JAKARTA — the Environment Department of Dompet Dhuafa collaborated with Yayasan Rumah Literasi Hijau to initiate the Rumah Lestari program. This program was inaugurated on Wednesday (25/1/2023) at RPTRA Nyiur Melambai, Pulau Kelapa Village, North Jakarta, which is a Healthy Area assisted by Layanan Kesehatan Cuma-cuma (LKC) or Free Health Services.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by SO Culture & Environment, Siti Lutfillah; SO Health Promotion, Sifing Lestari; Chairman of Rumah Lestari Hijau Foundation, Mahariah Sandri; Sie Kesmas (Public Health Representative) Kec. Kep. Seribu Utara, Mahdi; Village Secretary, Nuralim; and Wakapolsek, Slamet. The beneficiary participants of this program were 30 families in Pulau Kelapa 1 & 2 villages spread across 5 RW. Later this number will continue to be developed into 50 beneficiary families.
The Rumah Lestari program is a forum for utilizing the remaining use at home and carrying the mission of the climate change campaign. The series of events included ecobrick workshops, workshops on making dishwash from used cooking oil, hydroponic workshops, signing of mentoring commitments, and handing over Rumah Lestari tools to beneficiaries.
In her remarks, Mahariah said that this program was an effort by Rumah Literasi Hijau and Dompet Dhuafa in completing one of the indicators of the LKC Healthy Area, namely the environment. One of the environmental issues that had strengthened was waste management.
“We want to improve the quality of the people of Pulau Kelapa from health to environmental management,” she said.
Rumah Lestari program starts from home, because the house is the main foundation of a healthy, prosperous and resilient society. Therefore, the program is aimed at strengthening at the household level. Next, what the beneficiaries will do is improving the way they see the waste that up till today has been something that should be removed and disposed of. With this program, Dompet Dhuafa seeks to change that mindset by making waste as a resource.
Resources mean something useful and not to be thrown away. There are many things that can be used from things that are seen as useless. Thus, the “garbage” diction is slowly changed to “leftovers”.
Sifing said, “Dompet Dhuafa has a mandate to realize contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), or sustainable development that maintains the continuous improvement of people’s economic welfare agreed upon by world countries. This program is a part of the development of SDGs villages.”
The mechanism of the program is that the beneficiaries receive tools to support waste settlement activities at home. They will get coaching for one year in collaboration with the health division of Dompet Dhuafa which has also actually been running for 6 months.
Sie Kesmas Kec. Kep. Seribu Utara welcomed this program well. According to him, this program was an excellent program and meant a lot to housewives. Even so, the success of this program depended on the intention of each one to continue to be consistent in running the program.
“It’s a very good program, it means a lot to housewives. The garbage we used to throw away, now we can recycle. Of course, it depends on our intention on how to continue to be consistent in running this program,” said Mahdi. (Dompet Dhuafa/Muthohar)