Day 211: SK Governance v.3.1

We have good outputs for the essay about the power and privileges of the Sangguniang Kabataan Chairman. I just can't miss to share it. We have a pick of a Cebuano-written essay. The Cebuano version and the translated version will be available in this post.

These young people surely is in the process of gaining concepts and insights about barangay leadership and governance. Through this program we would rather develop these than the greatly celebrated and imposed "color-coding" -you know what that means!

Outputs.

We would share outputs of the participants in this blog having the author’s permission sought, of course. The essays we will place here does not necessarily mean the best but may be the most relevant. Also, the composition of the essay will be as raw as it is.

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Their output for this lecture is an essay with the theme of "Power & Privileges" of the SK Chairman.

Below is the output of Kent A. Manzo.

Power and Privileges.

Ang pagka-SK Chairman dili gyud lalim ang mga responsibilidad. Daghang  mga butang ang dapat i-konsidera sa pagdawat ani nga trabaho. Dili lang sa maayong paghuna-huna og pagpatigayon sa mga kalihukan alang sa mga kabatan-unan, mga programa nga makaayo sa kahimtang sa grupo, pagpalambo sa mga butang nga mahitungod sa mga constituents kun dili sa imu pung kaugalingon nga kinahanglan nga ikaw mahisama sa ginatawag nga “complete package” sa pagka-SK Chairman na kinahanglan nimung manaa arun sa matarung ug hapsay nga pagdumala. Gibutaran ka sa mga kabataan-unan kay ilang Makita ang imung kapasidad sa maong butang.

Ingon pa ni Spiderman, “Great power comes great responsibility”. Sa pagka-SK Chairman, dakojud mga gahum ang manaa nimu kay ikaw man ang labaw sa tanang youth sa barangay ug naa gyud sa imu ang desisyon; kung kini ba makaayo o mkadaot sa sistema sa mga kabataan . Naa na gyud sa iya kun iya kining yaga-yagaan o iyang tarungon. Maong nahinahanglan gyud ug maayong lider kay ang tanan niyang mga desisyon masinati gyud ni sa tanan, kung maging aktibo ba o nahimung patay ang aktibidad sa mga batan-on.

Busa ang gobyerno nakahatag gyud ug pribilihiyo sa mga SK Chairman kay ilang masb-tan ang dako ug bug-at nga responsibilidad nga iyang ginagunitan. Maong nahimu nilang tagaan gyud ug binulan nga sweldo, mga binipisyong mahitungod sa maayong panglawas, insurance, libre nga pag-iskwela sa mga state university, pagbaton ug privilege sa serbisyong sibil ug uban pa ang SK Chairman. Kung buut nuna-hunaon, dako gyud kini nga gihatag sa panggamhanan silbing balos pud sa walay puas nga serbisyo sa maong lider. Ako, isip ng mudaganay, lami gyud sa paminaw nga gihatagan gyud ug importansya sa gobyerno ang Sk kay kaning mga pribilihiyo ang unang ang-ang sa ilang pagtqabang sa tibuok grupo sa mga kabatan-unan.

Translated.

Mr. Manzo

Being an SK Chairman is not that pleasant-of-a-job. One needs to consider many things before accepting this kind of responsibility. Such does not only mean planning and implementing activities for the youth, providing programs that will positively affect the group, and developing areas that concerns his constituents but also you as an SK Chairman has a responsibility to himself. You should live by the name of a "Completely Packaged" chairman, that is, you should possess qualities for an upright and orderly governance. Besides, you were voted by the youth, as they perceived capacitated for the responsibility.

As in the movie Spiderman, "Great power comes great responsibility". You are really someone who has a great power when you are placed higher over every youth in the barangay; you are to make the decisions for them, whether to better or harm the condition of the youth. That SK Chairman has such authority at his disposal to stultify or improve. That is why the youth in the barangay needs a good leader because all his decisions can greatly affect, well, all, either to cause activity or stagnation on youth participation.

That made the government bestow considerable privileges to SK Chairpersons for they understood the weight of responsibility they carry. Such responsibility was equated with monthly honorarium, health benefits and insurances, free matriculation on state universities, civil service credits, and many others. Having these load of benefits, we can see that it is quite excessive. But surely, the government made it this way in return to incessant performance of a chairman's functions. I, as a candidate for the position, find it reasonable for the government to have given importance to the SK through such privileges—their fist step to also help, the youth.

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