Hot mics and dust does not fight step a group of women in Gedebage District, Bandung City, West Java, to share nutritious foods. Those who unite in Balita Food Object (Omaba) have special targets, namely bad nutritional toddlers.
Omaba poultry, Vita Fatimah, revealed, Omaba focus on the administration of nourishing staple food, not on the division of formula milk and biscuits. When the first time Omaba was formed in 2012, the stunting case in the Gedebage District, Bandung City, is a remarkable event. At that time there are 29 cases of bad nutrition toddlers and even there are also cases of infant death.
The current Vita serves as the Chairman of the Cisaranten Kidul Village PKK, said, stunting is difficult to overcome because people are less capable of being given milk formula for his child, it turns out that many choose to resell the milk.
A volunteer is preparing for cooking in the Omaba Kitchen.
The number of menus contained in the Omaba Kitchen.
After Omaba operates, the team consisting of PKK mothers, Posyandu, and the Taklim Majlis began cooking his own nourishing food. Food cooked in the Omaba kitchen will be distributed with motors to homes less capable of having bad nutritional toddlers.
The program will last for 90 days for each target toddler. The growth of the toddler will be monitored regularly. Omaba’s operational fund is obtained from the government, Rp10 thousand for each toddler. Although the government has no longer provided a two-year funding due to the pandemi, but they managed to collect operational funds in awadaya. Home
Omaba has won the Swasti Saba Wiwerda Award from the Ministry of Health in 2018 and many other awards. Omaba is expected to be applied throughout Indonesia because this program is considered appropriately managed by local citizens who know the fact of the region and the state in the field.
The health of cooking the Omaba volunteer.
Volunteers prepare food for toddler recipients.
Vita encourages local governments and centers to provide express instructions to stunting handling can reach all under-class communities. For Omaba, stunting requires real action, not only solely.
Photo and text Raisan Al Farisi
Author : Fanny Octavianus
The volunteers bring food storage boxes in the Omaba Kitchen.
Volunteers prepare vehicles to deliver food.
Food delivery towards beneficiary residence.
Vita Fatimah (left) along the volunteers instilled rice fields to give food to to toddlers.
Vita Fatimah (left) gives food to to toddler.
Balita receives nutritious food from the Omaba volunteer.
