Opening the Knowledge Horizon of As-Atat Asmat Children on National Children's Day 2022

At the Asatat location, a series was held by MoSA through the Directorate of Remote Indigenous Community Empowerment and Entrepreneurship, the Integrated Center Prof. Soeharso Solo, Directorate of Child Social Rehabilitation and BBPPKS Jayapura. The activity was supported by Agats Diocese and Asmat District Government. Continuously implemented from 27 July to 1 August 2022.

One of the focuses of empowerment in Asatat is the provision of educational facilities in the form of information technology-based learning media and its support for children in the community center location of Remote Indigenous Communities.

Coinciding with National Children's Day 2022, this educational facility has begun to be used. Facilities in the form of solar electricity, internet facilities and modern children's learning media.

In HAN 2022, 67 JKN KIS cards were also distributed to children in Asatat Village. In addition to providing 300 packages of nutritional assistance and children's needs for toddlers, school-age children and adolescents as well as school uniform packages for 160 elementary school children in At Village and Atat Village, Tiga Island District, Asmat Regency.

Learning Is Fun

Children's curiosity about the world is the beginning of education given at an early age. During the child's growth and development, the brain also increases the capacity to capture various information which will then become the foundation of the way of thinking and outlook in life.

Social campaigns in the form of planting a clean and healthy life through bathing and washing hands with soap are given to children and their mothers. Playing while learning with traditional games Or-Dor (me-you), Finger Catch, and playing ball make children happy, they get a new experience in learning. It showed that learning can not only done in the classroom.

Timotius Daso, a grade 1 child at SD Santo Petrus Village, As-Atat, felt his enthusiasm for learning increase during the HAN activities in his village. New experiences, fun ways of learning, as well as interactive and modern media that have been prepared have made the attendance of first graders from 31 children on July 27 to 57 children on July 30. All students want to feel a new experience in learning is fun.