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CESC Lesson 5 - Community Action

Community action involves collective efforts by community members to address social problems and improve well-being. It requires community engagement, solidarity among members, and an understanding of citizenship. Community engagement is about developing partnerships through involvement and participation. Solidarity bonds community members with shared interests and support for one another. Citizenship encompasses both rights and responsibilities to contribute to society and help fellow community members.

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CESC Lesson 5 - Community Action

Community action involves collective efforts by community members to address social problems and improve well-being. It requires community engagement, solidarity among members, and an understanding of citizenship. Community engagement is about developing partnerships through involvement and participation. Solidarity bonds community members with shared interests and support for one another. Citizenship encompasses both rights and responsibilities to contribute to society and help fellow community members.

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CESC: Lesson 5

Community
Action
Objectives:

1. Recognize the value of undertaking


community action modalities;
2. Appreciate the importance of community
engagement, solidarity, and citizenship as
part of community action; and
3. Show the impact of community action to
the lives within a community.
Processing
Questions:
1. Based on the video, how will you define
community action and community
engagement?
2. What do you think is the impact of the project
to the community?
3. Given the interventions provided by people in
the video, why do you thinkcommunity action
is important?
Community
Action
Community Action

It refers to collective efforts


done by people directed
towards addressing social
problems in order to achieve
social well-being.
Community Action

In dealing with community action,


it involves a lot of activities and
processes that increases the
understanding , engagement
and empowerment of
communities in the design and
delivery of services to the
community.
Community Action

Tree planting is an example


of community action
initiatives which aims to
promote environmental
awareness and prevention
program for natural
disasters such as flood.
Community Action

The community builds


collective effort to address the
problem.
This is why community action
helps build community by
sharing community members’
knowledge, skills, and ideas .
Community Action

For a program initiative to


happen, it is important to know
the following elements of
community action:
Community Engagement
Solidarity
Citizenship .
Community
Engagement
Community
Engagement
It refers to the process of developing
partnerships and sustaining relationships
with and through groups of people affiliated
by geographic proximity , special interest
for the purpose of working for the common
good and addressing issues that affect
their well-being .
Community
Engagement

What makes community engagement a


very rewarding experience is the amount
of enthusiasm coming from all
participants .
This means that everyone in the
community participates .
Community
Engagement

The goals of community engagement are:


To build trust;
To enlist new resources and allies;
To create better communication,
To improve overall health outcomes as
successful projects, evolve into lasting
collaborations
Community
Engagement

With community engagement, the diversity


and the number of identified stakeholders
can be expected to increase.
Solidarity
Solidarity

What holds these people to work


together is the value of solidarity.
Solidarity is essential to the success of
community action.
Solidarity

Solidarity is defined as a unity or


agreement of feeling or action ,
especially among individuals with a
common interest and mutual support
within a group.
Solidarity

We have seen the responses of


government, private sectors and other
civil society organizations for community
action to take effect.
This will not be possible without
solidarity .
Solidarity

It is the bond that unites the community


member to engage and participate in the
community with the same interest.
In the context of the video clip, they
unified themselves to engage the people
in sports as viable intervention to victims
of disaster.
Citizenship
Citizenship

Another community action initiative is


the element of citizenship .
We involve ourselves to different
activities in the community because we
are bounded by the duties and
obligations as citizens.
Citizenship

Citizenship is defined as l egal status


defined by civil , political and social
rights .
This means that a person is free to act
according to the law and having the
right to claim the law’s protection .
Citizenship

In the context of the Philippines, we have


given our own individual rights and
privileges with a much stronger sense of
individual, collective and communitarian
duties and obligations.
Citizenship

We have our civic obligations as Filipino


citizen to be responsible with our
kapwa Pilipino .
Being a citizen requires us to have moral
obligations with our community to
build a peaceful and humane society.
Citizenship

The implementation of simple projects in


our community such as outreach
programs for underprivileged children,
waste segregation, etc., are actions that
fulfill our civic obligation us citizen .
Citizenship

Unfortunately, our society seems to


suffer from an excess of selfish
individualism where one becomes
uninterested with what is happening
around.
Citizenship

Amid the different crisis happening in


our country, it is an opportunity for us to
practice our civic obligation to our
Filipino brothers and sisters even in just
our own little effort.
Citizenship

At the end, we are all citizens of


this country who need to help
one another in working to have
better communities .
References

https://shsph.blogspot.com/2021/04/comm
unity-engagement-solidarity-and.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=kI_6quF_sJ4

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