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Realizing Food Security, Beneficiaries at the "Ciungwanara" Disability Center Harvesting Sweet Potatoes
BOGOR (February 1, 2021) - In order to create strong and independent Persons with Disabilities and support the Government Program to maintain Food Security Stability during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs through the Ciungwanara Disability Center in Bogor utilizes an area of 50m² to plant various types of consumption crops such as sweet potatoes, peanuts, and kale since 2020.
The Head of the Ciungwanara Disability Center, Siti Sari Rumayanti, started the activity of harvesting sweet potatoes which had entered the harvest period, followed by the beneficiaries (PM) and companions.
Furthermore, Sari instructed all staff to assist PM in utilizing the existing land to plant productive crops as a form of Psychosocial Therapy and Entrepreneurship to PMs which is a form of implementation of the ATENSI Program.
"In the future, other lands can be planted with productive crops. Farming is very good as a form of psychosocial therapy for PMs, the harvest can also be sold by PMs as entrepreneurship training for them," said Sari excitedly.
One of the PM's initials "J" also expressed his joy after harvesting sweet potatoes.
"I'm happy, ma'am, the sweet potato is big and lots of it, to eat," he said later.
The sweet potato harvest as much as 20 Kg is then washed by PM and offered to the surrounding community and employees of the Ciungwanara Disability Center.