Empowerment of Housewives and Teenagers in Albinaa Madrasa Sukarasa Village, Arjasari Sub-District Bandung Regency

Abstract

—This paper aims to analyze the empowerment of housewives and teenagers conducted at Albinaa Madrasa. The empowerment adopts Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) – a participatory-based approach – by involving the community to be trained by direct practice. The empowerment activities include improving the skills of processing food, training about entrepreneurship, simple financial administration, and introducing online marketing. The skill improvement is done by making food so that the food more interesting, halal and thayyib (good for body health). The result of the research is analyzed by a description method based on interviews and direct observation. This empowerment program has succeeded in increasing the ability of housewives and teenagers in Albinaa Madrasa to provide their food for activities in the madrasa at lower prices, or the food can be sold to meet the order. The result shows that community development has increased diversification, increase motivation and creativity, as well as improve the family economy and madrasa.