VERITAS ET MISERICORDIA 114

DISCOVERING THE COMMUNITY

WEEK 1: ORIENTATION WEEK

MODULE ACTIVITY 1

Introduce yourselves in class by saying your name, stating the community where you are
from and describing your community. Complete the sentence below:

My name is Janella Mae C. Riego of Barangay Tugatog, Malabon City which

known for best Pancit Malabon

MODULE ACTIVITY 2

Which of the institutional core values will be most significant in conducting community
engagement activities. (Explain why.)
1. Respectful- because in conducting community engagement activities requires
communication to other people so we must respect them.
2. Responsibility. We act responsibly, and we are accountable for our decisions, actions,
and their consequences.
3. Discovery. We seek and create new knowledge and understanding, and foster
creativity and innovation, for the benefit of our communities, society, and the
environment.
4. Excellence. We strive for excellence in all our endeavors as individuals, an institution,
and a leader in higher education

WEEK 2: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN OUR LADY OF FATIMA

UNIVERSITY

MODULE ACTIVITY 1

In the space provided, draw an object that best symbolizes your community. Discuss the
similarities and differences of your communities.
 Our community is like a KNOT, they
become bound to each other same as with our
community. We bound to each other. We
have unity and we become one.

The differences between the KNOT and our

community, there are some point and
situation that they don’t bound to each other
unlike the knot.

MODULE ACTIVITY 2

What cluster in the HELPS program does your degree belong to? What are the
competencies of your degree program that can be shared to the community?
- Marketing teaches valuable skills in data interpretation. Though not always stated
as a job function, many companies delight in having candidates who know how to
read data. Marketing experience, even if it's just a course or two, can lend to
foundational knowledge in data interpretation and analytics. So that I can used my
degree in our community when it comes on business matters or in budgeting.

Journal Writing

What is lacking in your community that you think you can help with when you get your
bachelor’s degree?
- As a marketing student, I can help our community by promoting cleanliness in
every street. Our community are lack in promotion in many terms. So I’ll used my
degree and my learnings to help our community to have strategies on how to have
stable economy and business industry and a lot.

WEEK 3: PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

MODULE ACTIVITY 1

Evaluate the community activities of your college.

1. Enumerate specific activities that have been implemented by your college.
a. Advert expo
b. CBA week
c. marketing month
d. JEBC
e. FJMA officers webinars
2. What is/are the principles of community engagement applied by your college?
a. Collaboration and shared purpose, support and encourage participants,
governments community, institutions and more.
b. Openness and Learning. Help all involved listen to each other, explore new
ideas unconstrained by predetermined outcomes, learn and apply information in
ways that generate new options, and rigorously evaluate community engagement
activities for effectiveness.
c. Transparency and Trust. Be clear and open about the process, and provide a
public record of the organizers, sponsors, outcomes, and range of views and ideas
expressed.
d. Impact and Action. Ensure each participatory effort has real potential to make a
difference, and that participants are aware of that potential.

3. What is the level of engagement of your college with their partner community?
- The level of engagement of our college with our partner community is level 1,
sharing information. In this time of pandemic, sharing ideas can lead us to have a
better decisions.

4. In what modality of community engagement are your college community activities

now? Give examples.
- Attention, There are two modalities useful in earning the attention of an audience,
we call them "entertain" and "inform" although often (as with all five) they can be
used in concert. The better the content, the more valuable it will be to an audience
member, and the more likely it will be to result in some sort of response -- whether
it is through sharing (passing the company's message to one's social graph) or
through co-creation. A "better" content will be one that is in itself more
entertaining or more informative, but also one that is more tuned to the needs of
the people consuming the content as opposed to the desires of the company to
achieve some transaction.
INFORM -- In its most basic sense, informing communications are ones that help
educate people about something whether it be a product, service, or the problem
that such product or service addresses. For example, a company that sells do-it-
 yourself home repair supplies might simply advertise the low price of lumber
available at their store. While this would be a form of "information" it is of
transitive value and only relevant to those immediately in need of the particular
goods on sale. Instead such a company could construct a website answering
questions about how best to do various repair or construction projects. How, for
example, to use that lumber to build a treehouse.
ENTERTAIN -- Getting people to laugh has been a mainstay of advertising since
virtually the first commercial messages were distributed. Whether as humor,
spectacle, or narrative the notion that an advertising message can be coupled with
some kind of entertaining content is well worn and works in the social space as
readily as in other mediums. Finding those opportunities to create an entertaining
envelope for your ad message which is also adopted by a community is somewhat
more difficult than the onanistic pleasure we get from a good commercial on
primetime TV. But a number of simple mechanisms are evolving

Journal Writing

What can you do to help your college provide better community engagement?
To help my college to provide better community engagement you need to team up
with them, because I believe that team work makes the dream work. So, if you want to
achieve success then work with your team.

WEEK 4-5: COMMUNITY VISITINTERVIEW WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS

MODULE ACTIVITY 1
Go to your assigned community as a group. Interview at least 3 community leaders.
These may be barangay officials and/or leaders of people’s organizations.

Guide Questions:

1. What is your position? What are your duties and responsibilities? Write their
answers on the space provided.
-Barangay Desk Officer is the assign frontline service, responsible for answering
calls and writing complaints of citizens.

