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YEU Response to Sinabung Erruption
Rabu, 1 September 2010, 10:18 WIB
On Sunday, 29 August 2010; Mount Sinabung in Karo district, North Sumatra erupted and forced more than 27.000 people to flee from their houses.
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HAP Workshop, Hotel Harun Square, Lhokseumawe, 22 - 25 May 2010
Sabtu, 22 Mei 2010, 08:00 WIB
HAP (Humanitarian Accountability Partnership) Workshop, attended by 23 staffs from YEU Lhokseumawe, YEU Padang, and YEU Yogyakarta and facilitated by Janaki Kuhanendran (Christian Aid), introduces humanitarian accountability system to YEU's staffs to meet capacity and accountability standardization.
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Yadi, Seeds of Hope
Kamis, 19 Februari 2009, 09:30 WIB Viewed : 609 times
Losing 15 family members at a glance because of the tsunami doesn’t stop Mr. Yadi to continue his life. Grief and pain still can be felt every time he pay visit to their graves. “When we pay visit to the graves, the grief is always there,” he said in one afternoon. But he always does that annually to remember the families who passed away.
“I am grateful for now I have a new family,” he said while watching over his son, who is running around the yard, playing hide and seek in his father farm cart. The farm cart was used to carry fertilizer to his field; a three hectares land stretch planted with ridged gourd and eggplants. He is a successful farmer now; he had harvested the result of his hard works.
Before the tsunami he was also quite a successful farmer, but he lost everything that Boxing Day morning of 2004. “I thought I am the only person that survived,” referring to his experience of seeing almost every one he knew being lost in the mix of mud and sea water. Like any other west coast village in Aceh, Lueng Manee had lost most of its inhabitants by the tsunami, more than 100 people died that day.
After the tsunami, Mr. Yadi was brought to know YEU from his fellow farmer, and soon he was involved in one of the farmer group and started his farm from scratch. He also practice organic farming method and end up believing that every farmer should practice it. “We are slowly persuading other farmers to use organic farming.” When asked why; he promptly explained the benefit for health and how it saves a lot of money because its use of organic fertilizers that were easy to made and obtain locally. He also explained about how it can save the natural resources of the land, which in turn decrease the possibility of harvest failure; a very frightening disaster for farmers like him. “(The vegetables) are more resilient,” he concluded.
As his harvested vegetables, he is resilient as well. He had been able to move on from grief-stricken person to someone who is now happy and contented with his life. He’s now not only a common farmer; he is also the chairperson of a farmers’ cooperative and known for his specialty in creating organic and good, qualified seeds.
He then also spreading the seeds of hope; by also involved in his village disaster task force. Active in discussions and village planning, in the efforts of reducing the loss the village and him self had experience in the past. Not only because the tsunami, but also of other disasters, such as flooding and harvest failure; the most visible disaster for him and his fellow farmers.
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