The Indonesia Building Inspiration Foundation (YIIM) together with PT Pertamina Training and Consulting are always committed to supporting strengthening community independence through a series of inclusive and sustainable empowerment initiatives.

As one of the concrete steps in supporting the implementation of sustainable development goals in the category of handling climate change and economic growth, PT Pertamina Training and Consulting (PTC) and the Indonesian Building Inspiration Foundation (YIIM) held hydroponic training for the people of the Jabodetabek area with economic criteria affected by COVID-19, groups of housewives, people with disabilities who don’t have a job, those who have dropped out of work, former prison residents, young people who have dropped out of school, and underprivileged families.

Through a social and environmental responsibility scheme, PT Pertamina Training and Consulting partners with the Indonesian Building Inspiration Foundation (YIIM) to empower communities to train people to achieve family economic independence through entrepreneurship.

“Hydroponics training was chosen as one of the social entrepreneurship trainings as an implementation of using small areas of land as urban agriculture and as an effort to reduce household and environmental carbon emissions,” said Assistant Manager for Corporate Communication & CSR of PT Pertamina Training and Consulting, Olivia Steffinda Lasut in a written statement, Thursday, October 14 2021.

Hydroponic training began on 27 August 2021 online for two days and continued with a monitoring program with a total of 17 participants selected through a series of selection processes.

“Online hydroponics participants receive planting media equipment as a form of direct practice and are monitored continuously until harvest time. The hydroponic plants sown are mustard seeds, lettuce, kale and spinach,” he said.

As the culminating event and closing of a series of hydroponic training, on Wednesday, October 13, a harvest of hydroponic vegetables was held for the training participants, which was centered at the Humanitarian Power Studio, Duren Sawit, which houses underprivileged communities.

This activity was also accompanied by training in cooking healthy chicken noodles with preservative-free hydroponic vegetables by representatives of hydroponic training participants guided by Sri Wahyuni ​​as chicken noodle culinary mentor and continued with evaluation of hydroponic training by Ir. Dwi Astuti Setyaningrum as training facilitator during mentoring activities.

Through this synergy and initiative, the Indonesian Inspiration for Building Foundation (YIIM) hopes that the programs implemented can provide real benefits, open up wider opportunities for independence for participants, and actively contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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