INDOOR WORLD CAFE: A FUN WAY TO LEARN ABOUT WATER TRAILS
A group of HSBC employees were seen crowding the booths at the HSBC Premier Lounge, WTC 1 Building, Jakarta. The activity that took place on Tuesday (16/10) after working hours was organized by WWF-Indonesia and PT Bank HSBC Indonesia. Titled "World Café Indoor" with the theme "Water Footprint", the event aimed to disseminate information about water and measure HSBC employees' insights on water usage in their daily lives.
World Café Indoor was held as one of the activities in a series of collaborative water conservation programs carried out in the Koto Panjang area, Riau & West Sumatra. At the beginning of the event, participants received Global Sustainability Learning Module material presented by Sani Firmansyah and Denaya Karenzi from Panda Mobile WWF-Indonesia. Sani explained about the three areas prioritized by HSBC, namely Future Skills, Sustainable Network and Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Finance. Sani and Denaya also explained about the collaboration between WWF and HSBC in water conservation programs, both in Rimbang Baling and Koto Panjang, as well as information about water conditions on Earth.
After the presentation, participants who were divided into seven groups visited four booths at the event, namely the café booth, supermarket, everyday service, and mini water lab. Each participant was required to visit each booth and play according to a predetermined mechanism. Each booth was manned by a facilitator who would ask questions about water usage related to the booth theme. With great enthusiasm, participants guessed the amount of water used in daily activities, such as making coffee, tea, washing cars, and others. In addition to playing interactively, at the mini water lab booth, participants could also test the quality of water samples they brought from their homes.
To pass the time while waiting for their turn to visit the booths, participants enjoyed videos with virtual reality tools. After participating in all the booths, participants who received a stamp could exchange their stamp sheet with bamboo straws provided by WWF-Indonesia.
The event was closed with a question and answer session. There were three participants who gave testimonies about the activities that had been carried out. Oki, one of the participants, said that he never knew that it takes about 8,000 liters of water to make a shoe. Therefore, she decided not to buy shoes just to follow trends or fashion. "I will be wiser in buying shoes later," he said.