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Inaugurating ATENSI Creation Center of Paramita, Social Minister Risma: Works with Added Value Have High Selling Power

  • Inaugurating ATENSI Creation Center of Paramita, Social Minister Risma: Works with Added Value Have High Selling Power
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Writer :
Humas Ditjen Rehabilitasi Sosial
Editor :
Annisa YH
Translator :
Karlina Irsalyana

MATARAM (14 October 2021) - The ATENSI Creation Center of Social Rehabilitation Center Paramita Mataram was officially opened by Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini accompanied by Secretary General Harry Hikmat. This inauguration was also accompanied by the delivery of ATENSI support totaling Rp. 826,622,700,- for beneficiaries in the city of Mataram, Central Lombok Regency, North Lombok Regency, and West Lombok Regency.

 

The ATENSI Creation Center (SKA) Paramita Mataram is a center for entrepreneurship and vocational development as well as a medium for promoting the work of beneficiaries in one area. This center will also become an empowerment area to create independent entrepreneurial embryos.

 

Marked by the signing of the inscription, Social Minister Risma hopes that in this SKA, children can practice and add skills to prepare them to develop a business when they grow up. "So you are here not only able to make works, but how can these works have added value so that they have high selling power," he ordered.

 

At SKA Paramita Mataram there are Culinary Centers and Parama Coffee, Laundry, Small Shops, and Handicraft Centers.

 

In addition, there are also workshops as a vehicle for training and therapy for beneficiaries, namely Oyster Mushroom Cultivation, Fish Cultivation, Klanceng Bee Cultivation, production welding skills, carpentry, and beauty skills.

 

*ATENSI Support Strengthens the Spirit of Beneficiaries*

 

After visiting several centers at Paramita Center, Social Minister Risma again provided reinforcement and motivation to children whose parents died due to Covid-19, the elderly, and people with disabilities who received ATENSI support.

 

The assistance provided was worth a total of Rp. 826,622,700 consists of accessibility support, savings for orphans, fatherless and motherless, basic needs and nutrition as well as entrepreneurship assistance.

 

Azra Ferista Olivia (15 years old) feels grateful to be given attention by the government. This support adds to his enthusiasm to keep fighting, not to give up, and continue to reach her goals as her father's message.

 

She braced himself not to get lost in sadness after her beloved father passed away due to Covid-19. She remembers well the last time her father came to see her at the cottage even though he was sick to meet her for one last time.


 

"Father said this: never be afraid to move forward to be better. All people love you,  Via, don't ever think that your dreams will end here," she recalled. It was the message that made her strong to face the conditions of grief and rise.

Similar to Nurhalimah, the mother of Muhammad Ilyas (6 years old), a physically disabled person who also has lung problems, is not desperate to take her child for treatment for the sake of her child's recovery.

"I've taken treatment everywhere. But it hasn't healed yet. I'm glad Ilyas got the help of an adaptive wheelchair. Because all this time Ilyas has been carried. He can't move on his own at his age. I'm sure one day Ilyas will be able to walk," she said.

The inauguration was attended by Members of Commission VIII DPR RI, Rahmat Hidayat and Nanang Samodra, Special Staff to the Minister of Social Affairs, Echelon I and II Officials of the Ministry of Social Affairs, DPD RI, Evita Apita Maya, Regent of West Lombok H. Fauzan Khalid, Head of National Library M. Syarif Bando and Head of the NTB Provincial Library and Archives Service, Julmansyah.
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