Cadres often identified
with volunteers who work without
pay or without receiving remuneration from
anyone. They work by doing
all the things that has to do with health problems
and equipped with
the knowledge needed for their
work in accordance with standard operating procedures.
But there is something different
with this one cadre
named Elisabeth Wanimbo – 54
years old. It has been about 14 years
he served as a
cadre in the village in the district Pirime Lanny
Jaya - Papua.
She once was attended the school so that she
could write. She
has not been provided
with any knowledge even related
to health. She used to do the
activities to help
Posyandu even mothers who want
to give birth. Only bold and equipped with little
experience that she often saw the midwife doing the job,
makes her passion to do so and the result
was helping a lot of mothers, and their
babies all survived.
When we invited
her to participate in IMD (Early Breastfeeding Initiation)
training, she was happy to come. When the activity takes place, she was given the opportunity by the facilitator to
demonstrate how to help people during delivery ala cadre. Elisabeth
directly shows the
action in front of the
participants by way of squatting
and using her friend as a patient. With the squat
position would make
the other participants to ask, how to implement the IMD?
"Later, after
the kid out, we put the child in a
place that we already prepared. Later, we ask the mother to be in sleeping
position so that the kid can be placed on the mother",
answered this mother of 3 children.
Apparently according to the
facilitator that was one right
answer if we have to help people give
birth by squatting. How fun to see what was done by Elisabeth. Under limited conditions it turns out she
has a lot of knowledge to be distributed to other cadres. Let us hope
that in the future there will be
other cadres like
Elisabeth.
Story by Sonya Tadoe, Rewritten by Willy Sitompul
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