The Youngsters Doing Actions in Sumba

The Participants of Exploring Sumba Program

Yohanes Dian Alpasa, a theology student of Duta Wacana Christian University Yogyakarta from North Bengkulu was very excited when he received an information about Exploring Sumba program. He has a desire to share his knowledge and skills especially in journalism and writing. His program was conducted in April – May 2014 with a theme of 'Sharing the goodness: Remembering the Wisdom for Writing Power in Sumba'. Yohanes invited students and young people in Sumba to sprout spirit to write and present it in meaningful writings.

Novia Sih Rahayu from Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta was enthusiastic to join Exploring Sumba program. Her knowledge and skills that she got from her college Akindo, was usefull to share among students and church youth in Sumba during her visit in April – May 2014. Novia expects two things when she promoted a theme 'Creating a Sense Of Belonging And Developing Sumba Potencies Through Public Speaking’. First, she can share knowledge and skills of public speaking and video-editting technique to young Sumbanese and it may be daily applied including to advance and promote the potencies of Sumba. Second, she knows Sumba and gets a lot of friends and relatives.

Hery Alberth Gardjalay, a student of Law Faculty, Janabadra University responded a challenge in Exploring Sumba program with a work plan to share his knowledge. As a student concerning on legal formal affair, he wants to build awareness of students and church’s youth in Sumba to possess personal civil documents, such as ID card and birth certificate. With a theme 'Build Society-Awareness to Gain Welfare, through the Realization of the Citizens’ Role,' Hery hopes especially young people to understand their rights and obligations as citizens, know and understand essential role as active citizens in addressing to society problems that happen around them. His experience when interacting with people in his homeland, Dobo, Maluku, certainly is a very valuable modal to explore Sumba in June – July 2014.

Stenly Recky Bontinge, from Luwuk, Central Sulawesi was encouraged to join Exploring Sumba program with his theme 'Logistics, Logic and Heart'. He bases his concept that a strong society is an independent society when they are free from starvation. Further, head and heart means that a society will be stronger after they have capability to fulfill their food, they will have strong knowledge and commitment. The combination of knowledge and experience during studies at Environment Engineering Academy and Magister in Systems Engineering, Gadjah Mada University, and his involvement in Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta become a complete modals for Stenly to work with students and young people of Sumba in June – July 2014. He hopes that students and young people in Sumba can be more productive by utilizing their land with local plants, able to identify environmental problems, able to do advocacy and to apply environmental engineering techniques, and finally able to strengthen community management.

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