Be more involved in your barangay or neighborhood activities, or join the development councils. Initiate projects such as street lighting that can improve the safety of dark streets. Collaborate with groups in the church, groups of disability, or tap other people who are passionate about space, design, and transport.

The Gulayan sa Barangay program, she said, is one of the platforms of 4Ps in promoting health, nutrition, and food security and encouraging the beneficiaries to engage in community gardening.

For them, the Gulayan sa Barangay is not just a communal garden but a social activity brought about by the “bayanihan” spirit as it fosters responsibility and a sense of belongingness during this time of health crisis. …

Under the law, the Punong Barangay shall: enforce all laws and ordinances which are applicable within the barangay, negotiate, enter into, and sign contracts for and in behalf of the barangay; maintain public order in the barangay; call and preside over the sessions of the sangguniang barangay and the barangay assembly …

Ways to Help Your Community

1. Volunteer. Participating in volunteering activities is one of the most fulfilling ways to help the community.
2. Clean Up Your Neighborhood. By picking up trash and doing some yard work, you can make your area a more pleasant place to live.
3. Help Your Neighbors.
4. Donate Stuff.
5. Money Donations.

Get your community together, and head these 10 small ways to make a big impact and improve your neighborhood.

1. Start a neighborhood library or book exchange.
2. Plant a street tree or start a local garden.
3. Partake in a community art project.
4. Transform your porch.
5. Volunteer.
6. Contribute to the Citizen app.
7. Shop at local businesses.

Plan Your First Vegetable Garden in 5 Easy Steps

1. Step 1: Find Your Garden’s Vegetable-Growing Sweet Spot. Make time to prowl round your garden just observing.
2. Step 2: Get Down and Dirty With Your Soil.
3. Step 3: Plan Your Garden Beds.
4. Step 4: Choose Vegetables That Will Succeed.
5. Step 5: Dig It – or Don’t.

Each barangay is headed by a barangay captain and barangay assembly, each elected by the citizens of the barangay. Consisting of nine members, the barangay assembly is composed of seven council members plus the barangay captain and the chairperson of the local barangay Youth Council.

A Barangay Development Plan is a 3-year comprehensive multi-sectoral development plan that is put together through an inclusive and participatory approach headed by its development council and approved by its sanggunian. It is all in the planning after.

After more than a year of establishment, beyond issues of food access on these two barangays, the Gulayan sa Barangay project has been seen as about building social ties, sharing skills and experience, learning about nature, and taking proactive measures to improve their well-being as well as their economic sustainability.

The Gulayan sa Paaralan Project shall be implemented in all public elementary and secondary schools with ample and limited areas within the municipality of Tagbina using the organic gardening technologies like bio-intensive gardening. The said schools will be provided with gardening tools and vegetable seedlings.

The barangay council in order to evaluate the progress of the project must include in their monthly session all the concerns that must be improved and maintain. It is also important that people must give their all out support to preserve integrity and feasibility. XIV. Summary

In a feeding program, the first thing to do is assess the community. Barangay 6 was chosen as pilot project site because of the high spirit of volunteerism of the residents, the willingness of stakeholders to cooperate, and the diligence and supportiveness of the barangay chairperson.