Survey 2: In the Perspective of the Community Officials—Brgy. Poblacion, Sta. Maria, Bulacan
In the Perspective of the Community Officials—Brgy. Poblacion, Sta. Maria,
Bulacan ||
Survey of Community Issues/Problems Among Citizens
NAME | ADDRESS | AGE | SEX | OCCUPATION | YEARS OF RESIDENCY | YEARS IN SERVICE | PROBLEMS OBSERVED |
NENITA MITRA SALEM | POBLACION 1, STA. MARIA BULACAN | 68 | F | MOTHER LEADER, BARANGAY HEALTH WORKER | 44 years | 23 years | · No streetlights near the hospital’s side roads · There are cases of robbery especially at night · Garbage pollution · Lack of water supply in the community · Residential are submerged in flood when heavy rain pours down |
ALDO FABI | POBLACION 1, STA. MARIA BULACAN | 52 | M | BARANGAY DESK OFFICER | 7 years | 5 years | · Family matters are mostly filed in blotters · Incidents of robbery |
EDWIN YUSTAVIO VILLANO | POBLACION 1, STA. MARIA BULACAN | 50 | M | AID 1 | 21 years | 2 years | · There are lot of complaints about the hospital’s bad system · Cases of deaths because of the hospital’s inability to accommodate patients · There are no enough medical equipment to accommodate more patients and their needs · There is only one public hospital in the municipality and other nearby areas, causing for huge crowd of patients lining up in the emergency room |
Table 1 shows the perceived problems of the officials within the community.
|
ISSUES PRESENTED ON SURVEY NO. 1 |
FREQUENCY (TIMES THEY WERE MENTIONED IN SURVEY 1; MAX. 10—MEMBERS OF
THE COMMUNITY) |
FREQUENCY (TIMES THEY WERE MENTIONED IN SURVEY 2; MAX. 3—OFFICIALS OF
THE COMMUNITY) |
|
Healthcare services (hospital) |
6 |
1 |
|
Heavy traffic |
1 |
0 |
|
Pollution (includes garbage-related problems) |
5 |
1 |
|
Illegal parking |
1 |
0 |
|
Poor water supply |
2 |
1 |
|
Heavy flooding |
4 |
1 |
|
Hunger |
1 |
0 |
|
Lack of support from the government (e.g., financial aids) |
1 |
0 |
|
Unemployment |
1 |
0 |
Table 2 shows a side-by-side comparison of
the awareness with regards problems within the community of its members and
their officials through numbers or frequency to be exact.
Brief
conclusion of Table 1: Officials are somewhat unaware of the problems in the
community to which they are leading. When asked about these issues, they do not
seem to recognize most of these.
OTHER
PROBLEMS PRESENTED BY THE OFFICIALS
- ·
Lack
of street lights,
- ·
Cases
of robbery and hold-upping,
- ·
Familial
matters resulting to blotters;
—which
members of the community do not exactly find as concerning as the conflicts
they have previously mentioned.
SUMMARY:
Following
the first survey conducted among members of the marginalized community in
Poblacion, Santa Maria, Bulacan, three (3) identifiable leaders or officials of
the group were interviewed. Asking the similar question with regards to the
issues that can be listed within the community, some of them were able to align
or agree with the others within the community's previously mentioned conflicts,
but not completely. It can be affirmed that their awareness of such issues
present within the specified community, strongly depends on the level of their
engagement within it. Officials that are actually residing in it or part of
this sector has more knowledge—e.g., their mother leader and the aid 1 of the
municipality who also happens to be a resident in this particular place—compared
to those who are, yes, officials, but are not necessarily part of it (e.g., the
barangay official that when asked about their consciousness regarding the
member of the community's problem, said that they are not familiar with it.)
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