PROMOVE SAUDE LIU HUSI

PRODUTU LOKAL

PROMOTING HEALTH THROUGH LOCAL PRODUCTS

Conferensia/Conference:Transforme Timor-Leste ba Desenvolvimento SustentavelTransforming Timor-Leste for Sustainable Develpoment

Dili, Ministerio de Estangero - 6/7 Julho 2009

husi: Mariquita Fatima da Costa, Ana Teresa do Rosario, Inge Ruth Lempp

Centro Treino Integral e Desenvolvimento

CTID – Canossa Baucau

CTID is a skills training center for rural Timorese women. It‘s follow-up program accompanies the graduates in developing various products from local materials as a source for income generating and small business development.

The Follow-up program at CTID has assisted to develope businesses with its graduates in the following areas:

• Products from tais (hand-woven cloth)

• Natural soap from Coconut oil

• GGG

• VCO

• Tamarind Candy

• Natural Medicines

• and others

Food additive from local products

Gurih-Gurih-Gisi - GGG

Process of making GGG:

Vegetable leaves are briefly held in boiling water, then dried. Dried leaves ground to fine powder.

• Dry roast peanuts and grind finely

• Dry roast fine ground corn or rice

flour • Prepare soy flour (dry roast) or

use dry mild powder

• Virgin Coconut Oil

• Timorse salt

• Sugar (a little)

• Lab results of GGG, showing high nutritional results

Eating GGG is good for your child‘s health, and makes him/her smart

Developingposters for promotion of product

Official launching of GGG by Vice Minister for Health

Sra Madalena Hanjam in Loihuno Viqueque, Fevereiru 2009

Packaging

Weighing 250 gram for each packet of GGG

marking product with production and expiration

date

Labeling

Virgin Coconut Oil / Mina Nu‘u Original

• Through the ILO (International Labour Organization) project ‘WISE – Women in Self Employment‘ CTID graduates have become training providers for women‘s groups in remote rural villages (Viqueque: Bikarem, Bibileo; Baucau: Wailili, Bucoli; Lospalos: Malalhara) to develope products from local resources available

This linked:

• Women‘s Micro credit groups (TRM, MR & CCF)

• ILO• CTID• CDE

PARTNERSHIPS

Virgin Coconut Oil - VCO

Each production group is equiped with a coconut grinder…

…and coconut press

fermentation process of VCO

• Lab results of VCO show high nutritional value

Though the contract with MoH, CTID now purchasses VCO in bulk from the women‘s production groups in the viallges

Old bottles are collected from restaurants in Dili, then cleaned and sterilized

VCO is filtered one more time and filled into bottles

bottles are then sealed and labled and delivered to MoH in Manatutu district

Obstacles:• DoH says that the

lack of good promotion and capacity to monitor is serious issue, no matter how good the product is

• Transport for distribution in village health posts from district capital

• Storage of local products

• Getting local soy-beans

• Juggling the DoH varying numbers of recipients and their problems with distribution locally with production quantities

TAMARIND CANDYhigh in Vitamin C

Natural medicines

Qumquat Cordial