For four weeks I integrated the activities of the WWF/TNC (World Wide Fund for Nature/The Nature Conservancy) Program in Wakatobi Marine National Park. The assessment of the region was focused on tourism opportunities and challenges. Me and the volunteers' group participated in contacts with the local agents, with WWF’s donors on a trip to Wakatobi, and with the local communities. In collaboration with Indar Aminuddin, I worked with a group of nine Bajo women in the implementation of the PM4D workshop in Mola village. This video is the result of the four-day workshop method. The women participants are part of a group of women that previously started a handicrafts center and expressed their availability for this workshop. The project was supported by the WWF/TNC Program and the Tourism Department of Wakatobi Regency. The video was screened in the handicraft center to the rest of the community and later we heard the women’s group organized a screening themselves for more people. We expect to hear they made more videos by themselves and used it to seek funding to expand their group activities, as they said they would. They were happy to share the video widely to inspire other women’s group. Ideally it will, in due time, be shown in the other islands of Wakatobi. The translation is often poor and is a work in process. This video is the group’s first attempt to communicate their vision and – remember – PM4D it is about the workshop process rather than about the final product, so try to 'visualize' that. I’m happy to introduce to you the Bajo Women’s Group, Sikarimanang:
See below the also results from the Photo-stories with the local school students of Mola and Liya villages in Wakatobi done by four groups of first grade school students:
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