Lesson 3.

Major Issues Affecting Poor

and Marginalized
Communities

Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship

General Academic Strand | Humanities and Social Sciences
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Who are the
poor and
marginalized
members of
your
community?

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Do you know
the problems
they are facing?

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How are these
problems
affecting them?

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Poverty and
marginalization have
always been considered as
challenges in our global
society. In the Philippines
alone, it is estimated that
more than 4.2 million
families are hungry.

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People who belong to any
social, cultural, religious, or
political minorities tend to
be discriminated against as
well. Social exclusion,
injustice, and oppression
are some of its the negative
impacts.

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 Learning
Competency Recognize the importance of solidarity in
sociopolitical processes in promoting national
and global community development
(HUMSS_CSC 12-IId-g-10).

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 Learning
Objectives ● Understand the major issues affecting poor
and marginalized communities.

● Recognize the importance and role of

solidarity in national and global community
development.

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 Picture Analysis
Let’s
Connect
1. The class will be divided into three big groups.
2. Each group will be assigned with a picture
depicting poor and marginalized communities.
Your task is to analyze the pictures and discuss
what issues they think are affecting the people
in the picture.

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 Picture Analysis
Let’s Picture 1
Connect

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 Picture Analysis
Let’s Picture 2
Connect

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 Picture Analysis
Let’s Picture 3
Connect

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 Picture Analysis
Let’s
Connect Question Your Analysis
What do you think is the picture
showing?

Do you consider the people in the

photo as poor or marginalized?

What are the characteristics that

make you consider them as poor or
marginalized?

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 Picture Analysis
Let’s
Connect Question Your Analysis
What do you think are the
problems experienced by the
people in the picture?

What do you think are the issues

affecting these people?

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 1. Based on the activity, what do you think is
Let’s the common theme that emerges related in
Connect understanding the experiences of poor and
marginalized communities? Why do you
think it is common?

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 2. Have you, in any way, experienced the
Let’s same or related issues in your community?
Connect Share about your experience.

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 3. What is the importance of knowing where
Let’s the problems exist in our society? Explain
Connect your answer.

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Essential
Question

What are the major issues affecting poor and

marginalized communities?

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 The Social Reality

Poverty
Poverty is a condition in
which individuals or families
are unable to afford or keep
up with society’s living
standards.

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 The Social Reality

Poverty
● deprived access to food,
water, shelter, clothing,
healthcare, etc.
● higher incidence of
poverty can be observed
in rural areas but there is
also an increasing
number of urban poor

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 The Social Reality

Marginalization of Communities

the position of individuals

or groups at the margins of
society due to certain
social, cultural, economic,
political, ecological, and
other factors

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 The Social Reality

Marginalization of Communities

People who are

experiencing poverty
and marginalization are
referred to as the
marginalized poor.

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 Major Issues Affecting Poor and Marginalized Communities

Due to historical and

structural origins, the
presence of sociocultural,
economical, political and
ecological issues worsen
the conditions of poverty
and marginalization.

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 Major Issues Affecting Poor and Marginalized Communities

Sociocultural Issues
inequalities experienced by
individuals or groups of
certain gender, sexual
orientation, ethnicity, color
or racial background, place
of origin, etc.

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 Major Issues Affecting Poor and Marginalized Communities

Economic Issues
Less educated and less
privileged or those in the
informal and minority
communities tend to suffer
more economically.

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 Major Issues Affecting Poor and Marginalized Communities

Economic Issues
Individuals, groups, or
businesses with higher
capital tend to have more
means to make them richer
and the poor become
poorer.

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 Major Issues Affecting Poor and Marginalized Communities

Political Issues
Political issues are
those that hamper the
democracy of the
nation.

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 Major Issues Affecting Poor and Marginalized Communities

Political Issues
Greater economic and
political power are given to
the elites and greater
inequality is experienced
by the poor and
marginalized sectors.

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 Major Issues Affecting Poor and Marginalized Communities

Ecological issues
When natural resources
are exploited, it is usually
the poor depending on
these resources who are
affected.

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 Major Issues Affecting Poor and Marginalized Communities

Ecological Issues
Environmental degradation
not only affects the people
of today but the future
generations as well.

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Check Your
Progress
What are the major issues affecting the poor
and marginalized communities and how do
they contribute to increasing poverty even
further?

