|
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
SK officials volunteer for GK housing project
A group of Sanggu-niang Kabataan (SK) leaders in Cebu City have joined the bandwagon in building homes for the poorest among the poor through the Gawad Kalinga (GK) movement.
With SK Cebu City Federation (SKFCC) President and Cebu City Councilor Glena Bontuyan, the group trooped recently to the Sinulog GK Village at Eversley Childs Sanitarium community in Barangay Jagobiao, Mandaue City to help renovate the old homes of an urban poor community that GK had adopted.
A week-long mission of another group that Bontuyan led in Southern Leyte for Ginsaugon landslide survivors under the “GK 1MB Bayani Challenge” inspired the group from different barangays, led by Charlie Ardiza, SK Chairman of Barangay Agsungot, that camped at the Sinulog SK Village from May 29 to June 3.
Friendship
The grouped worked with members of GK Serving in God’s Army, under the Child and Youth Development Program of GK, and some GK volunteers in the renovation of the existing houses of the GK homeow-ners at Eversley.
“Each day was a chance for us to interact with the families. It was not just building a house but also friendship,” Ardiza said.
“I am just so happy that SKFCC was able to help in Leyte after the tragedy and now it’s time to pass that passion to the youth here in Cebu the vision of nation building through bayanihan.”
The old wooden homes are now made of fresh concrete, while the other houses were painted with the bright and hopeful colors of GK, Ardiza reported.
Bayanihan
Ardiza’s group realized that GK promotes heroism, sacrifice and nobility, values and ethics of community life, with bayanihan as the driving spirit of a people in thirst to be a true nation.
“GK is rekindling the love for country and the poor among the middle class, businessmen, Filipinos abroad, Muslims and Christians in Mindanao and other Filipinos especially the youth who have been privileged to have comfortable lives and opportunities that the majority, (especially) the poor, do not have,” Ardiza said.
“Success is no longer just personal gain or working for the welfare of the immediate family but rising together as a people.
Because the Filipino youth’s dream is no longer just a house, a car or a college degree but a country where there is peace and abundance for all,” he added.
The involvement of the SK in Cebu City came as part of the “Matag Kabataan Bayani” program that the GK Partners Management Group is promoting among the youth and even children.
For more information on how to partner with GK, one may call its Cebu office at 253-5532 or email to gkpmg_cebu@yahoo.com.
For Bisaya stories from Cebu. Click here. (June 21, 2006 issue)
Write letter to the editor.Click here.
Join the Sun.Star message board.Click here. |
|
[return to top]
[home]
[network page]
|
LOCAL NEWS
BUSINESS
OPINION
SPORTS
LIFESTYLE
FEATURE
SUPERBALITA
WEEKEND
|
