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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