Healing through Theater and Snacks

Some women refugees of the Mt. Sinabung eruption are trying to recover from the trauma of being uprooted from their homes by staging theatrical performances and making snacks.

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Evacuees of the Sinabung Women\'s Voice make snacks on Thursday (31/5/2018) at the Simpang Enam Batak Karo Protestant Church (GBKP) in Karo regency, North Sumatera. The evacuees are starting a new life by making cakes and actively engaging in business.

Refugees of the Mt. Sinabung eruption left behind their homes and farms when the mountain erupted in 2010. Some women refugees are trying to recover from the trauma of being uprooted from their homes by staging theatrical performances and making snacks.

The women’s group is called Suara Perempuan Sinabung (SPS), or the Voice of Sinabung’s Women. “We left our home in 2013, just after my second daughter Desi Ginting enrolled for a month at a midwifery school in Medan,” Lisherlina beru Tarigan, 50, an SPS member from Sigarang-Garang village in Namanteran district, Karo regency, North Sumatra, said on Thursday (31/5/2018).