Rismaharini encouraged the children to be creative and innovative in order to boost the added value of products displayed at the creative center.
"Hence, you are here not only to create art just for the sake of it, but (you must think) how can these works have added value, so that they have a higher selling value," the minister noted in a statement received here on Friday.
While observing the welding skills workshop, the minister guided the children to make iron for flower pots in a more neat and precise manner. According to Rismaharini, the higher the quality, the more it is likely to be noticed by people from the middle to higher socio-economic status or class.
Akin to other creative centers, the Paramita ATENSI Creative Center is a center for entrepreneurship and vocational development. It also functions as a platform to promote the work of beneficiaries in one area. This center will also be a place to nurture and foster new, potential independent entrepreneurial businesses in Mataram and the adjoining areas.
At the creative center, there are outlets open to visitors, such as Parama Coffee, laundry, grocery stores, and handicraft centers. There is also the Reading Corner managed in collaboration with the National Library.
There are also workshops serving as training and therapy places for beneficiaries. Those workshops are for oyster mushroom cultivation, fish farming, Klanceng bee cultivation, production welding skills, carpentry, and beauty skills, among others.
The minister has provided Social Rehabilitation Assistance (ATENSI) support, worth Rp826,622,700 (almost US$59 thousand), allocated for some 462 beneficiaries comprising orphans, people with disabilities, and the elderly in Mataram City, Central Lombok District, North Lombok District, and West Lombok District.
Assistance in the form of accessibility support, savings for orphans, basic needs, and nutrition, are also part of the entrepreneurship assistance.
On the other hand, stimulus assistance in the form of support tools for entrepreneurship was handed over to five Beneficiary Families (KPM) of the Family Hope Program (PKH) that had graduated, with each offered Rp2.5 million.
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Translator: Devi N S R, Mecca Yumna
Editor: Sri Haryati
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