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The Team
Like most under-funded volunteer organizations Kupu-Kupu depends upon the hard work of a few dedicated people. These are the people that are the heart and soul of Kupu-Kupu.
Begonia
Lopez
Begonia is from Spain and 39 years old. She is a social worker and she
loves to work with people. Almost all her life she has been doing
social work in many different areas - working with children with
disabilities, people with psychiatric problems, women with
breast cancer, running a school for women for 8 years, and looking after
elderly people in geriatric hospitals. She lived for five years in
Edinburgh where she worked in nursing homes looking after
elderly people and patients with MS (multiple sclerosis). In 1998, while
living in Scotland she traveled to Asia and first came to Bali. It
was then that she fell in love with Bali, their people and their
culture.
Begonia loves traveling, playing with children, talking to friends, walking in the rice fields, going to the villages and spending time talking to the people with disabilities and their families.
Kepa
Azanza
Kepa is president
of the NGO Kupu-Kupu in Navarra. The same year that the Foundation was registered in
the Basque Country, Begonia met Kepa in Bali. Kepa is a man who loves Bali as much
as Begonia and he wanted to help so one year later he decided to open a fund raising branch in
his hometown of Pamplona, Spain. Kepa
loves traveling, reading, photography and discovering other cultures. He
describes himself as being hooked on the charms of other people and
countries around the world and especially Indonesia and Bali.
Nieves
Aleman
Nieves is an old friend of Begonia's and lives in Vitoria,
Spain. Since 2002 she has been the main contact between the
Foundation and the Spanish support and fund raising group in Vitoria. She is so enthusiastic and full of ideas.
Agung
Putradhyana
Agung is Chairman of the Board of Kupu-Kupu Foundation, which is
formerly known as LSM
Kupu-Kupu Bali. Agung is an architect who designed and managed the building of the kitchen school for handicapped
located in Bangli. Since then he has remained involved with the Foundation.
In addition to helping the handicapped, Agung loves to also work on environmental issues.