"Thank you, my house can be 'like' before again"
DDHK News, Indonesia –Ana (16), this 3rd grade junior high school student can finally see that his house is fit to be occupied again. "Well, I thank you very much. My house can be like it used to be, "he said.
Previously, Ana's roof tiles and glass were destroyed. The walls of the house that Ana and her grandmother live in are porous and dirty.
Since the status of Mount Kelud changed to Alert level from Awas last Thursday (20/2), a number of residents of Sukomoro Hamlet, Puncu District, Kediri Regency began to return home.
In line with Ana, Sutini (73), a grandmother from Sukomoro Hamlet, admitted that she is very grateful for the help of workers to clean and repair her damaged house. "For food and clothing at this time it is sufficient, but what we need now is energy for houses damaged by ash and gravel," he said.
Housekeeping carried out by the DMC team Dompet Dhuafa thought to help the residents of Sukomoro Hamlet. Yes, now they are facing a period of recovery.
The majority of their houses suffered severe damage due to the eruption and lava floods of the Kelud rain. Seeing these conditions, the Disaster Management Center (DMC) team Dompet Dhuafa Since Sunday, (23/2), several residents have continued to help fix houses.
"Currently there are 2 houses in the repair stage, namely those of Sugianto (38) and Mbah Tukiyem (70). The repair of their houses has entered the process of installing walls and painting asbestos, ”explained Adi, the DMC team Dompet Dhuafa who are at the location.
Adi said that houses that were badly damaged would be handled first. Within a week, the team targeted as many as 4 houses that were badly damaged to be handled.
Regarding building materials, the team used materials from home that can still be used. While the shortcomings, such as wood, asbestos, kalsiboard, bricks, cement, sand, and nails are prepared Dompet Dhuafa.
For further plans, the DMC team Dompet Dhuafa will carry out even distribution of repairs to the houses of residents who have been severely damaged which can be helped as a whole, especially those houses that have not been assisted by the local government and other non-governmental organizations.
Based on data from the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), the number of damaged houses was recorded as many as 8.452 houses scattered in Kediri, Blitar and Malang Regencies. Of these, 4.325 houses (not yet classified as severely damaged, moderately damaged, slightly damaged). The estimated cost is based on the assumptions of the Social Rehabilitation Program for Unfit for Living Houses (RS-RTLH) of Rp. 6 million per house, so a temporary fee of Rp. 25,95 billion is needed.
Capital assistance and agricultural repair
The conditions after the disaster and assistance during the emergency phase are no less severe, to restore the economy of the disaster-affected communities. Generally, all sides of community life, from the social and economic side, are paralyzed after a disaster.
Therefore, apart from housing, the recovery program which is no less important is in the economic sector. Realizing this, Dompet Dhuafa preparing to roll out the post-Kelud eruption economic program. As entry point post-disaster community empowerment, Dompet Dhuafa using a cluster approach.
Meanwhile, the Independent Cluster is an initiated model Dompet Dhuafa is a translation of the concept of integrated community empowerment (integrated community empowerment). This strategy is a medium-sized work plan that combines cluster mapping, capacity assistance, program implementation, and program monitoring and evaluation.
This model works to build a work system that appreciates local wisdom (aware of local resources), entrepreneurial capacity, and facilitates access to economic improvement based on life wisdom.
The plan is that capital assistance through the Social Trust Fund (STF) for micro and small entrepreneurs whose businesses are damaged by the disaster is one form of this program. As a model of "dhuafa bank", STF makes it easy for micro entrepreneurs to rise again from the trap of loan sharks and middlemen.
Dompet Dhuafa also focus on residents whose agricultural land is damaged. Dompet Dhuafa plans to facilitate working capital financing as well as build a community vegetable market. This is because the livelihoods of some of the people there are horticultural farmers.
"As in Magelang, it is close to the eruption village of Merapi. The market was originally non-permanent and surprised as a place to transact their crops with buyers or collectors, "explained Tektano Grandyanto Dwi Satrio, General Manager of Economic Development. Dompet Dhuafa.
Satrio added, another potential that could be raised is the business of making bricks from erupted sand material. Later, these blocks can be sold to infrastructure development projects damaged by the Kelud eruption.
"Temporary information from the team that is doing the mapping in Ngantang, Malang can roll out the STF and livestock program. Meanwhile in Puncu, Kediri is more suitable for the program recovery agriculture, "said Satrio.
From the very beginning, presence Dompet Dhuafa it never ends even though the threat of natural disasters has decreased, including disasters in Sinabung, Jabodetabek, Pantura, Kelud to Manado. 'Empowerment' has become a Management strategy Dompet Dhuafa who continue to endeavor at the grassroots to fill the space that had been missed. (Dompetdhuafa.org). *
