NSTP and CES: In Action

By MARK LOUIE RIVERA
NATIONAL Service Training Program (NSTP) and the Community Extension Service (CES) are both subjects and programs taken by college students. It requires students to conduct some activities that can help community and the people.

           

PNTC Colleges conducted many activities in line with this function.

           “Pamaskong Handog ng PNTC Colleges,” a feeding program and relief goods distribution were simultaneously held in Quezon City, Dasmariῆas, Cavite and Intramuros, Manila. These activities gave an opportunity for the PNTC students to feed selected children, who needed additional attention because of malnutrition.

Meanwhile, last January 2012, PNTC students donated trash cans to barangays of Zone III, San Agustin II and San Agustin III in Dasmariῆas Cavite. They paid courtesy to the chairmen of respective barangays, with the presence of school officials.

For PNTC students, these trash cans shall signal the start of cleanliness for the residents of those selected barangays. By the help of those trash cans, they can segregate biodegradable and non-biodegradabl materials for proper waste management and disposal.

Students also carried out a clean and green activity to an adopted barangay in Dasmariῆas, Cavite. With their cleaning tools, students cleaned and picked up plastic, paper, leaves and other human discards—extending to minor roads and side walks.

They also cut wild grasses that hinder water flow from canals, which then cause flooding. It was also a way to avoid contamination that can lead to proliferation of dengue-causing mosquitoes in the community.

It did not stop there. A drug prevention and control campaign in the same places was conducted. This served as an information drive for the youth and people about the many different life-threatening effects of illegal drugs.

Lastly, students conducted a blood letting activity in collaboration with the De La Salle University Medical Center. They gathered all types of blood, to help address blood supply insufficiency on emergency situations involving delicate patient operation and blood transfusion, among others.