Participating in dealing with Covid-19, SB-IPB students conducted a Fundraising

The outbreak of the CoronaVirus (Covid-19) in Indonesia, including in Bogor, is increasingly worrying. The policy of working, studying and even praying from home limits the movement of citizens in order to break the chain of spreading Covid-19. However, there are still many residents who are active outside the home, for economic reasons if they just stay at home. Especially for the middle to lower. This also provoked reactions from many parties, one of which was a graduate student at the Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) (E67), Ria Rusty Yulita.

The woman who is also the owner of Bakso Pakde Jangkung, Orange Resto from Labuan Seafood, took the initiative to raise funds to face the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak, starting from her anxiety when she saw people busy donating to the Hospital (RS), but the lower class people were forced to ignore the policy Stay at Home, and having to find daily money, are even forgotten.

His party conducted fundraising for one week, starting Friday (28/3) to Saturday (4/4). Distribution of aid is expected to be carried out on April 6. The target community who will be given assistance is the underprivileged people who are forced to not be able to follow the government’s advice to stay at home, because of the necessities of life in the City and Regency of Bogor or people who have the term “if you don’t go out, don’t eat”. Rusty thought that if there was logistical assistance, the community could stay at home.

Later, the form of assistance that will be provided to the community is in the form of a Logistics Package with a value per package of approximately Rp. 100,000. Which contains five liters of rice, ten packs of instant noodles to one liter of cooking oil. His team distributed the distribution directly to street vendors (PKL), scavengers or online motorcycle taxis on the road while still encouraging them to stay at home.

For fund accountability, his party always updates the total balance every day as a result of the contributions of various participating parties through the story feature on their Instagram account, @rusty_frog. And include a receipt for purchasing aid materials that will also be displayed on the Instagram Story. “It’s not about how much we donate, but your concern for us, our brothers and this country. So Stay Home, but we can Keep Help, “said Rusty. 

Source Doc: Metropolitan