Students Contribute to Their Villages   Vi & Mi (Village and Me) Program        

Wednesday, 11 December 2019
by adminstube
 

 

The opportunity for youths in Sumba to continue their studies to higher education is a valuable opportunity to improve their quality also the community life. The knowledge and skills they get in campus should also be felt by the villagers where they live. Stube-HEMAT Sumba as a student and youth mentoring service in Sumba encouraged them to pay attention to their villages and open opportunities through Village and Me program in the second period 2 of 2019, to ‘share blessings' of the knowledge and skills they learned in campus. The three-student participants are:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bernadus Zakarias Weni Liwang, a seventh-semester student of Christian Religious Education at Theological college of Sumba Christian Church in Lewa, East Sumba. He was motivated to take part in developing human resources, especially children and young people in his village in Lewa Paku, Lewa sub-district, East Sumba. He designed a mentoring program for children and teens, especially for English language course in Pingi Ai Luri, one of the branch church of GKS Pametikarata, Lewa. This activity is carried out four times a week, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 16.00-18.00 during October-November at the church.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dozens of elementary and junior high school children and teens learned English enthusiastically because they rarely get this kind of activity in their village. They learned simple vocabularies such as the alphabet, numbers, names of days, months and years, they also read short text. Then, they practiced the pronunciation in front of their friends. This method strengthened their confidence as an addition to learn English words itself. Even they wanted not just learning English but learning other lessons, so Bernad opened chance for his friends as facilitator for children and young people in learning other subjects.

 

 

 

Trisno Karepi Kahendu, a young man born in Praipaha, February 22, 1998. He lives in Pepuwatu village, where people depend on agriculture so that he is familiar with land management, preparing seed, formulating fertilizer and food crop preparation, such as rice, corn, peanuts, sweet potatoes and taro. Trisno is currently studying Agrotechnology at Wira Wacana Christian University, which equips him with knowledge related to agriculture and technology that support agriculture.

 

 

 

 

In November 2019, he and the residents of Pepuwatu village, Nggaha Ori Angu sub-district, East Sumba Regency gathered in Rawa Madap, including the local hamlet apparatus, Giling Kawara Konda and Yunus Ngamba Handa Mbewa to practice making bokashi fertilizer, both solid and liquid fertilizer. The basic ingredients used are fresh water, liquid palm sugar, em4, rice bran (pau) and animal dung (chicken, goat, horse). The material is mixed and stirred slowly in a plastic drum and closed, opened once a day, stirred slowly and closed again for one week to be ready to use.

 

 

 

Julian Huki Pahawali, from the village of Praikarang, East Sumba and is studying Agribusiness at Wira Wacana Christian University. He was eager to assist the children in Mbinudita parallel elementary school in Nggaha Ori Angu sub-district and together with the residents built the classrooms.

 

 

 

The existence of Mbinudita Parallel Elementary School itself is a response of the local village community to the long distance between the village and the closest education facilities, because the closest elementary school is 5-6 kilometers away from their village, so, it is hard enough for the first and second grade students to walk to school every day. Last year the community built temporary learning class with wooden frames, bamboo walls and alang-alang roofs, so that new classrooms were needed to facilitate children's learning process. This school faced consequences, such as limited teaching facilities and unavailability of permanent teachers to teach. Julian, as a young man and student from the local village was moved to share his time during study in campus and accompany the learning process there.

 

 

The works of these young people need to be appreciated, even though small activity in village but it has positive impact for the local community and village. This is our dream if every Indonesian student has concern to village. Indonesia with 83.931 village level administrative areas (BPS 2018) invites educated people to make villages continue improving and increasing people’s interest to live and work, so that villages develop and the welfare of the community will come true. (TRU).


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