BSSC Social Act ‘Social Hero’

BSSC is an organization which operates in BINUS Square. There’s many division in BSSC including Social and Art Division. This year, BSSC held a new collaboration event between Art and Social Division which name is Social Act. The theme of this year’s event is “Social Hero”. Therefore, we decide to help RPTRA Amanah Bunda and Paskalis Clinic.

We started this event in Paskalis Clinic with the opening speech from Mr. Hendra as one of Paskalis Clinic management. After a few words from him, we finally started the main event which was painting walls and fences. With the instruction from Mr. Hendra and Mr. Yoyok, we started to paint both the walls and fences. For painting walls, the first step was wetting the wall with water and then we started to peel the wall with pulley block. After the wall was clean from the old paint, we continue to paint the wall with beige color from Mowilex company.

Not just painting the wall, we also painted the fences. The method was not too different, we started by peeling the paint of fences with sandpaper. After the fences was cleaned, we had to wipe the fences and the last step was to paint the fences with black paint that had already been mixed with tinner. Five hours finally passed, and we successfully painted the walls and fences. Then we closed the event by taking a picture together.

Even though the happiness was mixed with fatigue, but during the event we got many things like the skill and knowledge about how to paint wall and fences, and most importantly, how to cooperate and be patient with others.

Our other activity was on RPTRA Amanah Bunda is located in Tanjung Duren Street, Manggis Alley XVIII, RT.11/RW.04, West Jakarta. There’s one main problem in RPTRA Amanah Bunda, the soil always erode onto the road which makes the road dirty. Thus, we decided to help them installing the fibers to the fence so that the soil won’t erode onto the road again. We’ve sent approximately 25 people to install fiber on the front and both side of the fences.

We arrived in RPTRA on 08.30 WIB and let the participant observe the fence that they will work on. After the RPTRA’s party give the opening speech, we began to install the fibers. Not only installing fibers but we also paint dampu (a traditional Indonesian game). Installing fiber requires many steps. We had to dig the soil around 2 cm in every side of RPTRA. Then we need to adjust the size of each fiber on each fence so it matches properly. The next step required is to punch holes into the fiber so that we can bind them to the fence with ties cable. In the last step, we need to return the soil so the fiber will embedded inside the soil. Even though painting dampu requires less effort than installing fiber, it takes more patience because we have to carefully paint the floor and we can’t be rash.

At last, we succesfully painted 2 dampu and installed fiber on the front and both sides according to our initial goal. We finished working on 13.00 WIB. We took a photo together and gave the RPTRA our exclusive merchandise. We have learnt many things from this event such as patience, resilience, and many more. And the main point that we learn is helping people does not require us to know them first, but we have to be sincere in helping people. That way, we will feel the excitement from helping them.

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