The Community Profile of Palosapis-Lawaan Streets, Barangay San Jose, Rodriguez, Rizal: Basis for a Proposed Community Extension Program

Abstract

Development efforts in the 21st century must address both the opportunities and challenges that facilitate and inhibit human and societal development. The development effort for social transformation encourages people to examine their lives critically and take action to change social conditions. Certain changes in one community cannot be realized unless there is participation among the people in the community and those organizations extending help and services from other sectors. One of the organizations that actively extend help through development efforts and services is the school. Several schools have developed their community involvement or extension program which targets specific communities and sectors for sustained partnership in something of a symbolic relationship where the school supports the local organization which, in turn, provides the school with a ready "laboratory" for their community extension or involvement program. This study determined the situation, problems, and concerns of the people in the community, through the responses to the questionnaires. Results were tallied and percentage taken, analysed and prescribed through the use of tables. Summary of findings were presented to the community which served a basis for the five-year development program of SMCQC to its partner community.