Hamzanwadi University has again won a national competition grant, this time getting the Student Creativity Program (PKM) to empower and strengthen the economy of widowed mothers, by utilizing yard land through hydroponic farming.

PKM Supervising Lecturer Dr. Abdullah Muzakar, M.Si said that this PKM is a program of the Directorate of Learning and Student Affairs of the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2021.

"The implementation of this PKM is a form of responsibility of the academic community in carrying out the tri dharma of higher education, especially the dharma of service," explained Dr. Abdullah at the opening of the PKM at the Mujur Village Office, Sunday (06/06/2021).

The PKM program implemented in Tanak Beak Hamlet, Mujur Village, according to the doctor who graduated from UNJ, is a form of affirmation of the systematic problems faced by women's groups, especially those who are widows.

?This student program specifically focuses on strengthening economic issues, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, the economic conditions of the community are getting weaker and worse,? explained Abdullah Muzakkar.

In addition, this PKM is implemented as an effort to teach students to have social sensitivity and be critical of environmental issues, so that forms of creative and innovative abilities become something that is very much needed when they return to society, after education on campus.

Meanwhile, the Head of the PKM Group, M. Yasin, a student of the PGSD FIP study program, Hamzanwadi University, said that this widow development program was one of 3 groups that passed the selection for the Ministry of Education's PKM grant.

?This PKM team raised the theme of ?affirmation of strengthening the widow's economy through hydroponic farming using used goods? which will be implemented for the next four months,? explained Yasin.

Yasin said that today's opening activity was also a socialization of the program to widow mothers in Mujur Village, Praya Timur District, Central Lombok Regency, West Nusa Tenggara Province (NTB).

He hopes that this PKM can be beneficial for the community, especially the widows who are the main target, as an effort to improve the economy and a means of fulfilling personal needs.

"We hope that this program is a means of improving the community's economy and hopefully this program will really achieve its target," said the 8th semester student.

On the other hand, said Yasin, this activity is a form of student devotion to the community and the implementation of student learning obtained during the lecture process on campus.

"We hope that after the program is finished, the mothers who are widows can be more productive in utilizing land to improve the family economy," concluded the man born in Mujur.

Present on that occasion, the Head of Mujur Village Junaidi, community leaders, religious leaders, and mothers with widow status who are the target and a number of other invited guests.