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Community Organizing
Community Organizing
In Partial Fulfilment
Of the Requirements for the Degree
Bachelor of Science in Social Work
Prepared by:
Macaraeg, Jonathan D.
Tamayo, Ailyn O.
Ali, Noriza O.
Submitted to:
AREA/BARANGAY ASSIGNED
BARANGAY HISTORY
Long time ago, before the arrival of the settlers in Dadiangas, Sinawal was purely
inhabited by natives called “B’laans”. The word Sinawal was taken from a “B’laan” Boy
named “Asnawal” who allegedly drowned in the once unnamed river in the place. The
mother with great grief kept on calling for her son aloud, “Asnawal, Asnawal!” The
incidentwas too popular that the natives called the place “Asnawal” and later on
devolved into “Sinawal”, since it was easier for them to pronounce the word.
The arrival of General Paulino Santos and other settlers more than 63 years ago
started civilization and cultural evolution among the tribes. Among the first settlers was
a certain Alberto Olarte who came from Baseo, Spain. Mr. Alberto Olarte married a
b’laan maiden and introduced Christianity in the place. Sinawal’s scenic photography
and hospitable residents attract other tribes to live in the area. Thus, intermarriage took
place, which played a significant role in the civilization of the B’laan. One success story
of intermarriage was the union of the settler from Cebu City, Mr. Bernardino Lozano and
Mariana Olarte, a pioneer B’laan-Spanish of Sinawal. Mr. Bernardino Lozano, the first
“Tinyente Del Barrio” earlier term for Barangay Captain, took courage to educate the
B’laans by teaching them to plow and plant crops and trees instead of hunting and food
gathering. He initiated formal education by donating to a school site in the 1950’s. Since
that time on the Olarte -Lozano clan vowed to uplift the living condition of the B’laans. A
lady descendant of Bernardino Lozano, Sr., Minda Lozano Atendido, married to Mr.
Bobby Atendido, continued the advocacy of her father. She also became a Barangay
Captain, followed by Antonio Olarte. However, ih the 1994 elections, Minda Lozano
Atendido once again won as the Barangay Captain of Sinawal. In the 1997 elections,
Minda Lozano Atendido was re- elected with her son, Richard Lozano Atendido as the
first Kagawad.
In the 1998 Local Elections, Minda L. Atendido was elected as City Councilor leaving
Richard L. Atendido as the Barangay Captain of Barangay Sinawal. During the 2002
elections, Richard L. Atendidowas was re- elected as Barangay Captain of Sinawal up
to June 30, 2007. He was elected as a City Councilor on the May 14, 2007, Local
Elections, leaving his barangay kagwad, Mr. Antonio C. Olarte as the Barangay Captain
of Sinawal by July 01, 2007.Last October 29,2007 elections, Dominador O. Lozano was
elected as the new Barangay Captain replacing Antonio C. Olarte.
From the past years up to the present, Barangay Sinawal has greatly improved
through the struggles of different leaders, all descendants of the Olarte and Lozano
Clan. Each purok was provided with buildings for education, basketball Courts, Day
Care Center, health assistance, accessible farm to market roads electricity and and
other agricultural inputs and can compete with other barangays of General Santos City.
BARANGAY OFFICIALS
Indigenous People
Representative
MISSION
GOALS
BARANGAY PROFILE
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Barangay Sinawal lies between latitudes 6.1327, 125.1082 (6° 8' North, 125° 6'
East)
TOPOGRAPHY
Barangay Sinawal has a good in agriculture because of their fertile soil and This
signifies that the general land is better suited for farming. Rivers and streams serve as
water supplies, ensuring that the crops planted by farmers are increasingly beneficial.
METEOROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
General Santos has a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen climate
classification). With an average annual rainfall of less than 1,000 millimetres (39 in), it is
one of the driest places in the Philippines. Considerably, the climate in Barangay
Sinawal is relatively erratic.
SOIL
The soil exhibits the variability that is inherent in the variable geology of the city.
The rivers and streams in Barangay Sinawal do not erode vertically to any significant
degree but tend to horizontal erosion. The major crops are corn, Coconut and pineapple
plantations are also significant. In addition, lesser amounts of banana, root crops, fruits
and some legumes are produced in Barangay Sinawal.
ETHNIC GROUPS
The ethnic groups of the barangay comprise several kinds of tribes of which the
majority are Blaans. This is followed by the Tausug. Other groups include Cebuano,
Ilonggo, Ilocano, and Muslims.
