English, finance, tourism, recycling and job seeking skills for students ranging from 13 to over 20 years of age.
 

In recent years SD Britain helped fund a Stunting-prevention programme in Kalimantan, supporting expecting and new mothers struggling with poor nutrition to better their diets and healthcare. This is to counter the local problem of young babies and toddlers growing up without the sufficient vitamins and minerals to develop strong brains and gain full growth potential. YUM worked with community leaders in the Dayak villages that it trained in the specific stunting prevention programme to develop an outreach programme supporting married women and couples in the area. 

We have also been proud to fund a pilot project to extend training based on YUM's proven approach to agroforestry as an approach to working with the challenging soils of a deforested area of Central Kalimantan to produce food in harmony with, rather than against, natural cycles. We funded the initial research and the collection of data around the pilot. This project is designed to help small landholder farmers address climate change adaptation through sustainable land use solutions. Recently the YUM project has been successful in garnering major funding support through SD Germany from the German government, and SD Britain is match-funding this to enable the agroforestry project to start significant new projects with the local Dayak communities to establish agroforestry as a viable technique for sustainable agriculture in central Kalimantan