Photo: The FEW mobilizer team handed out yields from the fishery in Asiki (Sub)village on Friday (4/14)
ASIKI – Boven Digoel’s First Lady Veronika Yaluwo and Family Empowerment and Welfare (FEW) mobilizer team dropped by the pilot cropland and fishery in Asiki (Sub)village, Jair District, Boven Digoel Regency on Friday (4/14). The women were joined by Papua Province’s FEW mobilizer team secretary, Belinda Rumansara.
The purpose of this visit was to hold the first harvest of the fish pond – a product of collaboration between PT Korindo Abadi (PT KA) and PT Tunas Sawa Erma (TSE) Group – with TSE Group PR officers, Asiki hamlet chiefs, and the local FEW group.
The community farm’s yields included crops and fish expected to improve community nutrition and most importantly lower stunting numbers, which is one of the mobilizer team’s leading programs.
Expert staff for the Boven Digoel regent, Maria Kabandum, MS., praised the fish quality. “It [the harvest] is splendid, a manifestation of the mobilizer team’s vision and mission to utilize house yards that now allow households to fulfil their own [food] needs,”
Yaluwo, who is also the leader of Boven Digoel’s mobilizer team, shared the fish and cropped vegetables with Asiki’s Dasawisma community (a smaller group of FEW members, consisting of mothers from 10 households).
Photo: The mobilizer and TSE teams took a group photo
“I want to appreciate the [mobilizer] team for its performance and working with the company, which has demonstrated a capability to leverage house yards for meeting community needs. And it [the team] did not forget our focus of reducing stunting levels,” said Rumansara.
Meanwhile, Public Relations General Manager Park Jibae explained how this collaboration is a form of company support towards Boven Digoel’s mobilizer team in its effort to improve shared prosperity and curb stunting growth. (Liska/AsikiFM)
