Day 384: Meeting with the KKs

Meeting with your KKs will always be a challenge. But you know it’s fun being with them, at least we do.

How do you inform the KKs?

You may refer to this post.

How the meeting is done?

During our KKs’ meeting, we try to be as informal but orderly as possible.

I, or whomever councilor is assigned, speak/s of the proposals and then asks for questions.

Truly we have trained our constituents the Parliamentary Procedure, but at times, the best way to connect with them is through a sort of a “friendly chat”. This works for us, it might as well work for you.

Thankfully, anything that we want to be carried out is settled in this manner. Not until they would demand the procedure should we strictly implement such.

What’s the use of method if your purpose is not carried out?

Also, we are thankful for our KKs because they are intelligently behaved in our meetings. Just when I crack a joke, though it doesn’t sell sometimes, you can really expect a good reaction for a minute or two.

Tip: Create an atmosphere; an environment on your meeting where you think your ideas would come to fruition best.

You ask for the SK Council meeting? Well, that’s a different story.

What are the challenges?

They will and can not participate. Face it.

Even as I write, my colleagues and I can’t really figure out why our young people don’t want to attend meetings, which results to non-participation on your activities. We know that they can, just that they don’t.

In our most recent meeting we still struggle. We did the entire checklist we have to inform them. We even did the extra mile but the returns is quite unsatisfactory.

The situation. Our Linggo ng Kabataan 2012 Celebration will be this Friday, December 14, 2012. We set today, December 12, 2012, at 1:00p.m. as a “grace” meeting for their list of participants for various activities. We did meetings for the last 2 months and we still got same response. This time only three puroks out of of 29 represented themselves.

Right after that meeting we called for another meeting at 6:00 p.m. Gladly five puroks attended the meeting, but this is not a desirable response when you have 29 puroks, right? However, networking can still work through those young people who attended. As they say “The show must go on!” so largo!

Tip: Most are students. Try having a meeting at 6:00 p.m., one strategy to help us all.

Any more words?

Hope.

In my heart, I don’t fear their response on our activities for this term of office. What I deeply consider is the next Sangguniang Kabataan of our barangay. Given the fact of declining participation, how would such youth government organization thrive with the looming challenges, challenges greater than it is today?

Though their responses may be heartbreaking sometimes, carry on. We all have been in the same boat. Continue the toil. True, you might lose hope but that’s the last thing you should not lose. Hope. There always has been just that our heart fails to see it sometimes. Sometimes our heart fails to have a good grip on it. Hope for the best.