Ibu Robin Lim, CPM, is a Filipina~American~Micronesian midwife a founder of Bumi Sehat a non-profit organization in Indonesia, and Wadah Philippines Foundation. Along with amazing team members Ibu (Mother) Robin works to maintain Medical Relief and childbirth clinics in Bali, Aceh (post 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami), Lombok, Indonesia (after devastation of 2018 earthquakes), Sentani, Papua (subject to multiple disasters, both natural and conflict related) In the Philippines team Wadah sustains childbirth clinics in Dulag, (in the aftermath of the super storm Typhoon Haiyan) and Palawan (highest known teen pregnancy rate on Earth).

Ibu Robin’s Passion is respect and Human Rights in Childbirth, and healthcare as a human right, her support has been husband, Wil, Eight amazing grown and growing children plus six grandchildren, born gently into her hands. 

The seed of the BirthKeeper, was planted by her Filipina grandmother, who was a Hilot, traditional healer. It is said that Lola Vicenta planted and anting-anting, in Robin’s heart, so that she would be forever ‘irritated’ by injustice, and devoted to humanity. In 2006 the Alexander Langer Foundation honored Ibu Robin as the Premier Alexander Langer. In 2011 Ibu Robin was chosen CNN Hero of the Year. In 2012 APPPAH The Association for Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health gave Ibu Robin the Jeannine Parvati BirthKeeper award.

In the shadow of the global pandemic, Bumi Sehat has helped provide basic foods to unemployed families. Special outreach is made for village elders and pregnant mothers, to maintain their health and nutrition. Lim and her family/friends have harvested, dried, ground, encapsulated and tinctured heritage anti-viral herbs. Over 300,000 capsules and hundreds of tinctures have been given to the people for free. Using traditional herbal medicines of the Philippines and Indonesia plus the wisdom of the elders, illness and suffering has been prevented and people have been cured.