This document discusses empowering youth in the Philippines. It defines youth as those aged 15-30 years old. Empowering youth is important for poverty eradication through skill development and education, good governance through leadership skills and willingness to take risks, and crime reduction by providing skills and differentiating right from wrong. Pictures show elements of youth empowerment like leadership, volunteerism, and community involvement. Students are assigned to think of ways to address issues like waste management as SK chair, help schoolmates in the new normal as student president, and recommend a youth program to help others grow as Christians during the pandemic.

1. Week 8 Phil Pol Gov
February 23, 2021
MR. MICHAEL M. ISIDORO

2. Activity #1: Picture Analysis
• Share your personal opinion on the
following picture
GUIDE QUESTIONS
1. Based on the pictures, what are the
roles of Filipino citizen?
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3. Guide Questions:
1. What is the main advocacy of the
speech?
2. Are you familiar with the speaker?
3. Do you agree with what she is fighting
for?

5. Youth
 “Youth is the time of life when one
is young, and often means the
time between childhood and
adulthood” (Macmillan Dictionary
2013)
 According to Republic Act 8044,
they are sector of the population
from the age of fifteen (15) to
thirty (30) years.

6. Empowering Youth
young people today will determine the
prospects for sustainable development and
peace
 political actors, innovators,
entrepreneurs and peacebuilders.

7. ESSENTIALS OF YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
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Poverty eradication:
 skill development
 contribute to the increase in employability
Good education standard:
 understand the importance of education
 empowered youth can donate educational facilities to primary,
secondary and even to tertiary institutions
Good governance:
 willingness to take risks, which helps in the development of leadership
skills.
 to build a better tomorrow, we need to nurture the adolescents of
today
Crime reduction:
 necessary skill to sustain a livelihood, preventing him to adopt the path
of crime
 enables a young mind to differentiate the wrong from the right,
denouncing the path of injustice for a respectable living.

8. Analyze the given pictures, and identify
the element of Youth Empowerment:
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9. Activity: Situation Analysis
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1. You are the chairman of Sangguniang
Kabataan (SK) in your barangay, what are
you going to do with the solid waste
management problem in your
community?

10. Activity: Situation Analysis
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2. As President of the Supreme Student
Government, how are you going to help
your schoolmates in this new normal
situation?

11. Activity: Situation Analysis
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3. If you are part of a religious youth
organization, during this pandemic, what
program will you recommend which will
help other youth grow and become a
better Christian?

12. Complete the given phrase below:
“I AM AN EMPOWERED YOUTH BECAUSE….”

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14. ASSIGNMENT:
Research in the internet one Filipino youth who is
an epitome of leadership and shared his/her skills
to provide comfort to the Filipinos during this
pandemic. Write your answer on a word document
and upload it in the Google Classroom.

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