Community Empowerment Through Non Formal Education

Abstract

mpowerment means encouragement or
motivation, guidance, or assistance in increasing the
ability of individuals or communities to be able to be
independent. This effort is a stage of the empowerment
process in changing behavior, changing old habits to new
good behaviors. In the Pandemic era like the one that hit
today, the condition of formal education activities was
really empty. Conditions and government policies that
force people to limit activities including formal education.
In the era of the Covid 19 Pandemic, implementing or
organizing education is something that is difficult to do.
The government policy regarding the existence of
restrictions on activities (social distancing) resulted in a
freeze in the activities of the formal education world. In
this context, the importance of non-formal education is
to meet the educational needs of children in the
community. The existence of non-formal education will
greatly help the community in terms of limited activities
in social life. Cempaka Village has non-formal education
activities which are engaged in the education of reading
and writing al-Qur'an starting from Juz Ammah to being
proficient in reading al-Qur'an. This non-formal
education accepts students from the age of 6 to 17 years.