COVID-19 PACKAGE - Business • Business Overview

This activity is a part of the COVID-19 package. The package aims to give youth workers the tools to discuss the consequences of the pandemic with their target group. The COVID-19 overview panel is the starting point for all the discussions. After playing the overview panel, extra activities on the seven different topics are available to dive deeper into the matter. 

This panel is an overview panel that links together all elements of the Street Business Tool Kit. First, different business concepts are presented (e.g. supply chains, business interactions, attracting customers, understanding the market, …). In the center of the panel, you can see the main discussion board with different types of places and locations, e.g. a village, a market place, the street, a tourist area, … Several types of businesses are shown in a total of 68 different situations that can feed the discussion. On the left side of the panel there are four individual illustrations extracted from the main discussion board, which portrays an example of a possible market chain. On the right side of the panel there are seven individual illustrations extracted from the main discussion board, to use as a search-and-discuss game. The detailed panel offers a chance to reflect with the participants the economic impact of the pandemic for children and youth working on the streets.

The COVID-19 crisis impacts on both the demand and the supply sides of the labour market, and it has major implications for the goal of ensuring full employment and decent work. In particular, the crisis is pushing many families into poverty and increasing existing inequalities.

• Link the panel to the COVID-19 Overview Panel and ask the children if they can find businesses or characters that were impacted by the pandemic from an economical point of view.
• Roleplay: ask a player to act out a situation on the panel. The other players try to find the situation. Then, ask the player to act it out again, taking into account the restrictions taken during the pandemic.
• Drawing: repeat the same exercise mentioned above, but draw the situation on a paper or board.

• Learn about the economical consequences of the pandemic and how to cope with the new situations
• Learn how to adapt and be flexible in a harsh socio-economical context