Ateneo de Davao university

School of Business and Governance

Marketing Department

theo 141 immersion program

First Reflection paper

submitted by :
Jeyamurugan, Mathurshana

I dont need to put god in experiece because god can make himself known by giving me
peace of mind. The way god worked for that day can't be put into words.The love that I gave
and received will always be held in my heart. the house was rich in love. The love I had
experienced here is nothing short of the god's love for us. From the minute we stepped into
the house i got to feel the happiness and love around the house. I've never experienced love
quite like I have experience in that place. It was beautiful, unique, without-limits love, just like
God. the house was Rich in joy. A word that we use too often but you probably wouldn't think
of when it comes to place like that for immersion.I didn't. But joy is so present in God's
people here. I'll never forget the smiles from the kids, smiles of complete joy when we
showed up at the their house. The 2 kids, grandmother and the kidss mother didn't know us,
they didn't know our past or our hurts and faults but they loved. They loved with the joy the
Lord gave them and in turn, taught me how to love.

Even the thought of interacting with the people in that area of immersion bring
excitement in me. i could say, it was one the best experience i had in life. it was learning with
enjoyment. first of all, I learned to share - Don't worry, my parents did teach me to share
when I was young! But on this immersion, I learned to share things I didn't have an unlimited
supply of.like my food, my personal thing and cookies. Next, I learned to get along with
people. At home, if I didn't get along with someone, I could always leave or avoid that person
(wrong approach). But when you're only living with the 6 people for 5 hours. you can't avoid
anyone! I'm not saying it was always easyit was very challenging at times, to be honest.
But as a team, or as teammates, we would work through it. lastly, I learned to be honest I came into this trip, hating confrontation; it scared me. It still scares me, but I learned how to
confront honestly, lovingly, straight-forward, and gently.

With definition, poverty is Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a

violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in society.
It means not having enough to feed and cloth a family, not having a school or clinic to go to,
not having the land on which to grow ones food or a job to earn ones living, not having
access to credit. It means insecurity, powerlessness and exclusion of individuals,
households and communities. It means susceptibility to violence, and it often implies living
on marginal or fragile environments, without access to clean water or sanitation (UN
Statement, June 1998 signed by the heads of all UN agencies) and marginalization is the
process of being relegated to an unimportant or powerless position within society or a group.
in that kind place, i dont think there is poverty or marginalization.

because the house had everything joy, love and happiness which i dont find in the place i
am living area. and for marginalization everyone in the house had given equal postion. in the
area i am living, i only see some of mothers are working others are house wife. but in that
area, both of the parents are working. and all the familes living in the area know each other
very well. but in the area i am living, even in the apartments. the familes dont know each
other. there are so many difference between the lifestyle i living and the lifestyle i had seen
in that area. to be honestly, the lifestlye i had seen is much better.

the society had

homogeneity and thus enjoyed more or less the same social status , society there was very
little scope for occupational mobility and the family played a very significant and predominant
role. Its hold was very strong.