Sarihusada and Pos Keadilan Peduli Umat (PKPU): Nutrition Improvement and Community-based Health Program in Kampung Badran, Yogyakarta
The nutrition and health program was implemented at Kampung Badran, Jetis District, Yogyakarta, and had three pillars program, namely (1) improving child nutritional quality, (2) revitalizing the Early Childhood Education (ECD/PAUD) institute, and (3) empowering women’s economy. Kampung Badran was chosen to become the target area because there were many children under five in the community who suffered from malnutrition (malnourished and under-nourished). Mothers and children under five in Kampung Badran were the beneficiaries of this program.
Sarihusada and PKPU started their partnership in 2009 and conducted a community empowerment program in Badran area, Jetis, Yogyakarta. Until 2014, the partnership had educated more than a thousand of group members, revitalized PAUD activities from once a month to three times a week, helped build PAUD facility, increased knowledge and skills of teachers and managers of PAUD, developed lesson manual and made the PAUD as one of the pilot project in Yogyakarta.
In addition, the program had increased the awareness of mothers about balanced nutrition and thus lower the children malnutrition problem. Before the program came to an end, Sarihusada had built a community center called Rumah Srikandi program as the part of the post-program sustainability.
The partnership between both organizations from 2009 to 2014 was based on the shared vision to improve the community’s quality of life through improvement nutrition and health quality; and improve the quality of PAUD quality; and increase the economic quality.
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