Maryjane B. Omandam
Saint Columban College, Pagadian City, Philippines
Melanie Gay B. Barnido
Saint Columban College, Pagadian City, Philippines
Vera Celeste S. Carpizo
Saint Columban College, Pagadian City, Philippines
Devonni H. Torrecampo
Saint Columban College, Pagadian City, Philippines
Abstract
Saint Columban College, as a Higher Educational Institution (HEI), offers Kadugtong-Community Engagement Services (Kadugtong-CES) to its beneficiaries in Glab Cogonan. This study determined the impact of the Kadugtong-CES by identifying the experiences of Glab beneficiaries in the program and offering suggestions on how its programs could improve the extended services to the Glab indigenous (Subanen) community. This phenomenological qualitative research utilized the focus group discussion method in gathering the data. The participants were identified through purposive sampling and were composed of one (1) Timuay, School Principal, Parent-Teacher Association President, two (2) Barangay officials, and five (5) Indigenous Residents who were direct beneficiaries of the Kadugtong- CES extended to the Glab community. The results of the study show that the participants’ responses highlighted the impacts of the services upon them, which generated three (3) themes: (a)alleviate financial needs, (b)community education aspiration, and (c)pure expression of core values on gratitude and joy. Lastly, participants have suggested expanding the services by providing the community with Livelihood training, Teachers’ Skills training, and Medical and Infrastructure augmentation. The study concluded that the Kadugtong- CES instilled empowerment in the Glab residents-beneficiaries as they have discerned, among themselves, the essence of education in the propagation of their community while promoting their cultural values and traditions in the realm of modernity and technological orientation. Hence, the resident beneficiaries become aware of their fundamental/indigenous rights and become conscious of the services that have been deprived of them for several decades. They long to have water systems, infrastructure augmentation, electricity, sustainable livelihood, and medical services. The participants’ awareness has raised serious challenges for the Kadugtong- CES office of its role in bridging the government by making community services be readily visible and available to the marginalized Sitio Glab community.principle, which is to bring the good news to the lost, the last, the least, and the lonely.
Keywords; community engagement service, impact study, extension service, focus group discussion, phenomenology
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