On Thursday, October 31 2024, the Indonesian Inspiration for Building Foundation (YIIM) supported by PT Insight Investments Management (INSIGHT) (Insight IM) held a social entrepreneurship training program in cooking skills for Various Contemporary Dry Snacks for underprivileged people and friends with disabilities.

Cooking skills have promising opportunities and economic potential for society, especially small communities in urban and rural areas. The Indonesian people’s high interest in food can be a promising economic prospect for creative business actors.

One of the great spirits of the YIIM Cooking Training program is providing training participants with the skills to make dishes that are easy to make and competitive in the market. Through theoretical training and direct practice (hands on) processing raw materials. Starting from choosing basic ingredients, introducing basic menu techniques, also teaching how to calculate the cost of goods sold (COGS) for each recipe, as well as discussions and questions and answers.

The training event was held at the Indonesian Building Inspiration Foundation Office located at Jalan Grand Wijaya Center Blok F/62B, RT.6/RW.1, Pulo Village, Kebayoran Baru District, South Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, which was held from 10.00 WIB to 15.30 WIB. The total number of participants who took part in the training was 14 people with backgrounds consisting of underprivileged communities and friends with disabilities (speech impaired).

The cooking training trainers are Ambar Yuliasiwi as the main trainer and Susilawati Muryani Berlian as the assistant trainer. The activity began with opening remarks from Riccana Rosita as Treasurer and representatives of the YIIM management. He said, “YIIM has been established for 10 years and one of our flagship programs is social entrepreneurship training with various skills, one of which is cooking skills. We hope that the participants can make good use of this training to gain knowledge, experience and apply it by becoming independent entrepreneurs. So far, YIIM is also supported by our partner Insight IM in organizing these programs.”

After the opening remarks, it was continued with hands-on cooking practice, the training was led by Ambar Yuliasiwi as trainer. Training participants were divided into five groups. The first session, the trainer teaches you how to make aci clamp menus and rolled mini spring rolls. The second session taught the menu of cassava sticks and sesame marie. Each menu is taught from an introduction to raw materials to processing techniques.

During the event, participants were very interactive and also asked many questions directly to the trainer team. Apart from that, participants are also given the opportunity to practice working on all training menus.

Furthermore, Debbi Maelani, one of the training participants, said, “Thank you to YIIM and Insight IM for providing cooking skills training to us.

“Hopefully this training can provide knowledge and inspiration for us so we can become more independent.” This program is also in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) number 1 about ending poverty, number 8 about decent work and economic growth, and number 10 about reducing inequality.

This program is a manifestation of YIIM and Insight IM’s commitment through the distribution of social funds that can have a positive socio-economic impact on society.

YIIM is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people from various circles, founded by social and humanitarian activists. To realize this goal, YIIM is open and open to all forms of cooperation from all groups so that it can be distributed to beneficiaries who need it.

Salam Inspirasi!