NSTP Lecture 1 Community Extension .pptx

NSTP 2:
NATIONAL SERVICE
TRAINING PROGRAM 2
L1: Understanding the Role of NSTP
in Community Development

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
 A process where people come together to take action on
what’s important to them.
 The process of improving the quality of life in a
community through collective efforts.
 Fundamentally based on the values of human rights,
social justice, equality and respect for diversity.

In practice,
 Supports communities, of place and identity, to use their
own assets to improve the quality of community life.
 Helps communities and public agencies to work together
to improve services and the way in which decisions are
made.

The principle which underpins its practice are:
 Self-determination. People and communities have the
right to make their own choices and decisions
 Empowerment. People should be able to control and
use their own assets and means to influence

The principle which underpins its practice are:
 Collective action. Coming together in groups or
organizations strengthens peoples’ voices.
 Working and learning together. Collaboration and
sharing experiences in vital to good community activity.

NSTP
National Service Training Program
 Designed for the tertiary level students, amending Republic Act
No. 7077 Presidential Decree No. 1706 for the purpose of
enhancing civic consciousness and defense preparedness in
the youth by developing the ethics of services and patriotism.
The role of NSTP and NSTP students to promote and carry out
the NSTP goal in a particular community to attain better life and
healthy environment which is the main aim and mission of every
higher education institution and the so called sustainable
community.

Performing community service is a worthy endeavor
that brings people and communities closer together
and improves the wellness of those volunteering their
time and effort.
-by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D

IDEAS FOR HELPING YOUR COMMUNITY
 Reach out to a neighbor. Every neighborhood has
people or families in need, from elderly or handicapped
shut-ins to struggling single-parent households.
 Perform an act of random kindness. Buy healthy
snacks for your office or the teachers at your child’s
school. Pay the tolls for several people behind you. Give
an umbrella to someone stuck in the poring rain.

 Mentor Children at your local school, library, or
neighborhood center. All organizations that deal with
children need adults of any age to work with the children
variety of ways, from after-school tutoring to recreational
and sports activities.
 Serve at a local soup kitchen or food bank. There is
no greater gift than helping feed those in your
community who are down on their luck and would go
hungry if not for the service provided to them.

 Donate blood. You can help save the life of one or
more people simply by giving a print of your blood at
your local blood bank or during bloodmobile visits to
your community, school, or office.
 Volunteer at the local animal shelter, rescue group,
or humane society. The animals are part of our
communities too, and many of these shelters and
rescue organizations need much help to achieve their
missions.

 Visit a volunteering-related Website to find multiple
opportunities to serve. One of the greatest benefits of
the Internet is the amount of Websites that can help
connect people with local organizations that desperately
need help.

 Pick a trash along the road, at a local park, or along
the banks of a river, stream or lake. Many times there
are organized efforts to clean some of these locations,
but there is nothing stopping us from picking up lotter
when we see it. And smokers? Put the butt in the trash
not on the ground.

 Help build a home with Habitat for Humanity.
Working with Habitat not only literally builds the
community, but also helps welcome a needy family who
would not have a home without the help from people in
the community. No building skills are necessary to
volunteer.

 Contact your local barangay health workers, Red
Cross or DSWD for discovering new service
opportunities. These and other local aid organizations
are clearing houses for many opportunities to serve in
your local community, making a difference in the lives of
your neighbors.

FINAL THOUGHTS ON COMMUNITY SERVICE
Everyone can be great because anyone can serve.
You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You
don’t even have to make your subject and verb agree
to serve... You only need a heart full of grace. A soul
generated by love...
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is one of the most beautiful compensation of this life
that no man can sincerely try to help another without
helping himself..
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Living is the art of Loving. Loving is the art of caring.
Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else.
-Booker T. Washington

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I
do know: the only ones among you who will be really
happy are those who have sought and found how to
serve.
-Albert Schweitzer

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are
connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along
these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes
and return to us as results.
-Herman Melville

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever
wasted.
-Aesop

YOUR TURN NOW!
Case Study: Successful NSTP Community Project
Title of Project: _______________________________
Location: ____________________________________
Objectives: __________________________________
Key Activities:_________________________________
Impact:________________________________________

After the verb “To Love”.... “To Help” is the most
beautiful verb in the world.
-Bertha Von Suttner

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