Youth Spirit to Know Sumba

and Share Talents

Exploring Sumba Program 2015

Unique and impressive experiences got by participants of Exploring Sumba in 2014 trigger enthusiasm of students and activists of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta to be candidates for the next Exploring Sumba program. Regional and its weather differences, the diversity of customs and traditions, unique cultures and society, the beauty of its beaches and nature become an interesting story and immortal memory of each participant.

Exploring Sumba program is a program of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta which sends students and activists to Sumba. Students sent to Sumba for a month will share their knowledge and skills to students and young people there.

In the beginning of 2015, Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta sent two students, namely Petrus Maure and Elisabet Novia Listiawati. Petrus Maure, a young man from Alor, is currently waiting for his graduation day in STMIK AMIKOM. Bung Pet, familiarly  he was called, is also actively involved in campus organisation through IKNA (Association of Christian Students in Amikom). Bung Pet has several times joined Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta trainings such as agriculture and food diversity, public speaking and social studies and several group discussions. As a student studying informatics techniques, he wanted to develop his skills and share it to students in Sumba. In this program, he wants to share his computer knowledge to design and create documentation pictures of Sumba area. He hopes it will be useful for others, especially people in his surrounding.

Next, Elizabet Novia Listiawati, commonly called Elis, is a young woman from Karanganyar, Central Java. She is currently waiting for her graduation day in Mercu Buana University, Yogyakarta. She studied in Department of Agrotechnology. Her spirit of devotion and service has emerged since she started her study in UMBY Agrotechnology Student Association and was much invloved in Christian Students Activity Unit in UMBY. Some programs for communities have been conducted and gave good results. As an activist of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta, Elis has attended several trainings, such as Creative Business, Bamboo, Renewable Energy, Global Education and Food Diversity.

"My motivation to join Exploring Sumba is applying my knowledge gained during my study, sharing with others in one hope that it will be useful and beneficial for the future", she said.

Finally, with this program, she hopes to find new experiences with students and the community of Sumbanese, to learn directly the agriculture condition in Sumba and to do something in line with the program planning she has made, that is, optimalizing house yard by planting medicinal crop, based on sustainable agriculture in East Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara.

Have nice services and keep the spirit, friends! (TRU)