Facing the Facts: Community Social Issues

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We, Maria Josefina Mariano and Allysa Flores have been studying in St.Scholastica's Academy for a few years now. Since then, we have already been part of the community where our school is located which is in Marikina Heights, Marikina City. We spent most of our time within the vicinity. If we were to describe the barangay, it is not as big as Concepcion, Barangka, and all the other barangays in Marikina. Moreover, some schools are located within and this coming 2018, Malls will also be built. Regardless of how big the barangay is, the local government of Marikina Heights still sustain the needs of the people. They offer range of programs and services for the people, thus they guarantee that the people will be able to receive these.

Recently, we reached out to the barangay officials of Marikina Heights to find out what social problems commonly arise in the community and whether it is necessary that social workers step in to help alleviate these problems.

 The barangay is very worried about the prevalence of dengue infections and the officials have proposed a program that educates the community on dengue prevention and awareness. 

The officials also wish for more gender awareness program training. This program requires social worker because the will be working mostly with women from marginalized communities and part of the worker clientele are displaced, divorced, and pregnant women. 

The barangay wishes to start program training for more fire drills 

as well as more barangay-wide earthquake preparation drill, a necessity of living in Marikina since we are well above the Marikina Fault line. 

The barangay also wishes for a better relief goods distribution system or program during calamities. 

To conclude, these programs and services they want to offer are basically the needs of all people living within the area of Marikina Heights, this would be a achieve with the support and help our the local government. The participation of residents is also needed because to know if the programs or services they offer is effective or not. Moreover, we hope that proposed programs will be done and achieved to fully serve the residents with the certain needs and assistance.