This document provides information and activities about identifying needs during a disaster or pandemic. It includes objectives, materials, and information about common needs like basic necessities, health services, and communication. The activities guide students to create a list of emergency contacts, discuss common needs, and identify the specific needs of family members and where to seek help. The goal is for students to learn how to assess needs and find support systems to address them.

1. OPENING PRAYER

2. Identifying and
Addressing Needs
Module III

3. Objectives
• To identify one’s current needs and those of one’s
family
• Become aware of the various institutions,
departments and centers present within the
school environment or the immediate community
• Take note of the important numbers and
information regarding who to approach for their
needs

4. Materials/Handouts
• List of Emergency Contact Numbers and
Information: This should be filled out by the
teacher before the start of the session
• List of needs during a pandemic and how to access
them
• Pens or Pencils
• Handout: Needs Form

5. Regardless of the type of disaster or pandemic, people who are
affected often need help
in the following: Frequent Needs (WHO et al., 2011)
• Basic needs: food, shelter, water, clean toilets
• Health services for those who are ill and injured (and for those who
seem to be suffering from anxiety, trauma and depression)
• Simple and correct information about the event, loved ones and
services available for them
• Access to cell phones, internet, email in order to contact loved ones
and other sources of social support
• Being consulted about major decisions that will directly affect their
lives (e.g., being transported to
another province, moving to a bunk house, etc.)
Additional Information on Psychological First Aid (PFA)

6. It cannot be assumed that just because students are at home then all their
basic needs have been met. It is essential to have a venue where students
can express their needs and see how the school can help them access
these. As a teacher, you will need the important contact numbers
beforehand in order to know where to link students who need help. List
this information down on the table provided in the following page. Please
note that this is just a sample. You may change the items as needed.

7. Activity 1
• Show the sheet called List of Emergency Contact Numbers
and Information. Ensure that the sheet is properly filled out
by the teacher. A copy of this sheet should be shown during
class time or the teacher can provide a link where the
students can get this information from.
• Say: I want to show you a list of emergency contact numbers
that I want you to take note of or you may want to take a
screenshot with your phone. (Give them time to copy or take a
photo). Let us all discuss first what these offices do. (Teacher
explains how each office can help).
• Say: Please save the screenshot on your phone or if you listed
the numbers down, please tape it to any part of your house so
that it can easily be seen by everyone.

8. Activity 2
• Show this list of common needs of survivors after a disaster and discuss with
the class.
• Say: Take a look at the common needs of survivors after a disaster or
pandemic. Do you think it is complete? What other needs should be on the
list? Take a look at this list of needs of people during a pandemic and how to
access them. Let’s discuss these for a while.
• Please get a piece of paper and make three columns (you can show an
example). On the first column, list down all the members of the family whom
you live with. On the second column, identify the immediate needs of this
person that your family cannot address as of this moment. On the third
column, identify where you can refer this person to or who you can approach
in order to ask for help regarding the needs of this person. If you do not
know anyone who can help that person, just leave it blank first.
(Give them time to do this)

9. • How many of you know who to refer your loved ones to for their
needs? May I know what these needs are and who you are going to
refer your loved ones to? (Please commend them for knowing whom
they could approach in times of need).
• Can we talk about what you think your own needs are? Who can
you approach in order to address your own needs? Why do you
think it is important for all of you to learn about whom you can go
to for your own needs and the needs of your family?
• Acknowledge them for having good support systems and for
knowing who to link themselves or their family members to.
Activity 2

10. ABSTRACTION
• Say: Can some of you share with us stories that
show how at times, even these linkages cannot do
their responsibilities efficiently? Why do you think
these groups had a hard time? Can you also tell
me some great or good stories about how other
groups were able to help you very well?

11. APPLICATION
• Say: Now that you know how to LINK, can you tell me
how you will apply this new knowledge to your life right
now?
• Listen to their answers and acknowledge them.

12. CLOSING
• Ask students to come up with a chant or cheer after that
activity. It should be a chant that will remind them to
find people/organizations to help them/their loved ones
address their most pressing needs.

13. List of Emergency Contact Numbers
and Information
Organization Contact # and Address Contact Person
Barangay Health Office
Barangay Disaster Team
DSWD office
Hospital
Psychologist or Social Worker
Covid Screening Center
Your School

14. List of Common Needs of Survivors
after a Disaster or Pandemic
General To find missing family members, to provide medical
assistance to those who
were hurt, to gain access to list of casualties, to know how
many were affected, to provide proper burial facilities for
those who have passed on
Food and Water To provide waterline to homes, to gain access to source of
water for multiple
purposes, food for x number of days
Family Goods Blankets, clothes, beddings, tarp, flashlight, storage boxes,
underwater,
dignity kits, disinfectants/alcohol
Fuel For vehicle, gas for cooking, for kerosene lamps
Shelter
Temporary shelter, building materials to be used for
repairs

15. List of Common Needs During a Pandemic and
how to access them
Relief Goods
To receive relief goods and
“ayuda” or from the Barangay level, City Mayor, and
DSWD.
Selling of Product and
Goods
Is your family involved in selling some products or
goods? They too, need to get
permits to travel and to sell their basic goods and
commodities. Go to your Barangay Center to issue the permit.
Transportation within your
area
If you need to travel within your area of vicinity, go to your
Barangay Center
and ask
for permission to go to a Grocery Store, Market place,
Supermarket or Pharmacy store. A quarantine pass is issued
by your Barangay. Wearing face-mask is always needed.

16. Transportation outside
your city or
municipality
Go to your Barangay Center to
get a travel pass that will allow you to pass major
thoroughfares. Make sure you are Covid-free. Make
sure also that you wear your face-mask. They also
provide you with vehicles.
Cash Assistance or Social
Amelioration Program
(SAP)
The DSWD releases cas
h amounts in three tranches to poor but deserving
families.
Contact your local DSWD.
Cash Assistance to OFW Overseas Foreign Workers (OFW) may avail of
Government Cash Aid by the DOLE
and workers who have been displaced due to Pandemic.

17. Needs Form
Family/Relative/Friend Current Immediate
Need
Refer to

18. CLOSING PRAYER