Metamorphosis_Kalahi-CIDSS Compendium 2015

PREFACE
s indicated in the Millenium Development Goals, the concept of development
Ahas shifted from economic growth to other aspect such as social dimensions,
women in development, environment and indigenous peoples to attain meaningful
results seen and felt by the people.
With this paradigm shift, people’s participation is now widely recognized as
necessary way to attain sustainable development which became the new element of
the new vision of development.
In order for people’s participation to materialize, communities needed to be
empowered first. The Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and
Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi CIDSS) Project is designed to make
this development a reality through community empowerment.
During the implementation of Kalahi CIDSS in the Cordillera, numerous
communites were observed to have been empowered as seen in the sub-projects
built in the different barangays across the region.
This publication, titled “Metamorphosis: Stories of beautiful transformations” is
a compilation of stories of individuals and communities within the Millennium
Challenge Corporation (MCC) areas in the region.
The main reason for this compendium is not simply to gather, organize and publish
strories of individuals and communites. Rather, it was to immortalize stories of men
and women, and communities who went through the process of empowerment.
These stories showcase the beautiful transformations of community volunteers who
lost themselves in the service of their own communities and later found themselves
fulfillingly blooming in the long run. It also details how these transformations
caused a ripple effect to their family and to their community as a whole.
The stories in this compendium prove that communities, when given the oppurtunity
to work on their own transformation can achieve it with the quality and sustainability
assured.