Diary Entry - Community Engagement (ifioravantip807) by Ignacio Fioravanti

Identify: Which IB value or attribute motivated you to take part in this project? and Analyze: How is it reflected in the actions you proposed?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

I think that I developed and used the atribute of communicator and inquirer by researching in my team and by communicating well all the ideas with my classmates and by telling my classmates their roles and what they had to do.

Identify: What was your role in this project, and why is it important for the community and its environment?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

I think that my role was 1 of the leaders with my classmate Leonardo Chong-qui and that I made researchs and wrote a lot in the logbook

Analyze: How did you take part in group conversations when organizing the project? What did you contribute in those conversations?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

I kinda organized the group to be well organized in the brochure and also someone helped me doing that organizing, that was Leonardo Chong-Qui and Fabiana vasquez, they both helped me and we took that part in conversations.

Analyze What did you learn about yourself while working on this project? And explain: What did you discover about the community and its environment?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

I learnt that I can be a great leader and that I can be a good researcher for many different projects in different type of subjects. And I discovered that our community can make small actions that help the world, and that its envuroment its being damaged, so we should try to avoid that

Analyze: Why do you think the activity you designed can help the community and its environment? And explain: What did you base your decisions on?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

I think that my activity helped the communty by communicating what risks and harms could this problem cause in the world, awaring them to not do it and to try to correct it and avoid it

Identify and describe: What specific problem do these communities face, and how did you discover this need?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

The specific problem they face is water pollution and biodiversity loss, making difficult for them to live and survive, I dscovered it by getting deep in the problem through researchs and it is tough thinking about what is happening to our world

Explain: What did other people in the group think about the project and how did you show respect for their ideas, even if they were different from yours?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

The other groups listened us and respected our points of view and heard them, they were very opened to hear them to know different perspectives. And I showed respect to the other groups by listening them and getting deeply in their ideas and options.

Evaluate: What impact do you think your project had on the people in the school community? and explain: What signs showed you this impact?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

I think that our project helped the people in the school community by making them reflect about how the world, Ecuador and other countries overall the world are being affected by people thet don't care about the world.

Explain: What did you personally do to make the project happen? And describe: What was your responsibility?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

I think that what I made for the project to happen was researching the majority of the information with Leonardo Chong-Qui who helped me doing this researchs and I think that my responsibility was doing the researchs too

Explain: How can your actions help change the way different people or groups contribute to these communities and their environment?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

My actions influence in the others people actions in my community, so if I act and take part of this problem maybe I can guide my community and lead them to a big change

Explain: What decisions did you make together as a group to organize this campaign, and how did you collaborate in the planning?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

We made many desicions but every one of them was crucial because all those decisions were took in group and we respected the opinion of the other people in the group, showing our communication skill, and I collaborated in the planning by doing what our leader told us.

Analyze: What did you do well during this project? and explain: What was the most difficult part for you?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

Searching information from good sources and extracting its main purpose and the most important information that people should know. And the most difficult part was doing the poster again and trying to seaarch everything again.

Analyze: What problems or difficulties did you face during the project? And explain: What changes did you make to continue?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

One of the toughest things and difficulties was that a staff person of the school threw our poster to the trash so we had to do it again in just one day to present at the next day, so that was one of the main difficulties and the change we did was re-doing it

Recognize: Who are the people or groups involved in this project, and how do they work together to reach a common goal?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

An affected community is Esmeraldas and it is very affected because mainly part of their things tthey cook, eat, drink, etc is with water, and if it is not clean it could affect their healths and it could even kill them, while in biodiversity loss, an affected community is Pto Hondo or other islands and Esmeraldas too. THey have reacted sometimes by protesting and doing several things, but it has never called the attention of the governamental team and they don't care

Describe: When did you show empathy toward people in the community and how did you demonstrate it with actions?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

I asked propeerly every thing to people I don't spend time with, that is a very hard thing to do for me, but I did and I was calmed all throughout the process being pacient.

Explain: What would you like to do differently or better in a future community project? What goal do you set for yourself to keep growing?

egarcia539 — 2025-09-22 18:57:47 UTC

I would like taking better care from the poster and being a little bit more focused on the work. A goal that I set for myself it is keep being a leader and be better person with other people of my group.