Community                  Helpers

• Discuss the importance of services provided to meet the needs of the members of the community

•  Identify the community helpers and their importance in the community such as teachers, peace officers, firefighters, nurses, doctors, garbage collectors, mail carriers, carpenters, plumbers, and others

• Relate the rendering of services to people’s right as members of the community

There are people in our community who help provide services, goods, and products for the needs of the community members. They are called community helpers/workers. Let us study each one of them and learn how they help the people in the community with their needs.

1. Farmers -  plant rice, corn, sugarcane, fruits, and vegetables. They provide us our food. We should be thankful for them because without farmers, we will have no food to eat. Farmers also raise swine, poultry, and other farm animals. The meat and eggs we eat are from these animals.

2. Fisherfolks -  catch fish, shrimp, squid, crabs, and other seafood and marine resources. We can buy what they catch in wet markets.

Some of these marine resources are being manufactured into canned goods.

3. Tailors and Seamstress

Tailors sew men’s wear like polo, pants, shirts, and shorts. Seamstresses sew women’s wear. They also make curtains, pillowcases, bed sheets, and other linen materials.

4. Carpenters   help in building houses, offices, hospitals, churches, schools,  and other structures. They also make furniture like chairs, tables, cabinets,  and beds.

5. Doctors, Dentists, and Nurses   take care of the health and wellness of the members of the  community. They see to it that we are strong and healthy. They conduct   medical checkups and cure our illnesses. Nurses help doctors take care of the sick especially those in the hospitals. Dentists provide information on dental hygiene. They assist the community members on how to take care of their teeth.

6. Teachers   teach us how to read, write, count, and do other things. They  mold us to be good and productive citizens. Without teachers, there will be  no doctors, lawyers, nurses, engineers, and other jobs.

7. Peace Officers

(Police Officers and Barangay Tanod)

• Police officers take care of the peace and order in the community. Sometimes, one could see a Police Community Precinct in a barangay. There should be a police visibility in the area so that those who are thinking to do bad things would stop.

• The barangay tanod helps in keeping peace and order in the community. He/She goes around the community especially at night to maintain peace. He/ She catches lawbreakers. Sometimes, he/she helps manage the traffic in busy streets.

8. Bakers bake bread and other pastries for the people in the community.

9. Plumbers fix leaking pipes and faucets of houses in the neighborhood.

10. Drivers serve the people in the community. They bring us to school, office, church, market, and other places.

11. Firefighters     In instances when fire suddenly breaks out in a community, we need   firefighters. The firefighters know the best way to do in putting out fire in the  neighborhood.

12. Garbage Collectors

The community needs the service of garbage collectors. These community helpers are in charge of the household wastes. They also

encourage the members of the community to practice waste segregation. There are days that they would only collect biodegradable wastes and some other days when they only collect nonbiodegradable wastes. The households

13. Mail Carriers/Postal Carriers

The community still needs the service of the mail carriers/postal carriers even if everyone in the community has access to social media. There are important documents and letters that have to be delivered at home. This is thework of the mail carriers/postal carriers. They go from house to house to  deliver the letters or documents personally to the receiver.