Impoverished housing conditions faced by many in Kupang, Indonesia, has spurred Etex to team up with SELAVIP, our global partner in social housing, and the local Tukelakang Entete Foundation to provide housing to 51 poor families there. This dry, barren city is located in the East Nusa Tenggara province, one of the poorest provinces in Indonesia and home to 5.2 million residents. Etex and SELAVIP have agreed to donate Kalsi materials for the construction, alongside a USD 70,000 grant for the project. The construction started in 2021 and is scheduled to last five to six months. For the initial stage, the Tukelakang Entete Foundation will build a prototype to serve as a model for another 50 houses, all of which will be built on land owned by each project beneficiary.
The beneficiaries will play a key role in the project as construction workers/ labourers, cleaning building locations, carrying materials and levelling the house foundations with landfill. The houses will be 5 x 7 m and provide three rooms (living room, dining/family room and bedroom). The construction itself consists of a cement foundation, Kalsi board partitions, zinc roof, Kalsi ceiling, ‘Kalsi Listplank’, cement floor, triplex doors and glass windows. The Tukelakang Entete Foundation has experience building houses nearby and will therefore handle the technical implementation, while overall project supervision will be handled by an external building consultant. Once the houses are successfully completed, the Tukelakang Entete Foundation will stand out as an example for other organisations with similar projects in the future.
