Jose Mari T.

Melgarejo
Session:
September 14, 2013
Block: EN
ID # 11341432
Last Weeks Reflection Paper

Last week was the first time we met in our National

Service Training program course. We have chosen to be
assigned in the Civil Welfare Training Service for different
reasons. I myself did not choose the Reserve Officer
Training Corps because it might hinder my physical and
mental ability in focusing with my academic subjects. There
were a lot fun and interesting games that we performed last
week early on in order to acquaint ourselves further with our
professor. Our real start with our subject though started
when we discussed about poverty in the Philippines and in
the world.
The first real subject that we tackled was poverty.
Poverty has been a long time social problem in the
Philippines and in many parts of the world. It has become a
huge problem that many studies and efforts are being done
in order to reduce poverty. I myself tackled how to solve
poverty in the Philippines in my problem solution essay and
also with an online community. Actually, it is quite easy to
draw plans on how to solve poverty but implementing it is the
hardest task. Although I think our discussion ended a bit too

soon last week, I hope that we may be able to actually do at

least a little in the following meetings in order to help solve
poverty specifically in the Philippines. Another subtopic on
poverty that we discussed was the extreme poverty and
hunger experienced by Africa just a number of years. There
was a picture of a very malnourished and nearly dying child
crawling on the soil while not being aware that a vulture was
already waiting for him from a distance. I do want to avoid
that topic since it is extremely disturbing and there are other
people that can handle that and can do something for that.
On top of this essay, there is a painting that portrays the Last
Supper of Christ with real and actual street children. We
discussed about how the painter helped these children by
making his painting popular and in turn also making the
children popular wherein then they were given financial help
by people that wanted to help.
Generally, last week was an introduction to what we
will be doing for our whole stay in the CWTS component of
the NSTP. It can be called as an eye opener some or for the
likes of me, an opportunity to serve the country. I truly hope
that our works, efforts and all of what we will about to learn
will help our country, the Philippines for a brighter and
greater future ahead.