Anda Baper dan Bete, Innovation of the Mataram "Paramita" Children's Center

WEST LOMBOK (February 2, 2021) - The innovation of "Paramita" Children's Center in Mataram in the form of Anda Baper and Bete is an abbreviation of Young Children Bring Change with Bee Entrepreneurship, a program based on the concept of Sociopreneurship is used as a strategy to increase the entrepreneurial spirit of Social Welfare Service Children Recipients (PPKS Anak) at the "Paramita" Children's Center.

It is not easy to start something new at the PPKS premises, which are children. However, this is not an obstacle for "Paramita" Children's Center to continue working.

Kustadi, as the instructor said "At first it was not easy to get children to start learning honey bee farming because most of them are children who are in conflict with the law. However, with my belief that everyone can change, the children's enthusiasm will gradually change. "Children begin to appear. Several other challenges, namely making the box as an ideal bee hive, placing the honey box so that the bees don't leave easily, preparing and selecting flower plants as a source of food for bees, separating the queen bee and harvesting honey"

After one year running, we can see the results of this program. PPKS has started to harvest honey.

I Ketut Supena as the Head of the "Paramita" Children's Center said, "This innovation is one of our efforts so that children can devote their minds to positive things and they also have entrepreneurship knowledge references, so that later they can be independent in attitude and economy. "

"R" one of the PPKS said, "I am very happy to be able to learn to process bee cultivation into honey. It was not easy at first, but if we are persistent and don't give up easily, we can reap the results."

The Head of the Center hopes that this activity can be sustainable and become one of the production goods with economic value that increases the productivity of children in their youth.