The Posyandu in Mentaya Seberang village is filled with activity from diverse programmes and an influx of visitors, a stark difference from the situation a year ago, before an intervention from KMP.
Posyandu, or pos pelayanan terpadu (integrated service post), is a community-based activity for health services in Indonesia. The Posyandu Harapan Ibu in Mentaya Seberang village, was filled with activity on the day a team from Katingan Mentaya Project visited. Compared to a year ago, the difference is stark. “A year ago, pregnant women and mothers of toddlers would not come to our Posyandu, so we had to visit their houses instead,” Yanti, one of the cadres at the Posyandu, stated, “Not many people came as we didn’t offer a lot of programmes and we didn’t have a lot of fund to organize healthy meal plan for toddlers”. But everything has since turned for the better.
Since 2017, Katingan Mentaya Project has worked with 5 Posyandus from within and around the concession area to decrease the death rate of children and mothers while increasing the community’s awareness for basic healthcare. Together with Katingan Mentaya Project, cadres of Posyandu Harapan Ibu learnt to establish new, creative, and diverse programmes for the local communities, including providing a healthy meal plan for mothers and toddlers while being supported financially by Katingan Mentaya Project. Cadres were also given the chance to hold a comparative study in Java where they learnt a set of new projects to help increase the comfort and trust of the community. The cadres have successfully implemented a new system, used previously before in Java, where they use a mark to identify the houses’ of expecting mothers and a different, more specialised marks, for high risk pregnancies.
Now that more people visit the Posyandu, the cadres have easier time in socialising the importance of regular check-ups during pregnancy, in order to raise awarseness to local pregnant women and mothers of the antenatal care that is provided at the Posyandu.
Together with Katingan Mentaya Project, the cadres of Mentaya Seberang Posyandu have increased the participation of local community, to better improve local health measures and, as the end goal, achieve welfare.
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