Mooi Dia Widy's

Hari itu adalah minggu ke-2 sejak ditetapkannya status Gunung Agung menjadi level IV (awas) ketika mentor dan saya berada di tengah-tengah para pengungsi di GOR Suweca Pura, Kelungkung Bali, pusat informasi dan tempat pengungsian utama bagi masyarakat Desa Karangasem yang tinggal dekat dengan Gunung Agung. Kami berdiskusi panjang kira-kira apa kontribusi yang bisa kami lakukan untuk masyarakat yang ada dipengungsian. 

Secara total kira-kira 3 bulan sudah beberapa masyarakat karangasem yang tinggal dekat dengan Gunung Agung berada dipengungsian. Banyak permasalahan yang timbul, mengingat Bali belum memiliki pengalaman yang cukup atas bencana alam Erupsi Gunung yang datang secara tiba-tiba sejak meletus terakhir pada tahun 1963.

Gempa yang datang berkali-kali bukan hanya tengah malam saat warga sedang lelap tertidur tetapi juga siang hari sehingga hal ini menyebabkan masyarakat untuk tinggal di tempat dengan radius yang lebih aman. 

Sejak masyarakat tinggal di pengungsian, beberapa masalah muncul mulai dari masalah tempat tinggal, persediaan makanan yang kurang merata, kesehatan dan sanitasi, sampai masalah akses pendidikan. Karena anak-anak yang ikut mengungsi menyebabkan aktivitas sekolah menjadi tidak aktif sehingga anak-anak tidak lagi produktif padahal mereka seharusnya tetap mendapatkan akses terhadap aktivitas pendidikan. 

Karena permasalahan tersebut akhirnya kami memiliki ide untuk tetap dapat memberikan kesempatan untuk anak-anak belajar dan membaca di tempat pengungsian dengan proyek sosial yaitu Perpustakaan Keliling. Perpustakaan ini berkeliling dari satu tempat pengungsian ke tempat pengungsian yang lainnya. Selain perpustakaan keliling terdapat juga perpustakaan di Temawang Hub yang baru saja diresmikan untuk menunjang pendidikan anak di Desa Selat khususnya. Perpustakaan ini dibuka untuk umum karena siapapun dapat berkunjung dan membaca di perpustakaan kecil ini. 

Perpustakaan ini dibangun, mengingat di Desa Selat Karangasem tidak memiliki perpustakaan umum. Kami menyadari sebagian besar sekolah tidak memiliki fasilitas penunjang pendidikan seperti perpustakaan di dalam sekolah, juga yang paling mencengangkan adalah kurangnya fasilitas dasar penunjang pendidikan seperti Buku. Realita dilapanganya, jika mereka tidak memiliki ruang perpustakaan atau ruang baca, bagaimana mereka akan memiliki perpustakaan? Melihat lebih jauh kedalam hal ini, ternyata tidak hanya sekolah di daerah terpencil saja yang tidak memiliki perpustakaan. Ya betul, ternyata dari data yang kami dapatkan, kurang lebih dua per tiga dari seluruh sekolah yang ada di Indonesia tidak memiliki perpustakaan.

Dengan proyek sosial perpustakaan ini diharapkan dapat membantu meningkatkan minat baca anak-anak dan menjadi ruang untuk mereka belajar dan bermain bersama anak-anak lainnya.

Desa Selat Karangasem, Bali. Di desa ini, banyak anak yang tidak mengenal buku bacaan selain buku-buku yang didapat dari sekolah, itupun terkadang satu buku untuk beberapa anak. Bahkan, tak sedikit yang mengaku, belum pernah membaca komik dan majalah karena di sekolah mereka tidak ada perpustakaan. 

Kondisi demikian tentu memprihatinkan dan tak bisa dibiarkan. Sebab, buku bacaan sangat penting untuk menunjang tumbuh kembang anak. Dengan membaca buku, anak akan memeroleh wawasan dan ilmu pengetahuan. Dengan membaca buku, karakter anak pun akan terbentuk dan kosakatanya bertambah. Selain itu di Temawang Hub ini dapat menjadi tempat anak-anak berkreasi dan bermain dengan teman-teman lainnya sehingga dapat mengurangi aktivitas yang kurang bermanfaat bagi masa tumbuh kembang mereka. 

