COMMUNITY

ENGAGEMENT,
SOLIDARITY
AND
CITIZENSHIP
Mr. Daniel Fernandez
Opening Prayer
Checking of Attendance
 Objectives:
Objective Objective

recognizes the
value of shows the impact
undertaking of community
community action action to the lives
modalities. appreciates the within a
importance of community.
community
engagement,
solidarity, and
citizenship as part
of community
action

Objective
Community
action
(Overview)
 Community
Action

Community
Solidarity Citizenship
Engagement
 “Photo Analysis”
Observe the pictures and answer
the following questions.
1. What is the message being conveyed by the
photos?
2. Did the actions of different people in the pictures
affect you as an individual? Why?
3. As a student, how can you show your active
involvement in your community?
 As an individual, we are always
connected and tied up to our
community.
We tend to make actions not just
individually but collectively to
respond to the problem we
INTERRELATIONSHIP encounter.
 Ask yourself:

 What motivates me?

 Why am I participating?
 What do I want to achieve?
 How will I react to different people and situations?
 How committed am I?
 How much am I willing to do?
It is essential to note the value
of solidarity in undertaking
community action.

It is the one that will unify your

interest to help with what the
community wants to attain.
 To show solidarity in the community, here
are some of the roles you can have to
involve yourself:
 Get involved in planning processes like creating
goals or defining the problem.
 Donate money or help out with a fundraising effort.
 Volunteer to staff the office, answer phones, put
together mass mailings, or make phone calls.
 Doing research, writing grant proposals, or handling
correspondence.
 To show solidarity in the community, here
are some of the roles you can have to
involve yourself:

 Attend public events like community hearings, or

fundraising events.
 Serve on committees that focus on specific
problems or activities.
 Take leadership roles in a community partnership.
 Two Important Ways To Involve People:

 listen to them so that you have a

better understanding about the
causes of the problem.

 they can become involved through

participation in the program
initiatives that are being developed
by empowering them to tackle the
problems they confront.
 Volunteerism

 is a basic expression of human

relationships.

 It is about people’s need to participate in

their societies and to feel that they
matter to others.
 Assessment
Read and understand the following
questions or statements and
choose the letter of the correct
answer.
1. It refers to the basic expression of human
relationship where people see the need to participate
in their societies and to feel that they matter to
others.

a. Volunteerism b. Unity
c. Citizenship d. Community Action
2. Which of the following shows an interrelationship of self
and the community?
a. An individual who does not have regard for community
activities.
b. A pessimistic attitude because people are always too
busy to get involved in the community.
c. People rely in the government and private institutions’
effort to help resolve community problem.
d. An individual who understands the situation of the
community and has the urgency to participate.
3. Which of the following situations best describe how to
involve people affected by the problem in the community?
a. Listen to them carefully so that you have a better
understanding of the causes of the problem.
b. Disregard their opinion about the crisis encountered by
the community since you have the expertise to resolve
their community problem.
c. Pushing to implement a project even without the consent
of the majority.
d. Conducting meetings and events that occupy the
community members work hours.
4. Why is there a need to involve ourselves with community
action?
a. So that people would praise us with our program
initiatives and accomplishments.
b. We are part of a community which directly experiencing
the problem and we have civic obligation to be involved.
c. The community requires us to participate and there is no
room for us to disobey.
d. To build our credibility in organizing community actions.
 Activity
Choose a quotation from the
internet and relate it to your role
and responsibility in community
action.
Thank you for listening!