RESPECT THE COMMUNITY STD 5

SUBJECT: CIVIC AND MORAL
EDUCATION CLASS: STANDARD FIVE

Showing maximum co-operation to others in various activities like
RESPECT THE COMMUNITY
Respect: means a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something
elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements.
Or
To respect means to regard the feelings, wishes or rights of other people. As
young people, we need to respect everyone in the community regardless of
religion, tribe, colour or any other the things which show or indicate respect in the
community are as follows:
i. Greeting elders and respecting them.
ii. The use of good language to elders as in daily
life. iii.
cleanliness.
iv.
v.
example, if you pick one’s book or pen.
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
Engaging in criminal activities like stealing and
The use of bad language or abusive
Not co-operating with others in various
Polluting the environment like lumping waste in an area which is not
waste and directing dirty water to the water sources.
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people,
grounds of race, age or
others in the community so that we may build a good and strong community
a) Co operating with others in different activities like environmental
cleanliness and studying.
Taking one’s property without his/her permission also can be termed as
Things which show or indicate respect in the community are
example, short and tight clothes to
LOVE ONESELF AND
To love means to have an intense feeling or deep affection We need to love
Acceptable attires. You should wear the clothes which are accepted by the
Do not steal one’s properties in any given environment either at school or
Wearing acceptable clothes. This may bring bad reputation to the
b) Do not torture or discriminate others in any environment, for instance in
the class, in games or sports.
This refers to old people. As people age, they cannot work as they become less
the young people some disabilities such as poor eye-sight and poor muscle
Street
c) Practicing of hygiene behaviour like self body cleanliness and
environmental cleanliness
d) Do not use abusive language to other people no matter what difficulties you
are facng during that particular time
e) Educate others about bad actions which may harm life like robbery,
prostitution and stealing
Things we should not do to any person
i. Torturing and discriminating other people.
ii. Stealing one’s properties like books, bags and other things
iii. Disobedient to others.
iv. The use of abusive language to others.
v. Hating and not showing co-operation to others.
(a) Love for people with special
needs Special needs
Means people with physical, mental and emotional disability. These people may
some spheres of Life Lake self care, movement, communication
i. Elders
ii. Street children
iii. Women
iv. People with disability like blind and deaf people caused by old age. Therefore
elders need special care.
Elders
This refers to the group of children who stay on the streets because they have no
place to live.
The presence or existence of street children could be a result of various factors like
poverty, abuse by parents or guardians, death of parents and family break up. Due to
above reasons, the children are forced to live n the street with neither parents nor
guardians to take care of them. Also, these children may involve themselves in
Examples of people with special needs are as
labour and drug peddling
Women
In some societies, this group of people is highly ignored. They are not given equal
opportunities to participate in decision making in their own families and in some
communities where they are not given leadership positions.
In many cases, girls were not allowed to go to school. Women end up in early
marriages, forced marriages, wife inheritance and being raped. This group
needs help from the community in order to make them enjoy their rights.
The disabled people
physically challenged in various tasks in respect to their disabilities and needs.
disabilities are supposed to be supported
The acts which show love for people with special needs

• Providing education to all depending on their needs.

– Showing them respect and understanding

opinions and feelings.

–
(b) Gender
What is gender?
the social relationship between men and women that deals with the roles and
responsibilities

of men and women in families, community and the

–

• Equal chance in owning major means of production like land.
  This refers to people with mental disabilities, hearing and speech problems, the
  can help them to organize and run different
  Gender can be defined as the relationship between male and female in the
  Things that show/demonstrate respect of
  Interacting with them at home and community meetings and allow them to
  Assisting these people by giving them material and financial help. The
  To give all social services needed like
  Equal employment opportunities in all sectors like transportation, mining
  Equal sharing of duties in social, political and economic
• Equal educational services.
• Equal chance to elect and be elected as a leader.
  Things which demonstrate disrespect of gender:
• Women are segregated in decision making especially on decisions that
  affect them directly
• Segregation in education matters.
• Women are not given the night to own property like land Women are marriage
• Discrimination of women by practicing outdated socio-cultural practices
  like female genital mutilation and forced
  Bad socio-cultural practices which cause gender inequality;
  a) Wife inheritance
  regard women as a property that can be inherited In this case, when a woman’s
  another man who is a member of her husband’s family can
  inherit her The wife inheritance can cause some bad effects

as follows:

diseases.

– Dehumanization of women.

b) Female genital mutilation (FGM)
societies still practice this. To these communities regarded as the initiation

girls to become responsible

• It contributes to the spread of HIV/AIDS because tools which are used for

circumcision are

wome

–
c) Early marriages
It refers to the marriage of people who have not yet reached the legal age of
marriage In Tanzania the legal age of marriage in 18 years but this legal age
doesn’t tell you to get married in that age hence you need to continue with your
It is the process of taking over a wife after her husband’s death In Tanzania, some
This refers to the removal of some parts of the sexual organs of women. In
The female genital mutilation can lead to the following negative
not hygiene and are also used by many
It leads to the spread of diseases such as HIVIADS and other senaily
Violation of human nahts by treating a woman as a property like motorcycle
It can lead to death due to prolonged bleeding caused by
It causes many girls to drop out from school because they consider
Some complications may arise to women when giving birth or during
It highly contributes to affect the women’s
stmdy.
Early marriage leads to:-

• Girls drop out from school hence high illiteracy in the society.
• High possibilities of divorce and family instability as the couple have little
  knowledge of family affairs or matters
  d) Women discrimination
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