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    Religion teaches kindness, but social work was developed because religions alone could not help people in need. In the Philippines, social work is greatly needed due to suffering under colonial powers and the Marcos regime. This caused not just physical but mental trauma, like for families of the disappeared. While social work began linked to religion, Filipinos realized they required assistance beyond the soul. Western social work emphasized both physical and mental health needs. This training in mental health will be important during the pandemic, as Filipinos face anxiety over its uncertain duration and impact. Social workers must help not just cities but also vulnerable rural and indigenous communities with limited awareness or access to health care. Improving social welfare should be prioritized during and

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    Religion teaches kindness, but social work was developed because religions alone could not help people in need. In the Philippines, social work is greatly needed due to suffering under colonial powers and the Marcos regime. This caused not just physical but mental trauma, like for families of the disappeared. While social work began linked to religion, Filipinos realized they required assistance beyond the soul. Western social work emphasized both physical and mental health needs. This training in mental health will be important during the pandemic, as Filipinos face anxiety over its uncertain duration and impact. Social workers must help not just cities but also vulnerable rural and indigenous communities with limited awareness or access to health care. Improving social welfare should be prioritized during and

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    Religion teaches kindness, but social work was developed because religions alone could not help people in need. In the Philippines, social work is greatly needed due to suffering under colonial powers and the Marcos regime. This caused not just physical but mental trauma, like for families of the disappeared. While social work began linked to religion, Filipinos realized they required assistance beyond the soul. Western social work emphasized both physical and mental health needs. This training in mental health will be important during the pandemic, as Filipinos face anxiety over its uncertain duration and impact. Social workers must help not just cities but also vulnerable rural and indigenous communities with limited awareness or access to health care. Improving social welfare should be prioritized during and

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    Chelsea Joy M.

    Ganan BS SW 2-1 Social Environment and Social Work

    Pleh

    Religion teaches us to be good people the very focus of all religions in the world is to
    help those who are in need. Religion was also the basis of SOCIAL WORK, for example in the
    Philippines during the Spanish Era we have this practice in the church that was called
    “Indulhensya” where the Filipinos give money to the church to save their soul and the church
    promises that this money would go to the people who needs it, but that wasn’t true. It made me
    realize that you can be part of the church, but can’t practice the basic of kindness. That’s why I
    think Social Work was invented, for religion itself cannot help people.
    In the Philippines Social Work is really needed because we have suffered from a lot.
    From the sufferings from the Spain to the tragedies we encountered during the Marcos Regime.
    Filipinos needed help not only physical help, but most importantly mental help for one cannot
    just sleep and forget their traumas. Imagine the families of those “Desaparasidos” during the
    Marcos Regime their family member just vanished and never came back how can they move on
    to something they didn’t even know what happened. Social Work started in the Philippines just
    based on religion, but because the Filipinos suffered a lot they realized it’s not the only thing that
    they need. It’s not only the soul who needs to be saved.
    Western Social Work taught us not to only focus on what the body needs, but also what
    the mental health needs. I think that is the best that we have learned from western social work
    that was also the time that we have built associations for social work. This need for mental health
    help would be needed during this time of Pandemic. Filipinos are anxious nowadays because we
    don’t know when will be this stop. The sad truth about Covid 19 in the Philippines is that now
    we are not putting efforts on how we can combat the virus, we are just simply learning how to
    live with it.
    Social workers in this time of pandemic should not only focus on the people in the cities,
    but also those people in rural areas for they are the ones that couldn’t seek help for their mental
    and physical health. The associations should conduct charities that would help those in the
    provinces especially those indigenous people because I’m sure not all of them are aware that
    there is a virus that is slowly killing the population of the Filipino people.

    Social Welfare will be prioritized during and after pandemic, it should be. Everyone saw
    how helpless the Filipinos are during this pandemic. The government should prioritize the social
    welfare of the Filipinos and not the dolomite sand in manila bay for no mental health problem
    could be solved by this sand.

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