1. Waste management is an example of a problem and concern in our community.

1. Seminars and workshops are used.

• Not everyone is aware of how to assist and resolve community concerns and challenges.
• Through lectures and trainings. We can simply reach out to individuals and establish
campaigns to urge them to work together to solve community concerns and difficulties.
• We can educate individuals about difficulties and challenges in the community through
trainings and seminars, and we can also collect ideas from them that would be useful in solving
the problems.

Dissemination of digital information

• Due to the advent of digital technology, social media and other gadgets are becoming the
most effective means of informing the public about community concerns. The benefits of a
digital campaign are as follows:
• It has the potential to raise community awareness and reach those who are utterly
uninformed of the problem that has to be addressed and the solutions that must be provided.
• We may employ media campaigns at any moment to try to persuade the public to participate
in new interventions.

hat real-life experiences have you gained after a particular community engagement?

Last Christmas, I had an opportunity to participate in a community engagement where we gave some

gifts to the trash collectors, also known as "mangangalakal" in our Barangay. We also performed as choir
and sang Christmas hymns to edify and uplift their souls. It was such a wonderful experience because I
saw the joy and happiness in the eyes of those people, even though the gifts that we offered them are
not that much in value. I've learned in another perspective the importance of being grateful in
everything that we have. I've also realized that God is willing to accept any offer that we have, no matter
how little or big that offer is, as long as it is your best. God will accept your offer and will fill out any
shortcomings that you may have.

2. Maybe in the fact that I relied on myself only. Never asked for help, for a quick way
out, an explanation of another person in regards to what I need to know to do XYZ. I
took information from everywhere, in every way I could, be it books, the internet,
forums, Reddit, and tried my own attempt to understand it and translate it for myself
to the skill that I was after. Usually, that brought a lot of “unnecessary’ info. It was
off-putting at first. But soon I realised that this “unnecessary’ info at one point or
another turned out to be damn good to have.
I don’t know really whether this is what developed my cognitive learning, but out of
all things, the fact of relying on my own brain input and output alone and doing the
best I could at the moment were and still are probably the most important factors.