People Fixing The World: BBC World Service features Health In Harmony

It was a beautiful, wonderful thing to be in the rainforest, but I could hear chainsaws all around me.

Listen to founder Kinara Webb tell the story of how Health In Harmony was founded, on the esteemed BBC World Service radio show “People Fixing The World”. 

HIH was originally founded in 2005 to provide affordable and accessible medical care, alongside the ASRI project in West Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo. The first health clinic provided basic medical care and surgeries at discounted rates, meaning local community members were not forced to turn to logging to pay for the human right of healthcare. Seedlings and volunteer work were also accepted as payment. 

As BBC World Service assesses: “The psychology behind [HIH’s work] motivates people to take an interest in the environment around them. First, the needs of food, shelter, security, and health need to be met.”

Through audio clips recorded in the Gunung Palung National Park, the radio show looks at how HIH partners are using bioacoustic recordings to monitor biodiversity and wildlife.

Thanks to World Service for also spotlighting HIH’s work retraining people in rainforest communities, as well as HIH’s chainsaw buyback programs. 

“People Fixing The World” celebrates brilliant solutions to the world's problems and the people executing them, globally. Listen here!