i really immersed

i really immersed

i really immersed

COMMUNITY MAPPING, based on my experience, is a piece of cake.Nah! Just kidding.

We took more than two attempts just to observe our areas on foot, not mentioning the heat of the sun. With a paper and a pen, we manually plotted from Corrales street to Capistrano through the streets Abejuela to Gaerlan.

From the past exercises, I thought this task would be so easy. Yet after we set on foot, I said to my self “this will be a bloody battle”. Community mapping as the firststep to development deserves a lot of patience because it is systematic, manual yet effective non-verbal way of finding out how we view a particular area.

It made me conclude that the exercises under pressure or not were reasonable enough in order for us to be aware and form insights in community mapping.

As long as community people and those concerned will partake in these activities like community mapping, surely, development will be achieved. Thus, community mapping will be applied through minds that understand, hearts that consider, and of course, hands that help. Also through encouraging not only people in position but especially the youths, we might see what is lacking and what we really needed for the improvement of our community.

bahaan nah!

What a surprising start of the year, kagay-anonz ah?

Water symbolizes baptism and rebirth which means troubles will be washed away and conscience will be purified.

But rampaging water in CeeDeeOww? No way! haha
Not just troubles be washed away, but including roofs and cows.. haha toink.
Mabuhay CDO!

eye for an eye, eye for a heart

The "Lansad 2" photo exhibit reminds me of how superior mother nature really is.

While as for the "Mindanao war"photo exhibit, it encouraged me and opened my eyes not only to reality but also to newly felt emotions, and it also flew me into someone else's situation that i might hardly survive.

Thoughts fall into our minds. We can hardly imagine how sometimes mother nature could be so tender but how she could also possibly be so cruel on another time. Photographers, as i was puzzled, really don't mean jokes in their businesses. Now, i feel like i also want to be honored like them.

Photos taken during the Mindanao war surely gave me an apparent sympathy to the innocent people involved.

my MDG

Among the Millennium Development Goals discussed so far, for me, goal 1 should be given the most attention first as for now. It is because I believe that ending hunger and poverty will then make the other 7 goals (Universal Education, Gender Equity, Child Health, Maternal Health, Combat HIV/AIDS, Environmental Sustainability, Global Partnership) eventually develop too.

I feel more sympathetic to the people especially the children who suffer hunger and experience too much poverty than anything else. Honestly, after seeing clips and videos about babies and kids affected of the poverty spreading in the world, you would think you felt your heart twisted strongly.

'Development' in this goal (eradicate extreme poverty and hunger) will take time. But with this goal developed, education can then be easily attained, also with the equality among fellowmen, solutions to health problems and even environmental issues.

Ideas into reality, that's how you define it.