MUHAMMADIYAH.OR.ID, YOGYAKARTA – The Central Board of ‘Aisyiyah enticed all elements to show their sense of humanity and togetherness to confront the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the pandemic existed in Indonesia, ‘Aisyiyah has undertaken breakthroughs to reduce virus transmissions and its impacts. One of the efforts is through Gerakan ‘Aisyiyah Sehat (GRASS/a program of Healthy ‘Aisyiyah Movement).

“The program focuses on red zones in Indonesia such as Palembang, Jakarta, Bogor, and Bekasi. It encompasses making guidelines of COVID-19 transmission prevention, mask distribution, hand sanitizer distribution, and food security,” mentioned Majlis of Health of the Central Board of ‘Aisyiyah Chairunnisa in an online discussion with the Muhammadiyah COVID-19 Command Center (MCCC) on COVID-19 Management Models and Community Resilience Mitigation Efforts on Friday (18/09).

Chairunnisa, further, explained that ‘Aisyiyah has distributed vegetable seeds to 600 households from July to September. It is expected that people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will have food supply.

To achieve the food security, ‘Aisyiyah conducted training in vegetable cultivation using hydroponic and aquaponic methods for its cadres so that they could immediately tell society how to plant the seeds.

“We gave them a guidebook for cultivation and COVID-19 prevention, and also provided Personal Protective Equipment (PEE) to save them from the COVID-19 spread. We also let them know that we entirely support them so that they will be more motivated to do this humanitarian call,” stated Chairunnisa.

The ‘Aisyiyah cadres regularly monitor growth of the seeds. Each cadre supervises 5-15 households. The program essentially aims at educating the people so that they can always be ready to face risks and conditions.

“Our cadres successfully made the people vegetable plant shelves in narrow land,” told Chairunnisa.

Besides, the people also learned how to sow to avoid failure in this planting method.