Puerto Princesa City, Palawan—Delegates from selected municipalities from the province of Palawan gathered last May 15-18, 2018 for the training on Success Stories and Good Practice Workshop at Citystate Asturias Hotel in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.

Community Volunteers and Municipal Coordinating Team members from the municipalities of Agutaya, Araceli, Magsaysay, Narra, Quezon, and Taytay were selected to participate in the said activity to develop and enrich their knowledge on writing success stories and documenting good practices of their implementation of Kalahi CIDSS.

Miss Ebony Kangleon, Knowledge Management Writer from DSWD Central Office served as the resource speaker of the activity. She discussed the basics of Knowledge Management concepts and focused on the discussion of good practices and success stories. Before the participants put their success stories into writing, they conducted a “mind mapping” workshop. A ‘mind map’ is a tool for organizing thoughts and facts for better translation of one’s thoughts into writing. The participants are tasked to create a mind map of the success story they were going to write.

Afterwards, the participants were handed template for Success Stories along with their ‘mind maps’. These tools served as a guide for the the whole writing activity. As they finished their stories, the participants shared their writings with the other volunteers and their stories where analyzed for improvement. More so, after the writing activity, the participants were taught practical photography which they would use to give their story a detailed spice.

“Masaya po kami na natutuhan naming na magsulat ng mga ganitong teknikal na bagay kasi makakatulong ito sa amin lalo na sa paggawa naming ng mga proposal at sa pag susulat na rin ng mga success stories sa aming bayan po” [We are happy to learn technical writing because it would help us not just in crafting our proposals but also in writing the success stories of our municipality] said Baby Angela Gandola, a community volunteer from the town of Araceli.

The activity ended with the distribution of certificate of participation and a group picture of participants. The success stories written by the participants will be published on a compendium of Kalahi CIDSS MIMAROPA Success Stories.

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