Training on Making Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) as an effort to Handling and Prevention of Stunting in Tapak Gedung Village

On Friday 23 June 2023 a Community service activities in the form of community empowerment through training on making Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) as an effort to handle and prevent stunting in Tapak Gedung Village aim to increase the knowledge and skills of the Tapak Gedung Village PKK group in order to utilize and apply local resources such as coconut plants to become processed products with high selling value.

The community was previously familiar with coconut oil but only limited to coconut oil derived from red coconut shells and did not know the term VCO (Virgin Coconut Oil). Therefore, the community service team from Bengkulu University conducted training on making VCO which was chaired by Lathifah Khairani, SP, M.Sc, along with team members namely Fitri Yuwita S, S.TP., MP, Ulfah Anis, STP, M.Sc and Aprina Defianti, M.Pd.

This VCO making training begins with socialization regarding the use and manufacture of VCO, socialization regarding the importance of packaging, socialization regarding the importance of product marketing (both online and offline marketing).

The socialization activity aims to make people aware of the benefits of VCO and to be able to make and market the products they have produced. After providing further socialization, the service team guides the target audience in the process of making VCO.

This activity is carried out to reduce the percentage of stunted babies and increase village income through superior products so that in the future it is hoped that the potential for economic growth around the village will also grow. Community empowerment through training on making Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) is carried out using pre-test, outreach, training and evaluation methods accompanied by a post-test.