Marimas Together with the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation Holds a Love Visit for Friends Disabilities
Berita Warga 
PT Marimas Putra Kencana together with the Buddha Tzu Chi Foundation conducted a Love Visit for disabled friends who are members of the Kinasih Community and Disabled Friends Community (KSD). The event with the theme "Love Visit" was held at the Merby Center Building, Jalan Mataram 653 Semarang, Central Java, Sunday ( 02/02/2025).
This activity of handing over tokens of love from PT Marimas Putra Kencana and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation also included a Sex Education Seminar for Youth with Disabilities.
Appearing to be present apart from friends with disabilities and companions, the Owner of the Merby Club, Prof. Hardhono Susanto and Drg Grace Widjaya, Buddhist Tzu Chi volunteers, and other guests.
CEO of PT Marimmas Putra Kencana Harjanto Halim said he was very grateful for the opportunity to appoint these extraordinary friends with disabilities as models for the 2025 Marimas calendar.
Harjanto further said that only in 2025, Marimas will print the largest number of calendars. Apart from being distributed to institutions, colleagues are also sold to distributors. "Hopefully this movement will provide new awareness to people in quotation marks who have always considered themselves to be more normal or better than other people," he said.He added that it turns out that many people are interested in seeing the beautiful and handsome faces of younger siblings. It is the photogenic faces of disabled younger siblings that are really impressive. Sometimes people only see disabled friends who can only sing, draw, dance, can dance but never see their faces. close up.
“This is awareness that must be transmitted to other people so that we can interact with friends with disabilities. Hopefully with this social activity Tzu Chi can start to take part. "Hopefully this activity will be useful for all of us and make us more humane," stressed Harjanto.
On that occasion, Yulius from the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation handed over one laptop each to Reza representing the Kinasih Community and Ida Modiste from the Friends of Disabled Community.
"Hopefully this token of love in the form of a laptop can be used to support educational facilities for friends with disabilities," said Yulius in his short message.
Meanwhile, Harjanto Halim from Marifood Group returned to provide attention to the Disabled Community. After making a calendar with photos of models with disabilities who were officially contracted as photo models, Marimas again distributed donations to the Kinasih Community and the Friends of Disabled Community from the sales of the calendars with a total donation of IDR 79,435,000."I didn"t expect the sales of the calendar to reach almost 80 and eighty million rupiah. So each Kinasih Community and Disabled Friends Community received a donation of IDR 39,2175,000. "This is purely from calendar sales as I promised during my last birthday celebration," explained Harjanto.
Seminar session Sex Education Seminar for Teenagers with Disabilities with resource person Dr. Dinie Ratri Desiningrum.S.Psi, MSi from Diponegoro University, guided by Krisna Priyastika from the Merby Club, was lively and fun.
Psychologist from Undip Dr. Dinie Ratri Desiningrum.S.Psi, MSi reminded parents of the importance of accompanying disabled friends to face the challenges of puberty.
According to Dinie, this is due to limited understanding in dealing with puberty, difficult communication and parents" concerns with the people around them.
“Parents must encourage communication by providing understanding to children with disabilities in facing puberty. "Apart from that, there are also threats from irresponsible people around them, also through existing social media," said Dinie.
This activity of handing over tokens of love from PT Marimas Putra Kencana and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation also included a Sex Education Seminar for Youth with Disabilities.
Appearing to be present apart from friends with disabilities and companions, the Owner of the Merby Club, Prof. Hardhono Susanto and Drg Grace Widjaya, Buddhist Tzu Chi volunteers, and other guests.
CEO of PT Marimmas Putra Kencana Harjanto Halim said he was very grateful for the opportunity to appoint these extraordinary friends with disabilities as models for the 2025 Marimas calendar.
Harjanto further said that only in 2025, Marimas will print the largest number of calendars. Apart from being distributed to institutions, colleagues are also sold to distributors. "Hopefully this movement will provide new awareness to people in quotation marks who have always considered themselves to be more normal or better than other people," he said.He added that it turns out that many people are interested in seeing the beautiful and handsome faces of younger siblings. It is the photogenic faces of disabled younger siblings that are really impressive. Sometimes people only see disabled friends who can only sing, draw, dance, can dance but never see their faces. close up.
“This is awareness that must be transmitted to other people so that we can interact with friends with disabilities. Hopefully with this social activity Tzu Chi can start to take part. "Hopefully this activity will be useful for all of us and make us more humane," stressed Harjanto.
On that occasion, Yulius from the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation handed over one laptop each to Reza representing the Kinasih Community and Ida Modiste from the Friends of Disabled Community.
"Hopefully this token of love in the form of a laptop can be used to support educational facilities for friends with disabilities," said Yulius in his short message.
Meanwhile, Harjanto Halim from Marifood Group returned to provide attention to the Disabled Community. After making a calendar with photos of models with disabilities who were officially contracted as photo models, Marimas again distributed donations to the Kinasih Community and the Friends of Disabled Community from the sales of the calendars with a total donation of IDR 79,435,000."I didn"t expect the sales of the calendar to reach almost 80 and eighty million rupiah. So each Kinasih Community and Disabled Friends Community received a donation of IDR 39,2175,000. "This is purely from calendar sales as I promised during my last birthday celebration," explained Harjanto.
Seminar session Sex Education Seminar for Teenagers with Disabilities with resource person Dr. Dinie Ratri Desiningrum.S.Psi, MSi from Diponegoro University, guided by Krisna Priyastika from the Merby Club, was lively and fun.
Psychologist from Undip Dr. Dinie Ratri Desiningrum.S.Psi, MSi reminded parents of the importance of accompanying disabled friends to face the challenges of puberty.
According to Dinie, this is due to limited understanding in dealing with puberty, difficult communication and parents" concerns with the people around them.
“Parents must encourage communication by providing understanding to children with disabilities in facing puberty. "Apart from that, there are also threats from irresponsible people around them, also through existing social media," said Dinie.
