The village livelihood curriculum provides village volunteers with the science underpinning disease as well as health and welfare information that can be shared with their communities, thus empowering them to make decisions to improve their own health at both the village and family unit level. The curriculum also includes information and activities required to enhance productivity and improve farming practices. The curriculum will assist volunteers to provide information in a timely way to members of their communities as well as undertake activities to enhance the wellbeing and livelihoods of households. This curriculum is written in a way that enables volunteers to both learn about disease and present information in a meaningful way to people with low education and literacy. This program was first piloted in West Sulawesi as part of the Australian -Indonesia Centre’s Village Livelihood Program (VLP) in 2019. The program trained volunteers to support improved health and agricultural outcomes in their home villages. A short video on the program can be viewed below.
