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Yayasan Jejak Kasih Indonesia is establishing its first school kitchen in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, built to a written food safety standard. Funding is raised and receipted by EffortX Foundation Ltd (Australia).

We are establishing our first school kitchen. The site is not yet decided: we are completing a school survey and speaking with local government so that we do not build something that already exists. This page will be updated when the site is chosen. The foundation has no kitchen, no kitchen staff, no hygiene certificate, no cold chain and no confirmed power supply. What follows is a set of commitments, not a description of capabilities that already exist. Our original plan was stopped once we established that kitchens serving the national programme had already been built in the same district. An additional kitchen in the same place is not service, it is waste. The kitchen will be built to the specification the national nutrition agency sets for an SPPG unit, including the hygiene certificate and the six kilometre service radius. The reason is simple: a kitchen that does not meet that standard cannot enter the national programme, and its meals stay dependent on donations for as long as it runs. The approach is to refit an existing building to the SPPG standard, at a design capacity of 3,000 portions a day. We are choosing one location and doing it properly rather than many at once. A safe kitchen that runs every school day is worth more than several that stop. The estimated operating cost is Rp 15.250 per portion, about US$0.94. This figure is operating cost only and excludes the capital cost of building the kitchen. The free school meals programme, Makan Bergizi Gratis, is run by the national nutrition agency through service units called SPPG. Once a school is covered by that programme, the daily cost of its meals is carried by government rather than by donations. Entry to the national programme is not guaranteed and may not be quick. Designation as an SPPG is a decision of the national nutrition agency, not of the foundation. Until our kitchen enters the programme and that funding flows, the cost of the meals stays with the foundation. The foundation is not part of any government programme today, does not represent any government body, and holds no designation from any agency. Entering the national programme is the plan, not a present fact. One kitchen at one school cannot prove an outcome at population level, and we will not say otherwise. What can be proved is which controls were run, the records that go with them, what it actually cost, and whether the kitchen ran every school day. Funds are raised and receipted by EffortX Foundation Ltd (Australia) and then released to the yayasan in stages. The first release is made when the project reaches its funding goal. Evidence for each stage unlocks the next release. Donations are not currently tax-deductible in Australia. The siting decision is scheduled for September 2026.