Improving Life Skills and Community Income With Soap Entrepreneurs

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201201.237How to use a DOI?

Keywords

liquid soap, solid soap, entrepreneurship, skills, income

Abstract

Soap is one of the cleaning agents used in everyday human life. Soap helps humans cleanse the body, clothes, and various tools from dirt, both oil and dust. The people of Sidokare village, Rejoso Nganjuk sub-district, are farmers who rely on family income from agriculture, especially shallots and rice. Between planting and harvesting periods where if there is no pest attack, they feel the need for activities that can increase family income. Entrepreneur training makes commercial products very appropriate, and they are delighted and even hope to be realized soon. The entrepreneurial products that will be trained and produced, including making liquid soap and making solid soap. The results obtained in this activity included an increase in skills in making entrepreneurial products that were not initially owned by the people of Sidokare. Several people from the members of the Sidokare community are entrepreneurs, both producing and marketing these entrepreneurial products. Another result of the activity is additional family income for each participant in this entrepreneurship training. Rupiah sales from week to week continues to increase; it can even be said that whatever is produced every week is sold out. Until now, where the materials prepared by the Team have been used up and have purchased the materials themselves. It was concluded that this activity was successful in increasing community skills and increasing family income.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Titik Taufikurohmah
AU  - Sari Edi Cahyaningrum
AU  - Warju
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/03
TI  - Improving Life Skills and Community Income With Soap Entrepreneurs
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1401
EP  - 1405
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201201.237
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201201.237
ID  - Taufikurohmah2020
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