RELIGION
Residents in the barangay are God fearing people. Each of them have their own
faith and religion. For particulars, Protestants ranks first, followed by Catholics and
Muslims while the rest comprised of Aglipays, Assembly of God, Evangelical, Apostolic,
Baptist and Seventh Day Adventist.
DEMOGRAPHY
Name: SINAWAL
Classification: Rural
No. of Puroks: 8
PUROK PROFILE
GENDER
HISTORY
A long time ago in Barangay Sinawal there was this land area who were lived by the
natives aside from the high land part of the Barangay. Before there were three gates
built, namely: First gate, Second gate and Third gate. Raquenards was known as the
first gate. In 2001, the first gate became part of Barangay Sinawal and was officially
called Purok Raquenards and there is a part of the purok Raquenards called Riverside
because the area is near in the river which is part of the Purok. And they called
Raquenards and Rivernside in one purok.
Raquenards and Riverside is rich in land, the crops will easily grow because of the
nutrients from the fertile soil they have. This is one of the reasons why people chose to
live there because they can have their own business and food to eat. The purok got
more attention from the new settlers, in the present the number of households in purok
Raquenards, Riverside have 92 households having a total population of 219 individuals.
Some people who lived there were not originally from General Santos City, they came
from the different parts of Mindanao and most of them came from Jos Abad Santos,
Davao Occidental. They believed that Purok Raquenards, Riverside is one of the most
accessible places to live in because it was near to their workplace which is DOLE.
There was also a pineapple plantation located before the purok. On 2005 DOLE
Philippines Inc. integrated their plantation in Brgy, Sinawal that gives a great deal of
help to the people of the barangay including the settlers who lived in Purok Raquenards,
Riverside.
ZENAIDA SEWO
Purok Chairwoman
Purok Kagawad
Table 1 shows that the people in Raquenards, Riverside, Barangay Sinawal,
General Santos City in Low Income has the highest total number of 137 and 70 in none
working or having no income. Also, 11 on Medium Income or having capable of buying
things they needed and lastly 0 in high Income.
5%
LEGEND
32%
Low Income
No Income
Medium Income
63% High Income
SOCIAL STATUS
1. Purok Raquenards 1, Riverside is 2 kilometres away from barangay hall of
Sinawal where most of community activities are implemented.
2. The Purok also has church for religious gathering and tradition.
3. The Purok has one whole court. It is not completely made of concrete but still
useful for outdoor activities like basketball and volleyball.
The Purok has designated a Barangay Tanod for the purpose of maintaining the
peace and order. Further, the Sitio Chairman aims to maintain peace and order by
being responsive to the needs of the community such as providing an i-com device as
an alternative way of communication.
Table 2. Tribe
Table 2 shows the number of Tribes in Purok Raquenards, Riverside. Based on
the survey we gathered the total number of Manobo in Purok Raquenards, Riverside
with the total number of is 123, while the Blaan has having 37. Also, other ethinity has a
total number of 37 and Bisaya has a total number of 21 and lastly, Muslim has a totlal
number of 13.
Manobo 123
Blaan 37
Others 25
Bisaya 21
Muslim 13
Total 219
6%
10%
11% LEGEND
56%
Blaan
17%
Others
Bisaya
Muslim
Table 3. Occupation
3%2%2%
13% LEGEND
48% Student/None Work-
ing
Farmer
Vendor
32%
Driver
Mechanic
Infants 16
Toddlers 82
Adult 115
Senior Citizen 6
115
82
16
6
I n fan t s To d d l er s Ad u l t S e n i o r C i ti z e n
Gender
Male 121
Female 98
121
98
m al e fem al e
Married 23
In Common Law partners 56
56
33
m ar r i ed I n C o m m o n L aw p ar t n er s
Number of beneficiaries
62
8
PROBLEM TREE ANALYSIS
W i t h P h i l h eal t h W i t h o u t P h i l h eal t h
Effect
Increase in child
maltreatment, crime
rate, pregnancy, and
exposure to illegal
Less benefits of the drugs. Traditional midwife on
residence giving birth at home.
Low self-esteem or
Increasing of poverty feel emotion such as Improper eight and
shame, fear and height on their age
powerless.
Analysis Causes
The chart shows that the root cause of the problem is no birth Certificate. Birth
registration is an undervalued but critical first step towards safeguarding lifelong
protection and access to rights. It gives people access to basic services such as
education or health care. Those without certificates risk becoming invisible to the state,
at risk of exclusion and exploitation. Many may have difficulties accessing all types of
services. Civil registration certificates establish family ties and track major events of an
individual’s life, from birth to marriage and death, serving as crucial evidence in case of
legal protection.
