ACCOMPANYING THE COMMUNITY DEALING WITH PROBLEMS AS EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The content of this article is about a report of our community development program in accompanying the community who lives around the Rasamala RPTRA at Kelurahan Menteng Dalam, Kecamatan Tebet, with problem solutions they were dealing as effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. As people all over the country – even all over the world, the community living around the Rasamala RPTRA experienced impacts brought by the COVID-19 pandemic economy. Aside of economic problems, families has also been facing problems dealing with study from home (SFH) situation. Not only are parents facing problems caused by difficulties to accompany their children with online learning, they are also facing their children being cranky and bored because of staying at home for too long time as well. Thus, parents need to have extra patience and extra ability to deal with their childrens’ cranky behaviour. Aiming  to provide assistance to the community living around the Rasamala RPTRA in dealing the above mentionned problems, the purpose our program was to strengthen the community’s entrepreneurial spirit, and accompany the community with parenting problem solving as well. It was delivered in a way of webinar using zoom meeting delivering two main topics: entrepreneurship and parenting, in a sequence that the issue of parenting was delivered first as requested by the team’s partner. This webinar (zoom meeting) was attended by around 20 participants from the community, our partner, and our team ourselves. Discussion went primarily on sharing experience online selling, which was responsed eagerly by participants who were doing business already, and some who are interested in starting a new business. It can be concuded that participants still need accompaniment in strengthening their entrepreneurial spirit and skills in order to solve economic problems, while they also still need consulting on parenting as well.