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"Soeharso" Center Distributes Ready-to-eat Food, Helping Self Isolation Residents Affected by Covid-19
SURAKARTA (July 16, 2021) —The Ministry of Social
Affairs through the Soeharso Surakarta Center distributes ready-to-eat food
assistance to people who are self-isolating due to exposure to Covid-19 and
funeral workers in Surakarta City.
A total of 150 boxes of
ready-to-eat food were distributed, with details of 100 boxes of ready-to-eat
food for residents who are carrying out self-isolation (isoman) in Jebres
Village and 50 boxes of ready-to-eat food for funeral staff.
The processed
ready-to-eat food ingredients come from the harvest of horticultural and
hydroponic crops such as bitter melon, tomatoes, chilies, cucumbers, long beans
and mustard greens cultivated by the beneficiaries of Soeharso Center which
were donated to the Center’s public kitchen.
The ready-to-eat food
assistance was handed over by the Sub-Coordinator of the Advocacy Section of
the Soeharso Center, Suyono Yusuf, to the Jebres sub-district, which was
received directly by the Jebres Village Head, Hanang Setiawan Wahyudi. After
that, there was a symbolic handover from door to door to 4 residents who were
self-isolating.
Putut (45 years), one of
the residents who were self-isolating, thanked the Soeharso Center for caring
for residents who were undergoing isoman.
"During the isoman,
we were only in the house and for groceries assisted by "jogo tonggo"
who took turns giving us necessities," said Tutuko, a resident of
Jebres Village who is undergoing isoman.