01 — Nature
Palemahan
Harmony with nature
Clean beaches, streets and reefs across Bali — protecting the land and sea that give the island its life. Home of our flagship initiative, The Sweep.
Lovina · North Bali
BLESS is a social fund built on one belief: this island gives the world its beauty, its warmth, its soul — and it deserves something back. To its nature, its people, and its spirit.
Our story
BLESS is the social fund of AURA Wellness Resort — born on the north coast of Bali, out of a belief the Balinese live by every day: that wellbeing means nothing unless it is shared.
Picking up plastic is where we started — but it was never the whole story. As the world discovers Lovina, much of its community is still left behind: beaches under pressure, schools without books, families without a safety net, traditions fighting to survive. BLESS gives back on every front — not just to the land, but to the people and the culture that make Bali what it is.
Bali gives us everything.
We give it back.
Three harmonies. One island. Every rupiah stays in Bali — turning a growing corner of the island into something the island keeps.
What we give back
Everything BLESS funds sits within Tri Hita Karana — the Balinese path to harmony between nature, people, and the divine. We don't pick causes from afar. We fund what the island tells us it needs.
Clean beaches, streets and reefs across Bali — protecting the land and sea that give the island its life. Home of our flagship initiative, The Sweep.
English lessons in village schools, books and supplies for children, and support for elders and families — a real head start for the next generation of Bali.
Protecting the temples, ceremonies and traditions at the heart of Balinese life — because giving back means honouring the culture, not just the coastline.
Nature · Palemahan
“A clean day across Bali.
We clean what we love.”
The Sweep is how we show up for the island's nature — a recurring day when our team, local villagers and schoolchildren walk Bali's coastline and streets together, and give them back to the island. One of the many ways we say thank you, because the mission was always bigger than plastic.
A clean day across Bali
We clean what we love
Our programmes
One fund, many fronts. Each programme lives under one of the three harmonies of Tri Hita Karana — and every one is run with the community, on the ground in Bali.
Our signature movement — recurring clean-up days across Bali's streets, beaches and reefs, run hand-in-hand with local villages and schools. A clean day across Bali.
Safe drinking water and wells for rural villages on the north coast.
Protecting coastlines and marine life beyond the Sweep itself.
Volunteer-led English lessons giving village children a head start.
Books, uniforms and supplies for children who go without.
Dignity and support for elders and families who need a hand.
Preserving the temples, ceremony and traditions at the heart of Bali.
Skills, tools and fair work for local families — income that stays on the island.
Basic healthcare and check-ups for elders and families who go without.
The founders
BLESS wasn't founded from a boardroom. It was founded on the ground in Bali — by two people who fell in love with the island and refused to only take from it.
Joshua Rix and Younes Deaibes lead the fund hands-on: from the first Sweep on the streets of Bali to the classrooms of Lovina. Backed by the AURA Wellness Resort family and its development partners, BLESS turns real presence on the island into real change for its communities.
The movement
What started with two people and a handful of bags is now a growing community of volunteers, villagers and partners — all giving back to the same island. Bali gave us everything. Together, we give it back.
Where we work
Figures reflect our founding commitments for the first programme year. Verified impact numbers are published here as each Sweep and project is completed.
On the ground
In partnership with
BLESS is powered by the AURA Wellness Resort family and its development partners — turning growth on the island into something the island keeps.
Get involved
Whether you run a school, a village clean-up, a cultural or community initiative on the island — or you'd like to back one — start here. We read every submission personally.