Dengan diturunkannya status Gunung Agung beberapa minggu yang lalu menjadi level III (Siaga) walaupun terjadi letusan kecil beberapa hari yang lalu, masyarakat Desa Selat Karangasem dapat kembali ke Desa dan melakukan aktivitas sehari-hari seperti biasa. Hal ini yang menjadi kesempatan kami untuk meresmikan sebuah perpustakaan kecil di Temawang Hub (Sebuah Learning Center) untuk anak-anak di Desa Selat.

Gerakan ini diinisiasi oleh salah satu board member kami Dede Prabowo, Gerakan Mari Berbagi(www.g-mb.org) : GMB Bali dan GMB Jepang. Dengan berdirinya perpustakaan ini diharapkan nanti dapat meningkatkan minat baca anak-anak di Desa Selat Karangasem dan sekitarnya. 

Terdapat kurang lebih 300 buku di Temawang Hub dan nantinya beberapa proyek perpustakaan keliling untuk anak-anak di pengungsian akan dilaksanakan bersama beberapa relawan. 

Jika kalian memiliki buku menarik layak baca untuk anak-anak di Desa Selat Karangasem dan tertarik untuk menjadi relawan dapat menghubungi Koordinator GMB Chapter Bali di semua sosial medianya (@widiadiantari).

Terima Kasih :)

(Tunggu postingan saya saat project Perpustakaan Keliling nanti yaaa :) )

Berikut adalah video yang dibuat oleh GMB Jepang dalam rangka untuk proyek sosial perputakaan mini ini :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVAeOey2EEw&feature=youtu.be

 Hai blog, How's life !

Been a long time since I promise you to share about my GHTL experiences. Due to lack of "right" time to write it down and hectic life in the past few months, finally I have my own space of Rehat time focusing on writeeeeee XD 

In the very thick schedule of KKN Universitas Udayana in July-August 2016, I passed and granted platinum scholarship which is fully funded to join INDOHUN Health Leadership Training Program called Global Health True Leaders (GHTL) which is has a fun and attractive way to train health students/professional in order to boardern their networking and make one health vision to bring a betterment in health care sectors. 

Actually I was chosen to be a delegate for Batch 8 which is in Bali at the end of August at the first place but I couldn't make it due to Ujian KKN will be held at those periods of time. So I ask to joined in the batch 7 which conducted in The Kupang at the middle of my KKN life.

A bit galau at first, but really want to go and replaced softly accepted !

This event held from August 11-17, 2016 in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. Exactly, this is my very first time touchdown in Kupang, feeling so blessed but a bit worried about leaving my KKN friends for about a week which I should help to run our community services project. But they all fully supported me and I decided to join the program and come back directly when it has finished.
In this training program, I make new friends who have totally different culture and study/work field background but still has related to one health sector. As you know, GHTL Batch 7 held in Kupang which they have their own local language, it was very diverse and proud to see how rich our country is. The participants of this Batch comes from different part of Indonesia (Jakarta to Papua) so it seems having a new family with each locality uniqueness.

Touchdown Kupang for the first time

Eltari Kupang view from the other side of the Hotel

Eltari sunset from my window

Kak Olive (my roomate), Widia, Kak Doi (another representative from Bali who is my young lecturer)

My beloved "Respect" team always cheerful

We always had homework to do after lecture until in the middle of the night and working in a group as well. Staying up late at night while enjoying the Sunset of Eltari Hotel Kupang was so memorable. 

Especially if you were the participants of GHTL I am truly sure the most unforgetable moment was "LUNCH TIME and SINGING IN OUR VERY EARLY MORNING EXERCISES" HAHAHAHA It was incredible to have those kind of "ANGKATAN STYLE" Lunch and exercises. 

But it was amazing yet truly helpful to trained to be more discipline and respect the food as well as our solidarity among others. 

