"May humihingi po ng tulong..."
Being an editor-in-chief of a secondary school paper engaged me to numerous community development movements. The articles that every contributing writers submitted were very informative and valuable. We geared our feature stories and monthly news toward small community development, management, service and projects with the aim of enhancing the socio-economic structure and status of our society. Indeed, we were bunch of junior and senior high school students, yet we were very much aware of our social responsibilities.
Continuous research on livelihood programs and clean and green projects were done. Implementation of the said projects, once approved, were then executed by different clubs and school organizations. Some of which are the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of the Philippines. Yes, I know you'll ask.... I was a chief Girl Scout and became an International Girl Guide representative for Asia Pacific. (Just imagine the loads of community service GSP's do! And I so miss those days!) While these small activities were performed by the young ones, community management for peace and order, on the other hand, were usually handled by the elders and the local leaders. Hmmm... So, I thought our "little service" would end once we step out of this pilot school.
Participating actively in any community service was then yielded toward church ministries -- let me clarify that even young people have church ministries and we also did a lot of community service. Now, what is t
This is my community development featured news story.
Due to the increase of crime rate in San Mateo topped by Brgy. Silangan, a proposal to gather community volunteers was then presented to the City Mayor of San Mateo, headed by a young peace and order advocate, my brother - Jazz. The barangay has 22 tanods but were not enough to cover the whole community and only atmost 5 tanod go on duty. Because of this, the municipality mayor decided to have the OPSS in Silangan. What is OPSS - duties and responsibilities: on duty, community surveillance, checking for drug addicts or users around the area. Illegal settlers. Suspicious group of people who roam around the area. They will be accompanied by the OPSS volunteer to a certain house that they will visit to ensure security of the community settlers. OPSS has become very productive. Statistics show that crime rate of Brgy. Silangan is 78% higher compared to the previous decades (robbery, rape, sexual harassment, child abuse, etc.). Now - crime rate is down to 32% come September 2009. The main problem is theft and robbery. Criminals have now engaged in new crime like looking out for the Indian-nationality Lenders commonly known as bombay - 5/6.
OPSS duty: 9Pm- 4:30AM
Curfew: 11 PM - 4:30
Foods and supplies: Foods were supplied by the community association by sponsors and individual donations by families in the community. Leaders and public officials also support these volunteers. There's no specific amount of support received. It varies on the amount collected from the community association.
Scope of coverage and area of responsibility - Gloryville Subd. but in case someone needs assistance from other villages, these volunteers can also rescue. Only this area has an OPSS headquarter or local precinct. The volunteers requested the City Mayor's office for their own precinct and or headquarters. They also requested for uniforms, IDs and without these, a volunteer is not allowed to duty.
Members: The OPSS volunteers started August 29, 2009. Recruitment was done one by one and asked if they can volunteer for the peace and order of the community and others self-volunteered, some were recommended by friends. Anyone can be a volunteer as long as you are of good standing or moral character in the community. They started with 12 members, everyday 12 people are on duty. As time passes by, they expanded and are now 60 members sub-divided into 3 groups (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie). But on Friday-Sunday, everyone is required to go on duty due to higher crime rate during the weekends. These are employed and unemployed volunteers, some have a regular 8-5 job.
The City Mayor has seen how productive these OPSS volunteers are. The Gloryville Subd. unit was the first team to be given a budget for the precinct and HQ materials needed due to their productivity and dedication. The mayor has seen the prompt response and the availability of this people to serve and to rescue in times of natural disasters like typhoon that caused land slides.
OPSS
Barangay Police
Police
There is already a proposal to provide allowances to these volunteers, which we expect to be released January 2009. Each precinct is required to have a deputy who will report all the issues encountered by the group.
Being an editor-in-chief of a secondary school paper engaged me to numerous community development movements. The articles that every contributing writers submitted were very informative and valuable. We geared our feature stories and monthly news toward small community development, management, service and projects with the aim of enhancing the socio-economic structure and status of our society. Indeed, we were bunch of junior and senior high school students, yet we were very much aware of our social responsibilities.
Continuous research on livelihood programs and clean and green projects were done. Implementation of the said projects, once approved, were then executed by different clubs and school organizations. Some of which are the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of the Philippines. Yes, I know you'll ask.... I was a chief Girl Scout and became an International Girl Guide representative for Asia Pacific. (Just imagine the loads of community service GSP's do! And I so miss those days!) While these small activities were performed by the young ones, community management for peace and order, on the other hand, were usually handled by the elders and the local leaders. Hmmm... So, I thought our "little service" would end once we step out of this pilot school.
Participating actively in any community service was then yielded toward church ministries -- let me clarify that even young people have church ministries and we also did a lot of community service. Now, what is t
This is my community development featured news story.
Due to the increase of crime rate in San Mateo topped by Brgy. Silangan, a proposal to gather community volunteers was then presented to the City Mayor of San Mateo, headed by a young peace and order advocate, my brother - Jazz. The barangay has 22 tanods but were not enough to cover the whole community and only atmost 5 tanod go on duty. Because of this, the municipality mayor decided to have the OPSS in Silangan. What is OPSS - duties and responsibilities: on duty, community surveillance, checking for drug addicts or users around the area. Illegal settlers. Suspicious group of people who roam around the area. They will be accompanied by the OPSS volunteer to a certain house that they will visit to ensure security of the community settlers. OPSS has become very productive. Statistics show that crime rate of Brgy. Silangan is 78% higher compared to the previous decades (robbery, rape, sexual harassment, child abuse, etc.). Now - crime rate is down to 32% come September 2009. The main problem is theft and robbery. Criminals have now engaged in new crime like looking out for the Indian-nationality Lenders commonly known as bombay - 5/6.
OPSS duty: 9Pm- 4:30AM
Curfew: 11 PM - 4:30
Foods and supplies: Foods were supplied by the community association by sponsors and individual donations by families in the community. Leaders and public officials also support these volunteers. There's no specific amount of support received. It varies on the amount collected from the community association.
Scope of coverage and area of responsibility - Gloryville Subd. but in case someone needs assistance from other villages, these volunteers can also rescue. Only this area has an OPSS headquarter or local precinct. The volunteers requested the City Mayor's office for their own precinct and or headquarters. They also requested for uniforms, IDs and without these, a volunteer is not allowed to duty.
Members: The OPSS volunteers started August 29, 2009. Recruitment was done one by one and asked if they can volunteer for the peace and order of the community and others self-volunteered, some were recommended by friends. Anyone can be a volunteer as long as you are of good standing or moral character in the community. They started with 12 members, everyday 12 people are on duty. As time passes by, they expanded and are now 60 members sub-divided into 3 groups (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie). But on Friday-Sunday, everyone is required to go on duty due to higher crime rate during the weekends. These are employed and unemployed volunteers, some have a regular 8-5 job.
The City Mayor has seen how productive these OPSS volunteers are. The Gloryville Subd. unit was the first team to be given a budget for the precinct and HQ materials needed due to their productivity and dedication. The mayor has seen the prompt response and the availability of this people to serve and to rescue in times of natural disasters like typhoon that caused land slides.
OPSS
Barangay Police
Police
There is already a proposal to provide allowances to these volunteers, which we expect to be released January 2009. Each precinct is required to have a deputy who will report all the issues encountered by the group.
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