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 The Importance of Solidarity

Solidarity plays a big role in the attainment of national and

global community development. Solidarity in one’s nation
can have a global impact.

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The Importance of Solidarity

As citizens of our nation

and the world, we all
share a social
responsibility—that we
have a moral obligation
to self, others, and the
community.

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The Importance of Solidarity

● the belief that no

person can live and
grow without the
help of others
● aiming for the
common good and
the well-being of all

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 The Importance of Solidarity
How Solidarity Can Be Achieved

● Detecting the abuses and discrimination of the poor

and marginalized
● Providing environmentally sustainable economic
development
● Empowering the poor and marginalized
communities through capacity development

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 The Importance of Solidarity
How Solidarity Can Be Achieved

● Extending employment capability of poor

communities especially those in urban communities
through education and training
● Reinforcing and supporting initiatives by civil society

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 The Importance of Solidarity
How Solidarity Can Be Achieved

● Promoting social change by challenging the system

especially the judicial sector and empowering the
citizens to speak up for their rights
● Promoting equal access to information for
transparency in the government

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Check Your
Progress

Summarize how solidarity can attempt to

lessen poverty and marginalization in
communities.

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 True or False. Identify whether the concepts being
described are true or false. Write your answer in the
Try This!
space provided.

1. Poor and marginalized communities are

prone to social exclusion, injustice,
human rights violation, exploitation, and
discrimination among other expressions
of inequality.

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 True or False. Identify whether the concepts being
described are true or false. Write your answer in the
Try This!
space provided.

2. Environmental degradation is an example

of how ecological issues not only affect the
people of today but the future generations
as well.

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 True or False. Identify whether the concepts being
described are true or false. Write your answer in the
Try This!
space provided.

3. A higher incidence of poverty can be

observed in far-flung rural areas such as
those belonging to ethnic minorities.

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 True or False. Identify whether the concepts being
described are true or false. Write your answer in the
Try This!
space provided.

4. Solidarity in one’s nation has little to no

impact on the global context.

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 True or False. Identify whether the concepts being
described are true or false. Write your answer in the
Try This!
space provided.

5. The urban poor has been increasing in

number especially those who are
unemployed and uneducated.

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 ● Poverty is a condition in which individuals or
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families are unable to afford or keep up with
society’s living standards.

● Marginality is the position or condition of

individuals or groups at the margins of society
due to certain social, cultural, economic,
political, ecological, and other factors.

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 ● The major issues affecting poor and
Wrap-Up marginalized communities are sociocultural,
economic, political, and ecological in nature.

● As citizens of our nation and the world, we all

share a social responsibility—a moral obligation
to ourselves, others, and the community.
Solidarity supports the belief that no person
can live and grow without the help of others.

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 Choose one specific community (a local community
Challenge
Yourself
or group of individuals) that can be considered as
poor or marginalized. Through research, gather
information that describes their conditions, and
how they are experiencing poverty or
marginalization or both. Enumerate the major
issues that are presently affecting them. Provide a
short writeup of your output.

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Photo Credits

Slide nos. 3 to 5: Aeta child reading by WorldRemit Comms is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr.

Slide nos. 6 and 7: Sea gypsies of Borneo by johnjodeery is licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.

Slide no. 11: Scavenger by John Christian Fjellestad is licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.

Slide no. 12: Aeta ladies reading a book by WorldRemit Comms is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr.

Slide no. 13: Protest against Donald Trump's refugee ban by Fibonacci Blue is licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.

Slide nos. 20 to 23: Homeless man Counts His Money by Brian Evans is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 via Flickr.

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Photo Credits

Slide no. 24: Mabul Island - Borneo by johnjodeery is licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.

Slide no. 25: Mission Mural - Political Art by Fabrice Florin is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr.

Slides no. 26 and 27: Relaxing on the rooftop by John Christian Fjellestad is licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.

Slides no. 28 and 29: election protest by roger_alcantara is licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.

Slides no. 30 and 31: Illegal deforestation underway! by Daniel Beilinson is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr.

Slides no. 34 and 35: Global Climate Strike by CityOfStPete is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 via Flickr.

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Bibliography

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Indon, Reginald M. "The Philippine Urban Informal Sector." Philippine Studies 50, no. 1 (2002): 113-129.

Marcelo, Stefano Z., and Sánchez Sorondo. “Inclusive Solidarity and Integration of Marginalized People.” The Pontifical
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