OMEGA 3 4th INTERVENTION

SCOPH CIMSA UI

OMEGA 3, an abbreviation for “Ayo Menyudahi Kekurangan Nutrisi pada Balita”, is a community development held by SCOPH CIMSA UI. The goal of this year's program is to raise awareness on the first 1000 days of life, child nutrition, and stunting. We had held our fourth intervention on Saturday, April 24th 2021 via an online platform messenger, WhatsApp. On our fourth intervention, we educate our community, mothers in Kampung Lio Depok about immunization. We brought up this topic because immunization is an important factor for children’s health.

Since the fourth intervention was coincident with the Ramadhan month, our education session started at 3 pm to accompany the mothers during the afternoon before breaking the fast. Then, we sent some posters which contained educational materials of immunization. From the posters, we could learn about the definition of immunization and vaccine, why immunization is so important for children, hoax busters about immunization, and immunization schedules in Indonesia.

The mothers were really enthusiastic and curious about the topic. They also shared their experiences in getting immunization for the children and how they clarified some miss-understandings about vaccines to the other mothers. We kept this good atmosphere by playing games and quizzes about immunization. These quizzes ensure how well the mothers understand about the immunization topic.

We finished the intervention around 4 pm by giving prizes to the mothers who answered the quizzes correctly. We hope that OMEGA 3’s fourth intervention successfully educated and increased awareness about children's health, especially through immunization, in Kampung Lio.