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Lesson 2 THE COMMUNITY

The document defines a community as a group of families and individuals settled in a contiguous geographic area with shared customs, traditions, and language. A community possesses elements like history, resources, technology, values, and goals. Communities can be classified by interest, place, practice, or circumstance. The purpose of community organizing is to transform complacent communities into empowered entities through educating people, organizing collective action, and mobilizing communities to address needs and solve problems. Community organizing in the Philippines was introduced in the 1970s and continued during martial law, with the goals of improving quality of life, empowering people, and social transformation.

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Lesson 2 THE COMMUNITY

The document defines a community as a group of families and individuals settled in a contiguous geographic area with shared customs, traditions, and language. A community possesses elements like history, resources, technology, values, and goals. Communities can be classified by interest, place, practice, or circumstance. The purpose of community organizing is to transform complacent communities into empowered entities through educating people, organizing collective action, and mobilizing communities to address needs and solve problems. Community organizing in the Philippines was introduced in the 1970s and continued during martial law, with the goals of improving quality of life, empowering people, and social transformation.

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THE COMMUNITY

The term community was actually derived from the Latin


word, communis, a noun describing quality implying
“fellowship, community of relations and feelings”.

One of the most common and simplest definitions was coined


by R. M. McIver. According to McIver, a community is:
“an aggregation of families and individuals settled in a fairly
compact and contiguous geographical area, with significant
elements of common life, as shown by manners, customs,
traditions and modes of speech.”
Elements that a community may
posses are the following
• HISTORY
From public documents, folk history,
historical roots
• SPACE RELATIONS
Internal Relation: Relation within the
community
• EXTERNAL RELATION
Relation with other communities,
nation and state
• RESOURCES
Human, man-made and natural
• TECHNOLOGY
Modern or indigenous; the technical
know-how of the people
• KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEFS
• VALUES AND SENTIMENTS
• GOALS
• NORMS
Classification of every type of community by
the purpose that brings them together.

• Interest. Communities of people who share the same


interest or passion.
• Action. Communities of people trying to bring about
change.
• Place. Communities of people brought together by
geographic boundaries.
• Practice. Communities of people in the same
profession or undertake the same activities.
• Circumstance. Communities of people brought
together by external events/situations.
• POSITION AND ROLES
Elected or not elected
• POWER
• LEADERSHIP
• INFLUENCE
• SOCIAL RANK
standing of a person in a
group
• REWARD AND PUNISHMENT
TYPES OF COMMUNITIES
• GEOGRAPHICAL COMMUNITIES
Has boundaries, territories
• RURAL/URBAN COMMUNITIES
The traditional way of classifying
communities
• SECTORAL COMMUNITIES
e.g. :Women, Youth, Farmers,
Fisher folks
• FUNCTIONAL COMMUNITIES
Groups of people who share
some common interests or
functions
• TRIBAL/INDIGENOUS
COMMUNITIES
e.g.: Aetas, Mangyans
• SPECIAL TYPES OF
COMMUNITIES
e.g.: disabled, parishes,
families
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

• “Community Organizing is a systematic,


planned and liberating change process of
transforming a complacent, deprived and
malfunctioning community into an organized,
conscious, empowered and self-reliant, just
and humane entity and institution.” [-
Philippine Business for Social Progress
(PBSP)]
Community Organizing (CO) is a
continuous process of:
• Educating the people to understand
their critical consciousness of their
existing conditions
• Organizing people to work collectively
and efficiently on their problems;
• Mobilizing people to develop their
capability and readiness to respond
and take action on their immediate
needs towards solving their long term
problems. [-UP College of Social Work
and Community Development]
• Collectively, the above-mentioned definitions
suggest that Community Organizing (CO) is
both a process and a method. CO is a process
in the sense that it is perceived as a
progressive and forward movement from one
condition to another. It is also considered as a
method because it consists of a dynamically
conscious and deliberate undertaking to bring
about social change.
A BRIEF HISTORY:
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION IN THE
PHILIPPINE SETTING
• Through the Philippine Ecumenical Council for
Community Organization (PECCO), Community
Organizing was introduced in the Philippines during
the First Quarter Storm of the seventies. The group
organized communities in the Tondo area where the
program, Zone One Tondo (ZOTO) was born. The
program was replicated in other parts of the
Philippines, including the rural areas and was
usually introduced through church structures.
•
• Organizing efforts continued even when the
Martial Law was declared. During this time,
Community Workers began pushing for
people’s participation and community
organizing became the tool for achieving this.
International Development Groups and
government both began to support and fund
Community Organizing Programs.
Community Organizing began to proliferate.
GOALS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
• Community Organizing transforms a
complacent community to become self-
propelling and self - nourishing.
 IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE
PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND
MOBILIZATION
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY
ORGANIZING
• “Go to the People, Live Among the People”
• “Learn, Plan and Work with the People”
• Start With and Build on What the People
Know”
• “Teach By Showing, Learn by Doing”
• “Not Piecemeal but an Integrated Approach”
“Not Relief, But Release”.

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