DIVISION OF ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY

KABASALAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

F. L. Peña, Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay

Fourth quarter
LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET
COMMUNITY-ACTION INITIATIVES BASED ON ITS CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship Module 3
S.Y 2022-2023

Learning Competency: Assess selected community -action initiatives based on its core values and principles
Learning Objective:
1. Recall students’ knowledge on the core values and principles of community-action initiatives.
2. Assess selected community-action initiatives based on its core values and principles.
3. Recognize the relevance of community-action initiatives towards creating a better community.

MINI LESSON
VALUES - are our guidelines for living and in choosing the right behavior. Each of us has a set of deeply held beliefs about
how the world should be. For some people, that set of beliefs is largely dictated by a particular religion, denomination/
sect, culture, peer group, or the society at large. For others, it has been arrived at through careful thought and reflection on
various experiences. For most of us, it is probably a combination of the two. Values often concern the core issues of our
lives: personal relationships, morality, gender and social roles, race, social classes, and the organization of the society, to
name just a few.
PRINCIPLES -are the fundamental scientific, logical, or moral/ethical “truths” arising from experience, knowledge, and
values on which we base our actions and thinking.
ASSUMPTIONS-are the next level of truths. The ones we feel to be irrelevant we can take for granted, given the principles
we have accepted. If we accept, for instance, that life is an “unalienable right” – a right of every human being that cannot
be taken away – then we will usually assume that killing another person is wrong, or at least that we don’t have the right to
do it.
COMMUNITY ACTIONS is any activity that increases the understanding, engagement, and empowerment of communities in
the design and delivery of local services.
Why is community action important? Community action is necessary because it focuses on putting communities at the
heart of their own local services.
REVIEW: CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY-ACTION INITIATIVES
1. Human Rights are universal and inalienable. All people everywhere in the world are entitled to them. “All human beings
are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” No one, therefore, should suffer discrimination on the basis of race, color,
ethnicity, gender, age, language, sexual orientation, religion, political or other opinion, national, social or geographical
origin. The rights of everyone to an adequate standard of living cannot be compromised at the expense of other rights,
such as the right to health or the right to education, property, birth or other status as established by human rights
standards. Rights are inherent to all human beings regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any
other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of expression,
the right to work and education, and many more. In essence, the human rights-based approach is the way in which human
rights can be protected in clinical and organizational practice by adherence to the underlying core values of fairness,
respect, equality, dignity and autonomy.
2. Social Justice - is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society. This is measured by the explicit
and tacit terms for the distribution of wealth, opportunities for personal activity, and social privileges. Social justice assigns
rights and duties in the institutions of society, which enables people to receive the basic benefits and burdens of
cooperation, including taxation, social insurance, public health, public school, public services, labor law and regulation of
markets, to ensure fair distribution of wealth, and equal opportunity. It is based on the concepts of human rights and
equality, and can be defined as "the way in which human rights are manifested in the everyday lives of people at every
level of society".
A number of movements are working to achieve social justice in the society. Social justice principles refer to values
“that favor measures that aim at decreasing or eliminating inequity; promoting inclusiveness of diversity; and
establishing environments that are supportive of all people. "The social justice principles include equity, diversity and
supportive environments.

3. Empowerment and Advocacy

Empowerment - Authority or power given to someone to do something. - Seeks to engage local populations in
development projects.
Advocacy - Public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy.
An advocate is someone who provides advocacy support when you need it
Empowerment and advocacy are social democratic practices that enable people to overcome barriers and contribute to
practice a focus on social justice. They enable social workers to help give people chances to better understand and
change their lives. Both are concerned with a shift of power or emphasis towards meeting the needs and rights of
people who otherwise would be marginalized or oppressed.
Social work skills: Empowerment and advocacy. Qualified social workers are expected to have the necessary skills to
empower service users to participate in assessments and decision-making and to ensure that service users have access
to advocacy services if they are unable to represent their own views.
4. Participatory Development - Seeks to engage local populations in development projects.
- A process wherein stakeholders can influence and share control over development.
To give the poor a part in initiatives designed for their benefit in the hopes that development projects will be more
sustainable and successful if local populations are engaged in the development process.
5. Gender Equality also known as sexual equality, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities
regardless of gender, including economic. participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different
behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.
Gender equality is achieved when women and men enjoy the same rights and opportunities across all sectors of society,
including economic participation and decision-making, and when the different behaviors, aspirations and needs of
women and men are equally valued and favoured.
Direction: Read each item carefully and write your answers in 1whole sheet of paper. (copy the questions
and answers)
I. TRUE OR FALSE Direction: True or False. Read and understand the statements below. Write T if
the statement is true and write F if the statement is false.
___1. Social Justice is the reasonable relationship between the individual and society.
___2. Practicing equal treatment to each and every one in a community is an example of existing social
justice.
___3. Enjoying one’s wealth is a form of social justice.
___4. Giving alms to the poor for your political agenda is good practice of social justice.
___5. Having a productive community is the significance of having social justice.
___6. Advocacy and participatory development seek to achieve change within a community

II-Identification
7. Refers to is any activity that increases the understanding, engagement, and empowerment of
communities in the design and delivery of local services.
8.Refers to the fundamental scientific, logical, or moral/ethical “truths” arising from experience,
knowledge, and values on which we base our actions and thinking.
9. Refers to the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender,
including economic. participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors,
aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.
10.Refers to the authority or power given to someone to do something.
11. It is the next level of truths.
12. Refers to public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy.
13. It is a process wherein stakeholders can influence and share control over development.
14. Refers to someone who provides advocacy support when you need it.
15. Refers to social democratic practices that enable people to overcome barriers and contribute to
practice a focus on social justice.

III- Explanation
16. Why values are important in person’s life?
17. Why human rights are universal and inalienable?
18. How can you apply social justice in life?
19. How does gender equality achieved?
20. Why community action is important?