The Involvement of Foreigners in AIESEC IPB SME Social Projects
Student Activity Unit (UKM) of Association internationale des étudiants en sciences économiques et commerciales (AIESEC)/(International Association of Students in Economic and Commercial Sciences of Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB) carried out the social project "Waste Not Bogor", on 2 December 2017 – 20 January 2018. The objectives of this social project were to increase the community awareness, as well as encourage them to participate on waste management project. Participants of this project were foreign students from various countries, such as the Netherlands, India, Colombia, Vietnam, and Australia. During which the foreign participants were accompanied by local volunteers.
"In order to achieve the goal, the "Waste Not Bogor" project was divided into several phases, namely to inspire, educate, impact. The inspire phase provides an opportunity for participants to meet and recognize leaders and communities who will provide new and deeper insight into waste management. In this phase we cooperated with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia; Department of Economics of Resources and Environment of the Faculty of Economics and Management of Bogor Agricultural Institute (FEM IPB); and Majestic Buana Group," said Christyana Henrietta, Chairman of UKM AIESEC IPB.
The next phase is to educate, where the participants learned how to manage and recycle garbage. In this phase they worked together with several communities and organizations namely WABE, Perpustakaan Sampah (Garbage Library), Clean Action and WWF.
The final or last phase was the impact, it was the time for participants to go to the field and to implem everything they learned on waste management. Activities for this final phase among other were School Roadshow and visited villages which were coached by them such as Mulyaharja Village, District Bogor Selatan. While they were in the pilot village, participants were given opportunity to practice any methods to solve the problem for waste management in the village. School Roadshow was held in four schools, namely SD Katulampa 2, PAUD Citra Bangsa Sejahtera, SD and SMA Bina Insani, and SD Pertiwi.
In addition to various activities on waste management, the foreign participants were given opportunities to learn the traditional culture of Indonesia, and especially Bogor, “A Day Program in Bogor”, consisted of Global Village and Batik Learning with Batik Bogor Tradisiku. "Participants were very satisfied with the social project because they learned more on waste management and enabled them to execute the methods directly," Christyana said. (Wied)
