In May 2011 ago, I attended a joint program of Department of Food Science and Technology IPB and PT SMART TBK, titled
Utilization Provitamin A in Red Palm Oil to Overcome Lack of Vitamin A in Indonesia
In this program, i’ve a role as one of facilitators. The number of facilitators in this program is 37 students at level S1 (Bachelor), S2 (Master), and S3(Doctor), to be placed in the village around Campus IPB Dramaga -Bogor.
A vision of this program is to overcome vitamin A deficiency with several missions undertaken, such as, educates people about the important benefits of vitamin A, makes people aware that taking vitamin A is important for health, provides assistance in the form of red palm oil as a source of pro -vitamin A.
These missions ran by facilitators who have been trained. Basicly, facilitators were given sufficient knowledges about the benefits of vitamin A, red palm oil, and procedures for communicating with the respondents.
The program ran from May 22 until July 26, 2011, call it SawitA Program. I and 4 of my friends (Kornelia Rismarini, Nurul Hidayati Azizah, Nur Sofia, and Euis Fujiarti) placed in Neglasari. The village is located quite far from campus IPB Dramaga, and can be reached by public transport as much as 2 times, Bubulak or Laladon Terminal destination, then public transport Cibeureum destination.
Before the program began, we visited the village to meet the village head and looking for potential respondents for this program. Because this program is an assistance program of PT SMART TBK, the selected respondent was a pre-prosperous families (that is, poor families). Each facilitator has a cluster and each cluster consists of 50 respondents from several pre-prosperous families. Another criterion of the selected respondents were women over the age of 2 years up to seniors who can still talk to. The reason is women and child who generally suffer vitamin A deficiency In Indonesia (Source: a, b)
From the 6 Pillars of Residents in the village, we chose one of them (RW 03) to ease in running the program. The selection of respondents done by screening based on data owned by cadres who appointed by the Village Head; Mrs. Yani and Mrs. Kurniasih. During the program, they gave a lot of help and contributions. After the screening, we visited the candidates of respondents. Besides to seeking information about their economic circumstances, we also invited them to be our respondents.
The next step is finding the data about their basic knowledges about vitamin A and red palm oil. The results are all respondents do not know the CPO, never eat red palm oil, and do not know the benefits of red palm oil. Most of them just know that source of vitamin A is only carrots.
It has to concerned seriously.
My first motive is only to run the program till finished, but after i met them (my respondents actually), a sense of responsibility as a student of Food Science and Technology- appeared.
All selected respondents were invited to attend a first mass meeting, on May 22, 2011. And incidentally, that day was my birthday. It was nice to celebrate my birthday by doing something useful :)
First mass meeting consisted of gymnastics in the morning, sharing information about SawitA (brand name of red palm oil), cooking demonstrations using SawitA, distributed incentives and SawitA to all respondents.This meeting wasnt run well. Actually, that was the first time we did it. Our mistakennes at the meeting caused of less coordination with the respondents, respondents data that has not been fixed, and the inefficiency of procedures for distribution of incentives, so we were overwhelmed by the participants was not listed as a SawitA respondent.
Second Mass meeting held on June 19, 2011 ran smoothly. This activity is held on SDN II Neglasari. Generally, the meeting consisted of the same contents with first meeting. The difference was red palm oil was distributed is SawitA Gurih.
Third mass meeting held on July 26, 2011 also ran smoothly. This activity consisted of SawitA -cooking contest, post-test (to determine respondents' understanding about SawitA program), cooking demonstrations using Presto Cooker and Blender, and also distributed incentives. This meeting is the most interesting meeting.
During this program, the facilitator is also required to fill in five questionnaires in predetermined time. The questionnaire consists of five forms. Each form contains different questions. Questionnaires completed by interviewing respondents.
In 3 months, I got a lot of experiences. One of them is how to be grateful for everything we have. There are still many people in need. Many woman quited their school at elementary school. They have been married and have many children. They are no longer able to enjoy their youth. The majority of respondents live in rented houses or very small huts. But they can still be grateful for whatever they get and have. In addition, I also get so many prayers and the strength from the respondents.
3 months was so meaningful.
I became more spirit to face life and reaching goals. Hopefully my little step can draw a smile on their faces. When i was child, I dreamed of traveling the world to gather smiles from people I visited.
Thanks to:
1. PT SMART TBK, as donor aid of SawitA program
2. Prof. Fransisca and Dr. Waysima, for all the supports, advices till the end of program
3. Mbak Nindhira for patience to face my quibbling
4. SAWITA TEAM; Kornelia Rismarini, Nurul Hidayati Azizah, Nur Sofia, and Euis Fujiarti, for their patience, help, humility, and team work
5. Mrs. Yani and Mrs. Kur, and 12 other volunteers for patience and helps
6. All respondents of SawitA, for the information provided and the willingness to be the respondents for 3 months
7. Mama Papa Wibi Yoga Mas Yogi, for the spirit, smiles, prayers, and advices given
8. And the others who helped the program ran smoothly, which can not be mentioned.
a.http://www.jurnas.com/news/26906/Gizi_Buruk_Disebabkan_Kekurangan_Vitamin_A/9/Sosial_Budaya/Kesehatan
b. http://www.foodreview.biz/preview.php?view2&id=8011
Some documentations :
With Love,
Dini
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