Learning Objectives
Know the Needs of the community
Explain the importance of our basic need.
Understand the way of Life in the community
Success Criteria
Know the Needs of the community
Explain the importance of our basic need.
Understand the way of Life in the community
Discussion
The community is made up of different kinds of people with different occupations. These people—by engaging in their work—can help in providing for the various needs of the people in the community.
Basic Needs
People have basic needs. We need food, water, air, clothing, and shelter in order to live well. People do their best to satisfy their needs.
Food
People need food. It is the most important basic need. All of us need healthy and nutritious food to be strong and healthy. We need to be healthy and strong to become productive members of our family, community, and country as a whole.
Clothing
Clothing is an important need, too. We need clothes to protect our body from cold or from heat of the sun. We should wear light clothes during summer and thick clothes during rainy or cold weather.
Shelter
People need shelter as their protection from the heat of the sun, from the rain, and from other harsh elements in the environment. A house can be simple or extravagant, big or small. Different houses are built depending on the climate and location. A house made of bricks or stone is appropriate in places often visited by typhoon. Stilt houses are in places where fishing is the main occupation, and concrete houses are in urban places or cities.
Water
People need clean water for drinking and cooking food. Water is also needed for taking a bath, washing clothes, cleaning the house, washing dishes, and bathing pets.
In Metro Manila and even in provinces, our government—through private
water utility companies—makes sure that there is enough supply of clean,
safe, and potable water.
Other Needs
People have other needs like education, health and sanitation, transportation, communication, clean and peaceful community, jobs, and recreation.
Health and Sanitation
Aside from food, clothing, and shelter, people will be healthier if their health needs are cared for. The government sees to it that the medical and health needs of the people are addressed through health centers and hospitals. There are doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, and other health workers to serve the people. The Department of Health takes care of our health needs.
Education
Education is important to improve our lives and become productive citizens of the country. To make sure that everybody can avail quality education as provided in our constitution, the government builds public schools to make education accessible to all. It also provides textbooks, computers, and other education materials.
Transportation and Communication
Transportation is also necessary for people to go to their work, travel to other places, and transport goods and other products from one place to another. The government builds roads, highways, bridges, railways, sea ports, and airports for easy, fast, and convenient transport of people and goods.
Communication facilities are also very important in the lives of the people today. We can easily communicate with our friends and relatives here and abroad. People can easily get access to important documents, messages, and news. Means of communication include telephones, cell phones, fax machines, computers, and televisions.
Department of Transportation (DOT)
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH),
Jobs
To have a job or means of livelihood is also important for people in order to live well. Each one in working age tries to get a better job to sustain the needs of the family.
The amount of income of a worker depends on the kind of job he/ she has. The kind of living a worker can give to his/her family depends on his/her income. If both parents do not have jobs and have no source of income, they will not be able to provide for the basic needs of the family. The government tries its best to provide work for its people and address unemployment and other labor problems through the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). The government creates programs to help the poor
to improve their way of living. One of these is the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, popularly known as 4Ps. The Senate approved this on February 4, 2019 in its 3rd and final reading; the bill would institutionalize the government’s conditional cash transfer program.
Cross Curricular Link
Science : Basic Needs
Real Life Application
Evaluation