Giovanny Yan Mario Paridy Man

RSS Baumata Blok A No.2 RT.001/RW.001

Baumata Barat, Taebenu, Kupang

The Scholarship Committee

Gedung Danadyaksa Cikini, Jalan Cikini Raya No.91A-D
Menteng, Jakarta Pusat

To whom it may concern:

My name is Giovanny Yan Mario Paridy Man and I am a fresh graduate with Bachelor
Degree from Medical Education Program at Faculty of Medicine and Veterinary, Nusa
Cendana University Kupang. My plan is to pursue a two-year master’s degree after I
graduated. I had finished my job as a health promotion staff at a hospital in Kupang. I did that
job from August 2022 to January 2023.

In university, I did Real Work Lectures with my classmates in Enoneontes, a remote village
in Timor Tengah Selatan (TTS) Regency. I visited people at every house. During the
program, I found stunting as a big problem among people in that village. Stunting is a
condition when a child could not grow normally because less of nutrition given by parents.
There were many children in that village who lived with stunting. They were in elementary
school, but their height and weight were not as normal as other children in their age. Some of
them also experienced deceleration of brain growth. Consequently, they could not study well
in school and at home. Ironically, local authorities seem to only expect central government
assistance, but rarely seem to move independently to socialize the importance of nutrition to
the fetus from the first 1000 days of life until the child grows up and how pregnant mom do
their activities during pregnancy. During our real work lectures, we tried to do our best in
socializing this thing so people could understand more about the importance of nutrition for
children. We also did free health checks for the villagers during our program.

I have enrolled in several classes that crossover to the medical major with some basic
sciences of public health. My goal is to have a comprehensive view of how public health
policy action should be planned with good financing. I have researched correlation between
playing games and sleep quality in medical students in my campus under the supervision of
my lecturers. This helped speed up my education.

My goal is to become an expert in health policy who could contribute ideas for institutions
and authorities, especially in East Nusa Tenggara. I have seen how local authorities had
policies and planning in many cases, especially malaria, dengue, and stunting. Some of those
policies and planning were not so effective in tackling those problems. Even local
government should ask help from central government in cases which actually could be in
local authorities’ control. I would like to give ideas and concepts based on knowledges I will
get in the course I would like to take for master’s degree. I hope those ideas could be useful
for better health policy and action in my province.

I had worked in hospital for 4 months. During that time, I did health promotions by face-to-
face meeting with people and by social media. After finishing my master’s degree, I want to
work in academic world or institution which could accomkdate my ideas in better health
policy and action planning. I appreciate your consideration. With your help, I can continue
my schooling in public health, especially health policy and planning for better NTT in health
aspect.

Sincerely,
Giovanny Yan Mario Paridy Man