COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT

Explanation: Matching Grant applications requesting US$25,001 or above must

include a community needs assessment. Please provide detailed answers to the
following questions. The boxes will expand as you type. Attach this completed form
to the Matching Grant application.

1. Name of the Community:

 The Aeta community

2. Describe the benefiting community. Include any relevant statistics as well as

geographic and demographic information about the community.
 live in the northern part of the Philippines on the island of Luzon. Historians and
anthropologists debate precisely when and how they migrated here, the
consensus being that they crossed from the island of Borneo between 20 and 30
thousand years ago, using a land bridge that was partially covered by water
around 5,000 years ago

3. What community needs were identified?

 When we visited their community, they relied solely on solar energy to generate
power because they lived in a mountainous area without access to power, the
internet, or mobile phone signals. Additionally, they lack transportation, making
it challenging for them to confront studies when it comes to instructing. They
were also far from the city, where they actually worked as farmers and small-
time vendors.

4. What is already being done to respond to the need(s)?

 We went there and gave them what we could. We gave them food, especially
canned foods that are simple to eat or other foods that don't require a lot of
effort. We also provided them with clothing and other comforting items.

5. What resources are available locally to help meet the needs(s)?

 the vegetables they cultivated, in order to farming and selling them normally
around our city. In fact, their cultures, which are very prevalent, the brooms
they create, and how they interact with us while showing us about their
neighborhood.