RONDA PALENGKE JOURNEYUP Circle of Industrial Engineering Majors

THE ORGANIZATION

THE CONTEST

WHY FRESH-U WAS MADE?

Give the chance to youth organizations to respond to social change

Provide an avenue for the youth to have their ideas supported and implemented

Empower the youth to become instruments of change in the status quo of the country

Believe that being young is not a hindrance to contribute to the vision of change desired

THE BENEFICIARY

Started with an interview with Barangay Captain Isabelita Gravides last April, 2009

Problems with the community at that time: heat sickness awareness and livelihood

THE BENEFICIARY

Projects that were made out of the needs identified by the head of the community: Heat Sickness Expo and Ronda Palengke

Heat Sickness Expo is an event that brings your health awareness campaign events into your local community.

Ronda Palengke is a livelihood project that aims to address the needs of the community by forming community leaders that would facilitate change through the means of livelihood.

SELECTION OF PROJECT

Since only one project is being asked for by the contest per organization, it has been decided that the one that will be submitted will be the Ronda Palengke Project.

WHY RONDA PALENGKE?

Long-term effect in the community Opportunity to do what has never been done

before Integration of leadership development and

social entrepreneurship Engagement of community members Realization of the real needs of the

community

THE IDEA

Form the community leaders into a livelihood cooperative through personal development, idea development and strategic planning trainings

Know the personal and community visions of the group to form a business model tailor fit for the community

Involve other people in developing the community as a community of cooperation

Link the community to outside stakeholders Provide alternative means of engaging in

livelihood in the community

THE CONTEST PHASE

RockEd interviewed about the feasibility of the project.

How will the organization use the money for the project?

RockEd called almost twice a week to grill the project with questions pertaining to its different aspects.

THE GOOD NEWS

After almost two months of phone and personal interviews, the Ronda Palengke project was announced as one of the five national winners of the Colgate Fresh-U Project.

THE COMMUNITY SELECTION

Since Barangay UP Campus is a rather vast community (consisting of 16 Pooks), it has been decided outright that only one of the smaller communities will be chosen.

Based on the present data, the top two communities considered in terms of the total number of families are as follows: Pook Daang Tubo and Pook Libis

Since Pook Daang Tubo has split communities within the vicinity, due to coordination reasons, Pook Libis became the final recipient community.

THE FIRST INTERVIEWS

Ramil Estrella, the Pook leader, was interviewed about the livelihood situation of the community.

The community already had existing projects that had enabled them to collaborate such as the making athletic nets, selling cooked and processed food, making rags, and selling various merchandise.

THE CONTINUOUS IMMERSIONS

Upon knowing the incumbent officers of the community leadership group, the Ronda team had decided to conduct interviews of the different households to assess the livelihood training climate of the community.

THE CONTINUOUS IMMERSIONS After 3 batches of

interviewees, it has been discovered that people have already engaged in various livelihood trainings, but majority weren’t sustained because of the lack of an efficient following-up method.

THE START-UP

In the middle of immersing the group in the community, the grant was receive 1.5 months after the official media declaration.

Given this, the trainings have been started.

THE TRAINING TOPICS

Personal Visioning Community Visioning Idea Development Project Management Strategic Planning Sales and Marketing Enterprise Planning

TRAINING PICTURES

TRAINING PICTURES

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