DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM INSIGHT

Development can be seen as a process of expanding the freedoms that

people enjoy and if freedom is what development is about, then it makes sense to
concentrate on that rather than on some of the means or instruments of achieving it.
If we talk about freedom and development, it was obvious that this topic is
broad since there are so many kinds of freedom that leads to development.
There are five (5) distinct types of freedom;
1. Political Freedom- this includes civil right; we all know that we have a
freedom of political expressions, we have all the rights and freedom to
choose who we would want to govern in our country. We also have the
freedom to criticize and scrutinize authorities.
2. Economic facilities- people have a freedom or opts to utilize economic
resources for the purpose of consumption or production or exchange.
3. Social opportunities- this means that people will have a freedom to avail
the opportunities in education, health care, etc.; to help them live better.
4. Transparency guarantees- the openness that people can expect when
dealing with one another protective security.
5. Protective Security- to prevent people on the verge of vulnerability from
succumbing to deprivation.
The above mentioned freedom, if it given to us individuals, we can really see
the development in it. For freedom is very essential to development. As a social
worker, I can cite an example not in a broad definition of it but it’s in a narrow way.
First, our mission is to empower the community and for us to deliver/ accomplished
this mission, we have to encourage them to speak and discover things. So by
encouraging, we are giving them the freedom and the right to express themselves;
and by expressing themselves is a development not just for us but also for them
individually.
Therefore, I conclude how important a freedom is, in order to obtain the
development not just in our society but also to us individuals because this must start
in our own self. We cannot move or we cannot stay dependent to others but by
acquiring freedom, we can discover more, by experience new things, doing things
we don’t do before, finding a solutions in every problems and challenges and
learning in every failure and finally if we surpassed all this, this must be a total
development.

Alberto P. Mestidio I
BSSW - 1