In the middle of training week, we have the opportunity to do community services and visit one of the rural area in Kampung Oelamasi where people here have some pigs and cows to live together in one area. As we were working in the group, we also spread into some different areas to give livestock supplementation to cows and pigs as well as give some useful information related to prevent any disease that might affected and how to deal with it. We had had a two ways conversation with the local people who share their experiences living with cows and pigs for years and got new insight about different culture and believes from local tradition to treat their pets in that Kampung. Along the way I saw cows everywhere :) :) :) :) 

It was very difficult for us at the first time to give injections to them because you know the kind of pigs and cows in Kupang was very different, they are more aggressive and wild. So our friend from Kupang who was in the group, luckily they are Vet students and familiar with that skills so we taught by them how to do it calmly and perfectly. Thanks brohhh !

It might be once in a lifetime experiences for most of us, because some of our friends didn't interact with Pigs for a specific reasons and especially for me who didn't got those skills at my classes. I have learned so many new knowledge and skills especially dealing with new challenges.

Then after sweating a lot at that day close by having lunch and continued by planting trees along Gereja road where the other group give a free-medical services (check-up and treatment) to the local people nearby. 

After that we visited one of the great place where we could sing some Kupang's songs and Indonesia's Nationality songs accompanied by Sasando, a traditional instrument originally from Kupang. After a short visit, we directly went to one famous village with it mountain. It is Oelbiteno village who has great Mount Fatuleu. 

Sadly, it was late at first because we have to wait for Sepuh who just arrived late in the morning even though we already there earlier such a deal. That is because we have to prayed and ask for permission through Sepuh before we went to climb the mountain where the local people found it is very sacred and believed as the drug mountain on the East Nusa Tenggara. Mount Fatuleu is a towering rock that is quite well-known in Kabupaten Kupang and in district of central Fatuleu. An excellent place for enjoying the beautiful scenery of the Kupang from height of this rock. Wouldn't it be amazing to have those unpredictable track of mountain was uphill sharp and we went there with all people including some of our lecturers. FYI, the participants was very diverse in age HAHA.

So we couldn't reached up the top of the mountain because lack of time and we have to come back to the Hotel which spend 3 hours totally, along the way I could see how beautiful Kupang is, but as you all know it is lack of facilities and dry.

The day after we go somewhere in Kupang I didn't exactly remember the name of the place but it has beautiful waterfall with flyingfox, climbing opportunity, and playing with length of the rope and mud as well hemmm

Well we did our outbound training over there whole day. We had an amazing outbound ever here, facilitated by Bapak-bapak TNI who give us chance to feel how TNI outbound looks like. So funnnnnnn hihihiihihihi

AND finally the training come to its end where we have cultural night. We dressed our traditional clothes and perform some traditional show. It's time to be back !

So that is the end of our amazing and incredibly 8 days in Kupang. Thank you for great experiences, friends, knowledge, Indohun, and other supports as well. 

Until now I am still remember how regret was I couldn't reach Fatuelu's top hill. Will be back later.....
The day before come back, some of the participants decided to go for sightseeing and touchdown to Pasir Panjang beach to feel it warm sunset near our hotel and saw Gong Perdamaian at the central park nearby.

I can't thank you enough to fill my student life with this kind of fruitfull training to be more professional in health care career in the future. I am truly believe this was beneficial not only for my personal life but also for other. Looking forwards for a good collaboration among other GHTL alumni years ahead. 

The most important thing is I have Family now in Kupang :) 

SOOO HaPpYyyy did our "Nose Kiss" when we meet up for the first time :)

One of the tradition from Sabu Raijua called Henge'do to greet new friends and to show our affections as well as revive the sense of family among each other.

Cool right knowing such a warm yet unique tradition which make us get close to each other very fast because of our uniqueness :)

This is also memorable, one message I got from the local people during our community services:

Ale lian munif lifeto ma limone abit bah timor mimanau hambaan amnasi hempanat kesehatan neo ton amnemat || For the teenagers in Kupang, keep your health for the sake of a better future :)

We Are GHTL Batch 7

Less Me More We !!!!@#$%^&*()

GHTL 2016, We Are True Leaders !