PROBLEM PRESENTED
The Purok Raquenards 1, Riverside seeks help for their Birth Certification, to
have benefits and be a citizen of General Santos City. In addition, to ease their problem
in Education and health services.
ASSESSMENT STATEMENT
The change potential for community’s problem is possible because there are
agencies that can be tapped to provide the resources they need. The barangay officials
are also approachable and showed their willingness to help the Purok Raquenards 1,
Riverside community. The community leaders are also active and cooperative which
indicates that their problem can be solved through their efforts guided by the interns.
The community has underlying problems caused by their main problem hence
those problems can be solved if given some attention. The community leaders and the
interns can tap some Non-governmental Agencies for partial remedy for some of their
problems like the electricity and need for health services.
PROCESS USED
The interns employed and used Baranganic approach, which starts with a
courtesy call to the barangay leaders to formally perform community organization and
group work in their barangay, discuss the necessary requirements as Social Work
Interns, and choose the area to be conducted and address their pressing issue.
Attendees raise their hands at the general assembly to voice their concerns for
the neighborhood. The BCPC coordinator, the Purok official, and the fourth-year
students assist in grouping the problem statements according to their communalities
and arranging them as to cause and effect relationships to find the core problem.
After doing the problem analysis, the interns formulated an objective, statements
of results or desired conditions, and activities or inputs based on the problem.
The goal of the stakeholder analysis was to pinpoint internal and external
resources that may be used to address the community's needs and issues. Further, it
was decided that community members would work together and cooperatively to
implement the selected project to achieve their goals.
INTERVENTION PLAN
Goal: To help Purok Raquenards 1, Riversideto have a birth certificate so that
they can access to education and health services from March 29 to June 3, 2022.
To have their Conduct Social Work April 07, All people in the
knowledge how seminar Interns, Purok 2023 community of
documents is regarding Chairman, Raquenards 1,
important. importance Barangay Riverside will
of Captain, give
documents Community participation to
like birth and BCPC have their birth
certificate. coordinator certificate
Conduct
General
Assemble
PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
Orientation and Social Work Interns, April 07, 2023 The community Done
seminar Purok Chairman, will gain
regarding Barangay Captain, knowledge and
importance of Community and participate in
documents BCPC coordinator making their birth
certificate
successful
Oplan Birth Social Work Interns, April 24, 2023 They will apply On going
Rights for no Purok Chairman, and get their birth
Birth certificate Community and certificate
BCPC coordinator,
LCR and PSA
Conduct clean Social Work Interns, April 26, 2023 They will have Done
up dive Community and healthy and clean
BCPC coordinator surroundings
Conduct Free Social Work Interns, May 26, 2023 The community Done
check-up for Community, BCPC will know their
the community coordinator and health situation
MMG College
midwiferies
EVALUATION
All services have been completely rendered to the community and all planned
interventions have been successful. The community problem was implemented and
conducted from March 29 to June 03, 2023.
1. After the Social Work Interns gathered information, the necessary document
needed on the processing of no birth certificate in Purok Raquenards 1,
Riverside was presented to the barangay. In addition, the Oplan Birth Rights is
still ongoing since the LCR and PSA is still making it.
2. To properly address the problem of the community the social work interns had a
seminar regarding the importance of birth certification so that they will participate
and have a willingness to cooperate in processing.
3. While waiting for the birth certification of the Purok Raquenards 1, Riverside, the
social work interns initiated to have general cleaning for the said prok, and they
participated in it.
4. With regards to health problems, the social work interns provided free checkup
for the community and all the data gathered in free checkup was endorsed in the
barangay last May 27, 2023.
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PHOTO DOCUMENTATIONS
PROJECT PROPOSAL
I. DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT:
Title of the Project : OPLAN BIRTH RIGHTS
Person/Resources Involved : BCPC coordinator
: Social Work Intern
Participants : 25 participants
Target beneficiaries : Manobo tribe
Location of Project : Barangay Hall, Barangay Sinawal, GSC
Date of Implementation : APRIL 02, 2023
Budget Requirements : 2.615.00
II. Rationale:
The Barangay Social Work Intern together with the Barangay Council for the
Protection of Children will conduct Oplan birth rights for the community of purok river side, it
aims to provide awareness on how documents are important in any transactions.
III. Objectives:
1. To develop participation in the children and mothers to have quality time.
2. To gain knowledge in getting requirements for different purposes.
IV. Budget Breakdown
MATERIALS TO BE UNIT PRICE
PURCHACE
TOTAL
AMOUNT: 2,615
php
V. Recommendation
It is recommended that the Barangay Children Month Celebration will help the parents especially
mother to improved their capacity and ability on raising their own Children in a right health and food.