Proud of Papua for Papua

Proud of Papua for Papua

The Provincial Government of Papua launched a program called PROUD Papua. PROUD is an acronym for Build Generations and Prosperous Papuan Families. Broadly speaking, this program is a program of providing social assistance to Orang Asli Papua (OAP) who have children aged 0-4 years.

Each child will be given assistance in the amount of Rp.200,000 per month. The assistance is expected to be used by beneficiary parents to maintain or improve children's nutrition and improve children's access to health services.

According to Lukas Enembe, they are the golden generation of Papua. They are the future generation of Papuans who will continue the current generation. Therefore it is considered important to maintain or improve their nutrition.

In addition to those aged 0-4 years, later PROUD Papua will also target other target beneficiaries of PROUD Papua are those who are elderly or over 60 years old. They The elderly are considered to have difficulty accessing work and social assistance.

Although the main target is children aged 0-4 years, but the PRIVATE Papua is expected to improve the welfare of Papuans and alleviate poverty and eliminate malnutrition in Papua.

Bringing Papua out of the stigma of malnutrition is not easy, but with the cooperation and awareness of many parties, of course this is not impossible.