In Indonesia, Oxfam Unwrapped worked with fishing communities that needed help surviving difficult seasons – by telling them to add salt.
Nearly 200 struggling households across three islands received everything to keep them fishing, including boats, outboard engines and training in fish processing techniques, including how to make ‘salty fish’.
This was great news for Petra Kwairbatin: “I wanted to improve my income but I don’t have idea and equipments to realise it”. So she and seven of her colleagues joined a fish processing training session and learned how to make salty fish from fresh fish that easily are found in the village.
Petra’s new skills mean she no longer relies on her vegetable crop to pay her son’s school fees. She says: “This is the first time I learnt how to make salty fish and Oxfam also gave us the equipment we need. I will make salting fish my alternative source of income.”