Meatballs Tewel Training to Identify Business Opportunities for Women Online Drivers in Surabaya

Abstract

From the numerous amount of Women Online Drivers in Surabaya, a number of them require special attention such as single parents, owning difable children, and belongs to the Low-Income Community. This Community Service was inspired by the direction of the Governor of East Java, Khofifah Indar Parawansa. The governor stated that certain parties should participate in empowering women online drivers to get a safe and comfortable job considering the risks while carrying out their work as women online drivers. It is hoped that the Bakso Tewel (Young Jackfruit) production training can be used as a provision to carry out promising jobs remotely (from home). It helps them to have more time to take care of their difable children. Tewel is chosen as the meatball ingredient since this material is affordable and easy to get. The method used is lectures accompanied by cooking demonstrations, group practice, presentation methods, calculation of HPP and pricing to the target audience. The object of this study is 25 women online drivers in Surabaya. The results of the training are making Tewel meatballs with a variant of the recipe for meatball soup, fried meatballs and teriyaki sauce. These product has higher selling value without reducing its nutritional value, so it is worthy of being used as a product in the development of a pilot business in order to increase income to improve the living standards of the target audience.