Empowering Chlidren of Kali Adem Village Through Hydroponic Cultivation to Increase Productivity During the Pandemic Time of Covid-19

Abstract

The most important function of education is to produce people who are integrated and able to face all kinds of national problems. In this day and age, creative education is very much needed, the process of which requires educators to motivate and bring out students' creativity during the learning process, namely by using innovative strategies. Creative learning also requires educators to be able to stimulate students to bring out creativity, both in the context of creative thinking and in the context of creatively doing something. That's why this project was held for children in Kali Adem, namely to achieve the SDG goals and improve their creative thinking skills which will be good for them to have better job opportunities in the future, and we also do an educational environment for children in Kali Adem so that they are more aware of the environment around them. Our goal in implementing this social project is to help and encourage children in Kali Adem to improve their creative education and increase their enthusiasm for learning now and in the future. The activities we teach are activities such as drawing and coloring and the most important thing is to teach them to use used goods that are around them which can be used to make something creative, so our idea is to use used plastic bottles as a container for planting activities using the hydroponic method, because of the limited land available there, we decided to make a hydroponic project using used bottles that did not use a lot of lands. In addition, the programs that we have made are following the theory of international relations by using the theory of SDGs number 4 and target 4a, we also use constructivist learning theory and add the concept of sustainability to use theories related to our programs.