2. How long have you been a leader in your organization? How were you selected?
 3. What are your goals for your organizations? What changes do you want to
implement?
My goal is to keep safe and promote healthy environment fighting Covid-19 and
helping other officials to decrease Covid-19 cases.

4. What are the common problems you encounter in your organizations? How do you
address these problems?
-Common problems encountered in this time of pandemic are citizens disobeying
health protocols which add Covid-19 cases to the community. When we are
patrolling some of the people were still acting like they didn’t know orders
implemented that would makes a hard time to deal with them.

MODULE ACTIVITY 2
Based on your interviews, identify the leadership styles of the people you interviewed in
the community. Explain why you think they display such style of leadership. You may
use the matrix as a pattern.

Name of Leader Position Leadership Styles Explanation

- Desk officer Coaching keeping them
understand the value
of self-development.
Barangay Captain Visionary Barangay Captain
trust his
subordinates
maximizing their
strengths to build a
happy environment

Journal Writing
Do you see yourself as a leader in your community? What type of a leader do you see
yourself?

Yes, I see myself as a leader in our community as a servant leader because I live
by a people-first mindset and believe that when team members feel personally and
professionally fulfilled, they are more effective and more likely to produce great work
regularly. I love to Motivate my team, I also commit to growing and encourage
collaboration and engagement.

WEEK 7: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

MODULE ACTIVITY 1

1. Watch the documentary “After the Storm: Building the Pope Francis Village”
2. If you are the community organizer or facilitator, what are the challenges that you
might encounter in Pope Francis Village? Give at least 3 examples and explain
a. lack of understanding – this is the reason why they have a misunderstanding and
leads to fight.
b. different beliefs- they didn’t respect other beliefs, and community with people
who doesn’t respect opinions, may lead to fight.
c. lack of communication- it is important to communicate to avoid
misunderstanding.

Journal Writing

How can you unite a divided community and, eventually, empowering them?
- Communicate to them and explain that all of us are having one purpose and one vision
so having misunderstood can’t help us to achieve our goals.

WEEK 8: PARTICIPATORY RAPID APPRAISAL PART 1

MODULE ACTIVITY 1

Draw a map of your own community indicating the different aspects such as location of
residential areas, different services, business establishments, natural resources, etc.

Journal Writing
What strategic landmarks and services do your think makes your community productive?
- The City of Valenzuela is known as the “Northern Gateway to Metropolitan
Manila” due to two major highways traversing it – the MacArthur Highway and the
North Luzon Expressway. Its proximity to the cities of Manila, Quezon and Caloocan has
transformed this once idyllic town into a bustling highly urbanized city. The strategies
landmarks and services are the factories, public markets and malls.

WEEK 9: PARTICIPATORY RAPID APPRAISAL PART 2

Journal Writing

What barriers did you experience during the FGD? How can you overcome these
barriers?
- During the Focused Group Discussion, the barriers I experience is Communication,
since its pandemic we can only communicate through online. We overcome it by giving a
lot of consideration and understanding for each members of the group.

WEEK 13: PLANNING FOR COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Journal Writing

What do you think are the factors that will make your community plan work and factors
that will make it difficult?
5. The one factor that will make our community plan work is good communication
and team work. And the one factor that make it difficult is online communication.

WEEK 14 - 15: COMMUNITY IMMERSION PLANNING WITH COMMUNITY

Journal Writing

What is your SWOT analysis of yourself? How can it help you in your future endeavors?
STRENGTH WEAKNESSES

1) Creative thinker 1) poor verbal communicator

2) Love to learn 2) Pride
3) Having a vision - These 2 negative characters is my
4) time management skills weakness, but I can make turn this into a
- Having these 4 strengths can help my positive.
future endeavor because if I can be a
follower then I would be a great leader.
OPPORTUNITY THREATS

I can turn all my weaknesses into my - overthinking

strength

Journal Writing

What are the factors that made this project a success? How was it a factor?
- The factors that made this project a success is Team work, because having a team work
means you can accept the opinion and suggestions of everyone. Having team work we
will able to respect the difference of everyone and having a team work makes the dream
work.

WEEK 18: EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY PROJECT/ ACTIVITY

MODULE ACTIVITY 2
Reflect in the lessons you learned in this class and answer the following questions:
1. How has your experience in this course helped you become a better Fatimanian?
- I’ve learned 3 things in this study: (1) I got to know myself more (2) I got to
know my capabilities, skills when it comes on leading. (3) I’ve learned a lot about
leading people.

2. What are the three words that best describe your experience? (1) Unexpected:
Everything that I’ve learned in this course is unexpected, I thought It was just
about the school and the community but no, Veritas also thought us to how to be a
great leader. Not just for our team but also to ourselves. (2) Grateful’ Like what
I’ve said earlier that the experience is unexpected and because of that I am very
grateful to have unexpected lesson and experience that I never thought I need.
(3) Blessed; All the things that I’ve experience about the community and
leadership is a blessing.

3. How likely are you to participate in future community engagement activities of the
university?
- After the experience, I like to engage more activities in our university although it
is hard to lead and to have responsibility its still an opportunity to learn more.