The Scale of ELM's Mission

This map helps to understand the scale of the area we will continue to support once we secure full funding for our new mother ship.

The Blue text indicates areas we have supported with "Batavia" & "Electric Lamb" to date.
The Yellow text indicates areas where we have only worked with smaller boats including "Electric Lamb"

Red cities have airports. (Sibolga is a military airstrip)
Green cities are our preferred loading ports.
Yellow shaded areas are the areas we have either already supported or areas we know need support and are not getting any.

The only yellow area we can reach by commercial flight/ferry + vehicle is Gomo in SE Nias.

NW Aceh is serviced by a temporary road but it has deteriorated to the point where it is only passable after extended periods without rain.

There is motorcycle access to West Simeulue but no 4 wheel vehicle access due to bridge damage.

There are no roads on the Banyaks or Batus and only a few km of passable roads in the entire Mentawai chain.

The map of Europe is at the same scale...... We had not compared the extent of our operations area in this way until this morning. The comparison came as something of a shock.

The enormity of the area where ship based support is urgently needed is daunting but no other NGO is equipped to tackle the problem.

Our efforts are focused on raising funds for a new mothership because without it, there will be no hope or help for the isolated communities in the yellow shaded areas. We have continued to work with our small yacht, but frankly it is not efficient and too small to make much impact on the problem alone.

ELM have proven how effective we can be in ship-borne mode and that is our strength - our aid niche. That remains our focus.