In 2012, the Center for Social Concern and Action (COSCA) commissioned a study assessing the impact on communities of the National Service Training Program - Civic Welfare Training Service (NSTP-CWTS) and the Theology and Religious Education Two - Community Service Program (TREDTWO-CSP).
A total of thirty-seven (37) community leaders were interviewed to identify the following:
The perceived most beneficial service with greatest impact is tutorial, followed by feeding, clean-up and elderly program. The impacts of tutorial are manifested through improvements in children's or tutees' initiative to attend school regularly, desire to learn even in the summertime, academic performance or grades, self-confidence, acquisition of advanced knowledge and skills especially in reading and mathematics, ease of accomplishing homework and values acquisition.
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Majority of the partners (7 of 9) have no perceived least beneficial service. The two others identified TREDTWO's service for the elderly and the CWTS clean-up program as least beneficial.
They considered the service to the elderly as least beneficial because it did not address the elderly's need for livelihood loans. The clean-up on the other hand, still left many dirty areas in the community. (The DLSU students were however, not faulted for this.)
Some of the identified positive effects subject-based social engagement are:
The partners identified health, livelihood, education and feeding-related programs as their need. These needs are currently being addressed through the four components of DLSU's SDG Localization Program.
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Center for Social Concern and Action
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