Kathleen Ackert
IPSL
Topic #3
16 March 2015
Prompt: How does the community interact
with the agency? What is the image that the community has of the agency, it’s
programs, and it’s volunteers and participants? Does your topic have any social
component? How does it positively/negatively impact the community?
This is a great prompt for me
because my service placement is so integrated into the community. As I have
discussed in my last two reflections, I go into the community with various
doctors and nurses and provide health care, whether it be social, mental, or
physical.
It is hard for me to define the
image that the community has of the agency because of the language barrier.
Just going off of what body language and general tone of voice, I would say
that the community respects my agency. There have definitely been cases where
we knock on people’s doors, and they don’t want to answer questions. However, I
think this is because we have to talk to them for a long time and in some
cases, have them answer questions that can be a bit uncomfortable, such as how
much their household income is.
I chose an article from the
WorldBank, where the government, partners, and villagers are reviewing a
community driven development project in Myanmar. In the article they talk about how the project has a “people-centered approach by which
communities themselves choose, design, and implement the projects based on what
they need most” (WorldBank Online). I think that choice is a really important
thing to have in a community driven development project. In the article, they
also talk about how these government officials (and even the VP) are discussing
issues and goals directly with the villagers. I think that this is incredibly
important because who are we (we being me, other students, WHO, doctors) to
create these programs for communities without knowing what they want.
However
they perceive us, I think that there is a positive impact on the community. The reason that the public health care system
has programs like this in place is to better the community as a whole.
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