Provincial Orientation and Planning Meeting

The day was intended for the Provincial Orientation and all of us are really excited to rock the stage. Bearing in mind the tasks that we need to do, we all set ourselves as the program was about to start. Participants from six municipalities came. The registration was going on as I played the TB Informational videos. Participants who has been there in the area really find it nice to get to know more about TB aside from the idea that they already have in mind, I saw how they enjoyed the media maybe because of the animations and the kind of presentation being showed. When we were about to start the program, I was really nervous but remain at ease. I began the said event by saying a famous quote of Nelson Mandela which I think gave impact. I was suddenly driven by my inner self, my nerves were cracking and that really was the time that I wasn’t able to organize the acknowledgement of participants, some was not recognized well. Especially the MHO of Baganga. However, despite the said technicalities the program went well and delivered based on its real purpose.

The activity commenced before everyone had to eat the lunch. Picture taking and series of conversation went on as we eat. Participants immediately left the area and we were all there for the restoration and after care. We assessed the activity and identified some of the positive outputs. We went home at around  3:00 pm and reached Davao City before twilight.

Challenges and Problems Encountered:

1. Microphone and other technical assistance arise because of lack of coordination between DMSF staff and Honey's Hotel  before the day of the activity.
2. Uncoordinated presentation (prezi) because there was no pointer available and no rehearsal was made.

3. Most of the MHO's are absent that affects the decision making and discussion on the coordination and referral mechanism.

Reflection:

I was really surprised how we end up into a not so really successful provincial orientation but really we did our very best to come up with an acceptable output. We were al happy because at last we initiated the activity. It is good to know that all of us took our part to do this. However, there were some simple things that I think we need to work on. Anyway we are new to this job, but you know what is not new to us is our common sense, our guts and our desire to do the job. We are in the first phase of the project and I know it is hard, given also that some of us doesn't have experience in  organizing events. In my part, hosting is one thing I was doing when I was in college and I almost forgot how to do it because I haven't able to practice it for a very long time. I felt different that time that I wasn’t able to do it properly. But aside from that I really appreciate how all of us took the challenge.

"It's always seem impossible , until its done" - Nelson Mandela