Development and Management of Healthy Community Kitchens and Trauma Healing for Sarampat Village Refugee Post Cianjur Earthquake

Abstract

Earthquakes can disturb food access in the affected area that can lead to increase food insecurity and malnutrition. Community kitchen is one of programs to maintain refugee nutritional status by community empowerment and increase food access. This community service was aim to develop and manage community kitchen for Sarampat Village Refugee Post Cianjur Earthquake. Some activities was done including preparation, construction, organizing of community kitchen, trauma healing, and at the end, handover community kitchen management to refugees. A total 190 refugees live in temporary settlements. In the second day, refugees’s breakfast, lunch, dinner was made in the community kitchen. Trauma healing for children in the temporary settlement was also conducted to recover from post-earthquake trauma. Education to manage the kitchen, Kitchen utensil, and Balance nutrition menu for 7 days was given for the refugee in the last day. Some obstacles were faced during the implementation relate to food supply. Overall, all the activities had been done well and can be implemented for similar conditions.