IPB Diploma Students Organized the Less Garbage Village Competition

A group of students on Student Executive Board of the Directorate of Diploma Program of Bogor Agricultural University (BEM DPD IPB) planned to organize a show "Care Village". The event which will held in September 2017 and will involve 125 students. The “Go to Field” movement is the continuation of “IPB Bina Desa” Program. The venue of the program will be  RW 04 of Cadas Ngampar village, District Sukaraja, Bogor Regency. The communities of the  village, especially children, will be invited to participated the event. Three types of competitions will be planned, namely the garbage decoration contest, the garbage picking contest and the cleanest Rukun Tetangga (RT) contest. Each winner of the contest will get prizes. The Community of Rukun Warga (RW) 04 will be divided into five groups based on the number of RTs. One IPB student will  accompany each RT group.

The idea to organize such competition was motivated  by the experience of students who visited the village and found such that the village  has fewer or even less garbage cans. IPB students expect that the idea will nurture the communities to live in clean environment,  especially children to throw thrash in the garbage cans.

"The group expect that the event will cultivate the community's awareness of the environment, increase students' social sensitivity to the environment and their immediate communities as the outputs. Finally, the event will also maintain good relationship between students and the communities around the campus," said Fadel Muhammad Azhari, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of 'Care Village'.