The Dasa Wisma of the Flood-Resilient Village Wonokusumo

Abstract

The aim of this activity is to motivate and increase society or community's understanding towards the disaster risk; develop society or community's capacity on responding certain disaster; enhance women empowerment in the disaster relief programs and activities on the local scale; and provide a contribution on empowering and developing DesTaNa/Desa Tangguh Bencana program (lit. Disaster-Resilient Village) in the flood-prone region of Wonokusumo district, Surabaya. The Dasa Wisma (ten neighboring families group, lit. Ten Houses) are trained to build and install biopori. The result of this activity is to expect the reduction of flood inundation areas during the rainy season so that the community can be freed from the flood.