Cargill, Habitat Staff and Volunteers Join Village Recovery Team in Yogyakarta
Cargill, Habitat Staff and Volunteers Join Village Recovery Team in Yogyakarta
First Task: Clean Up
Cargill, Habitat Staff and Volunteers Join Village Recovery Team in Yogyakarta
YOGYAKARTA---On Saturday, June 3rd, one week after an earthquake ripped through Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces of Indonesia, Habitat for Humanity staff and volunteers worked alongside villagers in Kelegen, Bantul regency, to salvage building materials from the piles of rubble that had been their homes. They cleared the debris from house foundations and made piles of bricks, timbers and clay roof tiles, which were sometimes intact when a roof structure hadn’t completely collapsed.
Said Jusuf Arbianto, retired banker and chairman of the HFH Indonesia national board, “These villagers have lost so much, and they don’t yet know how they will go on. We want to help them and to show that someone cares.” Donning hard hat and gloves, Jusuf joined a line of volunteers and villagers passing chunks of concrete hand to hand.
Among the volunteers doing manual labor were HFH office staff from Jakarta and Yogyakarta and others with skills in engineering, architecture, community organizing and construction management. When the community is ready to rebuild, they will be ready to contribute their professional expertise to the tasks of community mapping, planning and coordination.
Volunteers from Cargill’s animal nutrition division in Jakarta came to lend a hand and donated tools and a generator.
Cargill’s partners have received first immediate needs such as family kits, food, which handling over by Chairman of Habitat for Humanity Indonesia Jusuf Arbianto.
The community is also participated hand-in-hand (gotong royong) together with the volunteers in doing debris clearing.
Volunteers from Cargill donated tools and services to Habitat for Humanity to help residents of Kelegen clean up earthquake damage. (Left to right) Cargill-sponsored volunteers Hadiwinoto and Tavip present tools to Henry Feriadi, board chair of HFH Yogyakarta; Jusuf Arbianto, board chair of HFH Indonesia; and Antonius Tanan, vice chair of the national Habitat organization.
