PIP-Semarang Urban Farming Project

Name: PIP-Semarang Urban Farming Project
Start: 2016-01-01
End: 2016-12-31
Location: Indonesia

Indonesia Education Environment Education Environment Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Semarang city is growing and becomes the 4th largest City in Indonesia. It has some slum area problem due the high of urbanization from sub urban city surround this city. GAMeS (Gerakan Ayo Menanam Sayur) ENG: Vegetable Planting Movement. Initiated a movement to optimize the usage of household waste and rising awareness toward society on environment protection in Semarang City. They face some problem o spread this spirit. For example lack of awareness on how important farming habit in urban live, and city live makes not so much time want to invest on participating the movement. But, for some couple years GAMeS engage cooperation with family empowerment program that most of the members are housewife in certain group. This group has the most possibility to join the movement.

💼 What the programme involves

Farming activities with urban communities, Verticultur tools making in GAMeS activity center, Life-in with local communities, Distributing 1000 vegetable seeds in city center during CFD (car free day/weekend), Edu-Farming program in some schools.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will live with host family with shared toilet and bathroom, sleeping bag and mattress needed, self cooking.

📍 About the location

Borobudur Timur Street RT 04 RW 08 Kelurahan Kembangarum Kecamatan Semarang Barat Kota Semarang

⚠️ Requirements

Participation fee of Projects should be paid upon arrival. It is usually after orientation session from IIWC staff

ℹ️ Additional information

whole year except June 6th - july 6th, Special remarks: You will participate in some local communities’ routines meeting or activities. There are living also many children surrounding your campsite, please be prepare some educative games, laugh and smiles.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

LMTV-IIWC1608

01/01/2016 → 31/12/2016

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

1600000.00 IDR ≈ 79 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Jl. Borobudur Tim. No.4, Kembangarum, Kec. Semarang Barat, Kota Semarang, Jawa Tengah 50183, Indonesia

Indonesia

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Indonesia Rupiah (IDR / Rp)

Exchange rate

1 IDR = 0.000049 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Indonesian