The recent activity in the multiplication of Stube HEMAT in Alor collaborated with the youth of Delaki village youth group and KBPM students of Tribuana University. The support from the church and village heads made the activity run smoothly and successfully. Before we started, we had made communication and mapped out the potencies in Delaki village.
Based on the mapping of natural resource potencies, there are several flagship products, such as candlenuts, cashew, black rice, marine fish, and a beach tourism spot with its long and wide shorelines and being a place for turtles to lay their eggs. Meanwhile, the human resources of the village still need to be developed because the undergraduates prefer to find a decent living in a city. In addition, the community's survival ability still relies on traditional ways to survive by gardening and being fishermen.
To get connected with young friends who have the potency and influence for developmental change in Delaki Village, we connected Deriko Wabang, the head of Karang Taruna, who works as a teacher. Besides Deriko, there is Bernad Liwang, a member of the Youth Organization, whose daily activity is the coordinator of the Reading House. In the previous mapping, we held workshops for processing candlenut oil as local potency.
This time, the event discussed a theme on ‘Village Sustainability and Sovereignty with Food Products (4-5/8/2022). We held a workshop for processing cashew fruit into wine by Farida Lamma Koly, a chemistry lecturer and practitioner of local material processing. Optimizing time between activities, the participants were trained how to process coconuts into pure oil (VCO) and cooking oil.
The activity was opened by the Village Head Imanuel Edison Jalla, who said, “The village official fully supports all forms of creative work that support the village government's development work program, especially community empowerment and the creative economy. As a form of seriousness, the government will budget in the village program for all forms of processing local products that have been done so far, namely candlenut oil and cashew wine.”
As the person in charge and implementer of this activity, the Chairman of the Youth Organization, Samuel Deriko Wabang, also sincerely hopes that all parties can support each other and work together to cultivate all the potencies in the village. Another hope was conveyed by Pastor Ka'a Listiani Mauresi, S.Th who was very enthusiastic in participating the training, so that the knowledge could be utilized and developed and become a source of income for the congregation.
As a
joint commitment, we will continue to work on cashew wine products that can
support the economy in Delaki by increasing the selling value of cashew nuts
and opening up new job opportunities. Another hope is that the product can
stimulate other creative work, such as coconut oil, black rice, processed sea
fish, etc by using technological developments and maximizing the budget for
village empowerment. ***
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