Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Western Visayas
Region VI
Division of Iloilo
RUFINO G. PALABRICA SR. NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
SY 2021-2022
Pamasyar sa Uma: A Community-Based Initiative
Promoting Hygiene, Sanitation, Mental and Personal
Development Amidst the Pandemic
Rationale
In the past 6 years, Rufino G. Palabrica Sr. National High School has been comprehensively
embracing the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Schools (WinS) Program and was
acknowledge as an outstanding implementer in the Schools Division of Iloilo. The school
understands that the WinS Program is the key in ensuring a safe and conducive learning
environment among Rufinian learners and to enable them to be in their best condition to
participate and learn in school.
Following the onset of the pandemic, the school identifies the WinS Program as vital service
in minimizing the transmission of COVID-19. Existing health protocols and directives from
the LGU and the National Government, on the other hand, provide a variety of problems.
One of them is stakeholder, community, and, most importantly, learners’ participation.
“Kung indi sanda ka adto dire sa eskwelahan, ang eskwelahan ang maadto kananda!”
This has been our principle subsequently to the implementation of the New Normal scheme
in education. And this principle gave birth to Pamasyar sa Uma, a community-based project
initiated by the WinS Technical Working Group, in collaboration with the Gender and
Development Program and the DIHON Teen Center, that promotes correct hygiene and
sanitation practices as well as mental and personal development through health and
development education.
Pamasyar is a Hiligaynon term that means "to visit" or "to check," which perfectly describes
the program's target: seeing how our learners have been doing in their communities
throughout this pandemic. Moreover, Pamasyar sa Uma is a follow-up to our WaSH-saBarangay initiative, in which the school distributed school-made IEC Materials in the form
of posters to act as WaSH corners in selected barangays around the Municipality of Dingle.
Vision
Every Rufinian learners exemplifies proper sanitation and hygiene practices in the
community, as well as being well-informed, empowered, and responsible members of the
society.
Mission
Every Rufinian learner should receive comprehensive health and personal
development instruction in an adolescent-friendly setting.
Objectives
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Ensure that learners have the necessary information and understanding of good
hygiene and sanitation activities;
Enable learners to acquire life-long good hygiene and sanitation habits through
improving hygiene and sanitation practices among them;
Encourage learners to participate in a personal development program that promotes
gender mainstreaming, equality, equity, and empowerment;
enlist the help of public and private partners to ensure the program's
implementation and long-term sustainability.