Cash Waqf a Tool to Support Children Education in Covid-19 Pandemic

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10.2991/assehr.k.210506.033How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cash Waqf, Children, Education, Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The outbreak of Covid-19 restricts public activities. The real impact of Covid-19 is the decrease in the income of some people. Employees stay at home. Traders stop selling temporarily because the market is closed. Transport drivers have reduced passengers. Everyone has a lot of needs. Such food, shelter, education, and health. The main problem is the cost of children’s education who go to school. Parents should pay additional costs besides basic costs, like school fee, and book money. The additional cost is for online learning. Online learning uses information technology like smartphones and the internet. The problem is that not all families have a smartphone for their children. However, children get materials, tasks, work, and report tasks using smartphones. This certainly adds to the cost of parents expenses. To help people who have reduced income in the pandemic, it is necessary to optimize the empowerment cash of waqf in order to bring benefits to the people, based on the provisions of waqf implementation. The research aims, to analyze cash waqf and its benefits to support children’s education in Covid-19 pandemics. The research is normative juridical research. The data sources in this research are secondary data. The technique use for collecting data is a documentation study. The research found that the cash waqf has great potential if managed well. The management of cash waqf should be done professionally. Cash waqf is invested in productive fields, so that the cash waqf development fund can be used to help people affected the Covid-19 pandemics. One of them is to help with the cost of supporting the child’s education. The empowerment of cash waqf is a solution for people who experience a lack of income due to Covid-19. As a form of concern to people, cash waqf empowerment activities to support children’s education contain an element of investment for the child’s future as the next generation of the nation. Empowerment of cash waqf to support children’s education in the pandemic can help children of the community who are financially impacted by of the Covid-19 outbreak. The cash waqf is given as an aid to pay the children’s school fees or buy a smartphone. With smartphones, children can easily access the subject matter and tasks given by their teacher. Children can do their job well and send their task reports to the teacher, during the pandemic, children task must be reported through the tool of information technology, such as by uploading videos through youtube. Cash waqf can also be used to provide facilities that make it easier for children to access the internet for the sake of learning.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Faisal Faisal
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/08
TI  - Cash Waqf a Tool to Support Children Education in Covid-19 Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Law and Human Rights 2020 (ICLHR 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 241
EP  - 247
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210506.033
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210506.033
ID  - Faisal2021
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