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Social Media Affecting The Student’s Men-
tal Health During Pandemic

How Does Filipino Families Cope Up with

Poverty and Economic Stress

The Effects of Community Pantry in Iligan

City
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 Social media has a reinforcing nature. Using it activates the brain’s reward
center by releasing dopamine, a “feel-good chemical” linked to pleasurable
activities such as sex, food, and social interaction. The platforms are designed
to be addictive and are associated with anxiety, depression, and even physical
ailments. This puts a large amount of the population at an increased risk of
feeling anxious, depressed, or ill over their social media use.

But what makes users come back for more even when it can literally make
them feel sick? To boost self-esteem and feel a sense of belonging in their
social circles, people post content with the hope of receiving positive
feedback. Couple that content with the structure of potential future reward,
and you get a recipe for constantly checking platforms tend to make
comparisons such as, “Did I get as many likes as someone else?,” or “Why
didn’t this person like my post, but this other person did?” They’re searching
for validation on the internet that serves as a replacement for meaningful
connection they might otherwise make in real life.
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Across the region, considerable inequality exists between wealth groups: better-off household earn between three
and nine times as much as the very poor households. Compared to the better off households, the poorest households
have little in the way of income, assets and livelihood options: they have little to no access to land which is a key
determinant of wealth and vulnerability in agriculture zones, limited access to (fair) credit and savings mechanisms,
and precarious livelihood strategies which depend largely on unreliable casual labour and to a lesser extent on
income from work migration. The poorest households are more vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks:
because of their limited coping capacity due to their lack of savings and assets, the region’s
frequent climatic and economic shocks hit the poorest households in the region hardest. In times of stress, poor
households are likely to use coping strategies such as removing children from school, taking high-interest or
unfavorable loans, which can have negative effects on children’s access to food, education, a safe environment, and
items essential for their wellbeing. In some livelihood zones, children in poorer households are more likely to be
engaged in harmful child labor in order to contribute economically to the household’s income.

• Women in particular face challenges in accessing sufficient food and income, which limits households’
overall food and income levels and their ability to invest in their children. Women have fewer
livelihood options than men because they face more social and cultural restrictions. Across the
livelihood zones, women tend to have limited skills, literacy and mobility compared to men. In the rural
areas where women do engage in paid work, the work is limited to short periods throughout the
year or they are paid less per day than men doing the same job. In urban areas, women may work
long hours in factories without maternity benefits.
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Pantry in Iligan City

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In the past week, little charitable grocery booths have sprouted on street corners
and alleys all over the Philippines, offering free food to needy people and
soliciting donations from anyone willing to give them, as many families in the
country go hungry during the extended COVID-19 lockdown.
“Give what you can afford, take what you need,” read the signs on each booth,
which organizers call “community pantry”.

The movement, helped along by social media, has gone viral in the archipelago,
whose economy now languishes because of the pandemic.

Passersby initially hesitated to take stuff from the cart – it seemed too good to be
true, and the needy tend to be ashamed of their poverty. Non had to assure them
there was no catch, and they really did not have to pay for what they would take.
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