Labuan Bajo, NTT, May 8 -- The Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) is targeting the completion of a women's empowerment program through the Local Food Garden scheme to alleviate poverty and child health problems in the 3T (Disadvantaged, Frontier, and Outermost) regions within three years.

Deputy Minister of PPPA Veronica Tan said the program aims to make food sovereignty the entry point for strengthening women's roles in economic affairs and family nutrition in underdeveloped regions.

"Women's empowerment is our three-year target. Our entry point is through this Women's Local Food Garden," Veronica stated after a restorative social forestry forum with the Ministry of Forestry at the Bambu Lingkungan Lestari Foun...