About Us
VZW Bimesa is an abbreviation of Belgian Indonesian Medical Social Association and was founded in 2004. It is a Belgian non-profit organisation. Our activities cover on-site medical aid and social-educational help as well. We are mostly self supporting and voluntary work is one of the basic philosophies.
Our Past
The history began in February 2004 when some founders at that time wished to do something for the Indonesian people who need help without looking at the origin, culture and religion. So Bimesa was born. Unfortunately some few months later the devastating Tsunami hit north-Sumatra. That’s the reason why we focussed on the relief of the Tsunami’s victims by sending a physician and a container with some dental units, microscope and so on to Aceh during 2005. Thereafter in 2006 en 2007 Flores was and is our priority. The last missions were in september and october 2008 when a team of maxillofacial surgeon, anesthetist, stomatologists, dentists and ophthalmologists worked there.