PEKANBARU (November 2, 2022) - Abiseka Center Pekanbaru Riau realized the
distribution of Social Rehabilitation Assistance (ATENSI) worth IDR 4.5 billion
to Beneficiaries (PM) in their working areas. This is a mandate to help
vulnerable groups to be able to function socially and normally in living their
daily lives.
"We are carrying out the directives of the
Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini to immediately complete the
distribution of ATENSI assistance in Abiseka Center work area," said
Abiseka Center Head Agus Hasyim Ibrahim in Pekanbaru (2/11).
According to the results, the target for ATENSI to be distributed by Abiseka Center
in 2022 is 1,987 beneficiaries worth more than IDR 4.5 billion, which will be
provided in the form of goods and other ATENSI components of the assessment.
"Before the assistance was given, the team
conducted a comprehensive ATENSI assessment. To find out the needs of potential
beneficiaries with the aim of ATENSI that we distributed exactly according to
the needs," continued Agus.
Based on data from Abiseka Center, ATENSI
Beneficiaries in Abiseka Center work area are spread across 13 regencies with
each cluster targeting 1,083 elderly, 278 persons with disabilities, 368 Children,
216 Drugs Abuse Victims and Persons Living with HIV/AIDS, and 42 vulnerable
groups.
Assistance was distributed in the form of proper living
support to meet daily needs in the form of nutrition for elderly, children, disabled, and vulnerable groups, personal hygiene tools, to support children's education, and distributed school supplies, groceries, and educational game tools.
Accessibility assistance for persons with
disabilities and the elderly in the form of prosthetic legs, prosthetic arms,
standard wheelchairs, child wheelchairs, 3in1 wheelchairs, 4in1 wheelchairs, CP
wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, blind canes, 1 leg canes, 3 leg canes, canes 4
feet, decubitus mattress, hearing aid, glasses, stroller, and adaptive cane.
Additionally, entrepreneurship packages and
3-wheeled motorbikes were distributed to improve the beneficiaries' standard of living.
The assistance distribution was done
directly by visiting the beneficiary's house or at the nearest
location by inviting beneficiaries.
"Today, we from Abiseka Sentra Pekanbaru carried out the distribution of ATENSI assistance to 20 elderly and 10 people living with HIV in Bengkalis Regency, Mandau Duri District, and the implementation was carried out at the Bengkalis Regency Social Office," said the Associate Level Social Worker of Abiseka Center Pekanbaru, Lisdawati in Bengkalis Regency (2/11).