September 30, 2023

Mabini Street
Tagum City
Davao del Norte

To whom it may concern,

I Gwyneth Palatolon, a student of UM Tagum College and is taking the NSTP 1 under
the supervision of Mr. Jonathan Cordovan is writing a Letter of Appeal regarding the
increasing drug growth in our community.

Nowadays, youths are more likely engage with something new for themselves. I’ve
witnessed a hit of drug abuse in our country where it began to have a better awareness
of our country’s current situation. Year’s goes by, more people are getting involved with
drug addiction and most likely a lot of them are victims. What could possibly goes wrong
if this continue to spike our future generations? Think about the lives of every people,
we are born in this planet with a purpose to ourselves and to everyone. We are called
by God and our fate is not just being wasted. We all wish a life that is peaceful and
harmonious and not miserable.

I’ve come to look for ways to lessen the drug problem in our community and grant this
letter of appeal to help the youth who are in need with encouragement and guidance. It
would be a big change to have our youth settled with their goals in life. Give them
medical treatment they deserve, guidance and counselling, give them support by
sending them to rehabilitation centers and lastly, make it more difficult for the youth to
engage with drugs. Drugs are everywhere, illegal and abusive drugs that might kill the
lives of our future generations. We need to discourage everyone, victims, users or
someone who is curious with drugs what is the possible effect of these dangerous drugs
to their lives.

Those are just possible or simplest ways I can give to reach out the drug users and
victims. It’s truly an honor to have you read my letter of appeal. All of this is for the
betterment of every individuals, community, society and our country. Thank you for your
time and consideration.

Sincerely yours,
Gwyneth Palatolon
University of Mindanao Tagum College
Analysis:
1. Does the youth organization in your community participate in activities that
promotes drug prevention? What do they do?
-Yes, the youth organization in our community participate in different kinds of
activities especially the activities which related to drug prevention. Our
community organize some programs like orientations and seminars which are all
related to drug awareness in our community. Also some orientations are held in
schools to aware such youth and educate them the harmful effects of this illegal
drugs.
2. Did you involve yourself in those activities? If not, what hinder you to do so?
-Yes, I do involve myself in this kind of activities in which this helps me to
educate myself and learn the effects of every illegal drugs. In line with this, the
knowledge that I able to learn in this orientations and seminars could be a lesson
also to disseminate information to others who did not attend such activities which
also helps them to gain knowledge despite of unattending such event.
3. If your answer is yes, would you like to do it again? Why?
-Yes, I would gladly like to engage such orientations and seminars again in which
it widened the knowledge I gain from the previous orientations, also I would be
aware on the latest update with the drug prevention of the country and lastly
being able to gain new knowledge and facts of the happenings towards our
country which also helps me to inform others as well in terms of the update of the
drug prevention of the country.
4. Were there instances that your effort as a group were rejected by the community?
How do you feel about it?
-It is often normal to get rejected sometimes where in fact this also helps us to
navigate and prepared ourselves with full efforts ahead of us. It gain us strength
to thrive more harder next time and not being able to being rejected again in our
community.
5. In what else way did you think that you can show your group’s potential to
contribute
to the drug prevention program of your community?
-Being able to educate ourselves more is one of the biggest group potential a
group can get. Education is the most powerful weapon a person can have to
change the whole world. With proper knowledge, trainings, experiences we had
to achieve such potential on ourselves, we could make a difference towards our
community which also creates a big effect towards individuals.