Monday, October 27, 2014
Community involvement is as key to
the success of the projects the Team Luop wants to be carried out as it is to
the support and teamwork among core group members. More importantly, it is the
community people who were the source of the data and they personally ranked the
problem that the group is working on now. In lieu with this, a community
assembly was once again organized for the Team Luop to present the core team
and the general idea of the projects to be carried out in the next 11 months of
exposure.
Last October 16, 2014, Thursday, the
Community Assembly was held at 3 in the afternoon at the Barangay Multi-Purpose
Covered Court where a mass BP taking for residents 18 years and above and a
Mass Weighing and Height Measuring for children ages 0-5 years old were
conducted simultaneously. All of the 6 puroks were well represented and a
substantial number of children and adults were weighed and monitored
respectively.
The program consisted of the
introduction of the different core team members by each of the Project
Coordinators of the L.A.K.A.S. Luop team. Moreover, it also became an
opportunity for the LAKAS Luop team to encourage the community people to
participate and show their support in the carrying out of the different
activities for the next 11 months. The response of those present was
overwhelming and gave the team an assumed assurance that whatever activity may
be carried out, as long as the community people are well informed, we have
their support.
Also important to note during this
activity was that Mr. Stevan, the municipal officer incharge of SWM initiated a lecture
on Waste segregation practices and composting which the people seemed
responsive to. He also informed the community people about the Waste Analysis
Characterization Study (WACS) which was already in the process of being carried
out, an initiative spearheaded by Ms.SherhataAdjid, the project head
coordinator of the Solid Waste Management Plan.
Surprisingly, the program was
stormed by a young man covered in blood and bruises in the face who allegedly
went into a fist fight during the day with another man from another barangay.
It was a great joy to watch that instead of the medical students, the members
of the Active Luop Emergency Response Team were the once who gave the first Aid
to the young man with the theory that they learned from the lectures about
Emergency and Trauma.
Cutting costs and trying to have team building exercises conducted by someone not qualified will ultimately end up in the whole activity backfiring, and perhaps not working like it is supposed to. Hence, we need a good facilitator to conduct such activities.
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