KABALIKAT NG BARANGAY

ROWENA M. SANTOS

Outreach projects are essential in community building which has a direct and fundamental impact on the learners the school caters to as holistic provider of responsible, productive, and proud citizens of the country. Moreover, community projects such as Kabalikat ng Barangay Year which lends itself in the promotion of sustainable and practical livelihood trainings serve as avenue between the now and the promising future for the participants, as well as, a rich and valuable ground for different stakeholders to take part on the beauty and logic of community involvement and dispensation of social responsibility.

Kabalikat ng Barangay Year was an outreach project with a long-term goal designed to teach the participants the ability to sail through the economic challenges they might be experiencing in the present and could be traversed, more than just survived, with the newly-acquired product development skill aimed by the project.

The major components: entrepreneurial training based on product knowledge and technical skills on paper quilling, dishwashing, fabric conditioner, perfume making, seminar on how to start a small scale business and gift giving in cooperation with community leaders. As of the bottom line, both of the components were meant to help the participants to be productive for sustainable community and family building.

The mentioned outreach program have the following objectives:

1. Increase awareness and interest in acquiring entrepreneurial skills and livelihood.

2. Apply knowledge and trainings in actual business processes and scenarios. 3. Prepare learners for future sustainable and growing entrepreneurship. 4. Provide source of income to trainable parent and deserving learners. 5. Strengthen community and school linkages.

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I at Dapdap High School, Dapdap Bamban, Tarlac

The author is Master Teacher