Policy Brief on health care for people affected by leprosy
15 October 2021. PerMaTa South Sulawesi and YDTI hosted a two-day workshop in Makassar to discuss the precarious situation of persons affected by leprosy needing advanced wound care and reaction treatment, assistive devices and reconstructive surgery. The current national health insurance system (JKN / BPJS) no longer provides for the care that persons affected by […]
Capacity building Sipakatau team – VOICE 2021-23
9 September 2021. We conducted our second capacity building workshop as part of the new empowerment project for young people affected by leprosy that is taking pleace 2021-23 with the support from VOICE Indonesia. The participants were the “Sipakatau” team from PerMaTa Gowa, who had run the first VOICE empowerment project from 2017 to 2020. […]
Advocacy visit to North Toraja and Bone
1 September 2021. The management team from PerMaTa Sulsel / YDTI and the team from PerMaTa Gowa visited North Toraja district to advocate for better rehabilitation services for people affected by leprosy. The activity was supported by Sasakawa Health Foundation (SHF). After a 10 hour drive, we spent our first day in the Batu Leleng leprosy […]
Confidence training in Malino
15 August 2021. This activity, as part of a project supported by the Sasakawa Health Foundation (SHF), was aimed at young people from the PerMaTa Takalar and PerMaTa Sinjai branches. The members of the branches PerMaTa Gowa and Bulukumba accompanied the training as facilitators. On the first evening everyone introduced themselves and small groups were […]
TVRI shoots inspirational film about PerMaTa South Sulawesi
One of the activities as PerMaTa / YDTI is to increase media involvement to raise awareness about leprosy. TVRI, the national televison channel offered to shoot a documentary about Ibu Yuli as the head of PerMaTa South Sulawesi as part of their series of ‘inspirational films’. After the script was worked out in several meetings, […]