Blessed To Be A Blessing
Thursday, 30 August 2018by adminstube
My name is Sepritus Tangaru Mahamu, usually called by my friends “Sep”. I’m a college student of East Sumba State Community Academy, an off-domicile education under Agricultural Polytechnic of Kupang state polytechnic. The farming department has two study programs, that is, livestock production and animal health. The last is the one which I study.
This was the point where I start to know about Stube HEMAT Sumba, an organization which has a vision to have social awareness among people, especially for college students and youths. From this activity, I quoted what Trustha Rembaka, coordinator of Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta said, “Now, it is the time to start a step to realize your ideas and be an independent youth” that encouraged me to step a head which affects what happens in Sumba then.
Here is where my curiosity to know more began, even I became in love with Stube HEMAT Sumba. Since then I didn’t want to miss any programs held by Stube HEMAT Sumba. One of them was the journalistic training held on June 2017. It was the first time in Indonesians’ history that people celebrated the day when Pancasila was born in accordance to President Decree No. 24, 2017. It was in a training session delivered by Oskar Shaja, the curator of Waingapu.com, I managed to create my first article entitled “Celebrations with Garuda label” which was published in Waingapu.com. My first article was very momentous for me because it also motivated me to produce more articles. It was beyond logic that there’s a strong push within me to share my knowledge that brought me to be a journalist at Suara Jarmas - a local newspaper for teenagers and youths. For the first move, I cooperated with Pandawai 1st Senior High School and made a journalistic training for senior high school in August 2017 through Ana Tana community. I personally established this community to be a place for Pandawai youths and teenagers to channel their creativity and talents.
Besides that, I also had another program in Stube HEMAT Sumba, which was the most memorable for me, that is, when I was given a chance to be a blessing for my village in Laihobu, part of Paberiwai district through ‘Village and Me’ program on August 2017. There, I was literally sent to be a blessing for the village. I started the program by singing with the vocal group of Laihobu branch of GKS Kananggar, followed by playing along and sharing with toddlers and teachers. I did some activities by sharing, teaching, and at the end, I distributed stationaries to the students of Laihobu Primary School.
There’s still another great blessing for me to be a participant of Exposure to Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta program with Jufry Adipapa and Meliani Retang. This is truly God’s blessing that made me literally speechless. My task now is focusing on my studies and learning more knowledge in Yogyakarta to be applied and shared in Sumba.
“Today, you’re truly blessed through Stube HEMAT activities; therefore you need to prove the ‘impact’ as the gratitude of blessing to bless others. You need to move from your old habits, and habituate on doing the right thing, not preserving the things you’re used to doing”, said Ariani Narwastujati, the executive director of Stube HEMAT in Indonesia.
I’m so certain that because I’m blessed, therefore I’m determined to be a blessing for others. (STM).