Actuarians donate P280K
To Gawad Kalinga Bohol
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, November 16, (PIA) –A nation-wide association of insurance assessors and evaluators handed to Gawad Kalinga (GK) Bohol a sum of P280,000 in check and pledges, during their recent convention at the Bellevue in Panglao.
The money goes to build houses and communities in earthquake affected and poverty haunted Bohol, according to Cresanto Sabanpan, of the Gawad Kalinga Project.
The Actuarial Society of the Philippines (ASP) who just had their 55th convention at the Pavillion of the Bellevue in tourism resort Panglao readied the papers for the donation through a board resolution which the group’s officers prepared for the Bohol event, according to ASP president Maria Sachiko Pang.
Pang shared this news in front of the delegates gathered who had earlier viewed a video presentation on the GK in the Philippines and its mission.
GK is an organization that started in the Philippine which targets to heave out 5 million poor Filipinos out of poverty by 2024.
This it does, by restoring the poor’s dignity and build a new nation empowered by people believing and loving the natioh, each one caring and sharing and is bent on working to beat poverty and regaining human dignity, according to Sabanpan, in the presentation attended also by the famed Loboc Children’s Choir.
While other groups help communities by building houses, GK characterizes itself by making an integrated and self-reliant community of service and making impossible things possible, leaving no one behind.
GK finds its fiscal support from donations in its social justice projects, banking on charity, being brother’s keepers by heroic response to voluntarism, according to Rey Balatayo, another GK worker in Bohol.
GK communities become active for testing earth friendly technologies, sustainable livelihood and innovations which could be the community’s quick way out of poverty.
With this, QK organizers aspire to attain social progress by working on the successes of voluntarism, caring and serving communities as well as sharing, because GK also believes it is not the lack of resources but the apparent tendency to hoard that makes the Philippines a poor nation.
In Bohol, a GK community is now rising in Bayacabac, Maribojoc, with 16 houses now completed at Purok 4, according to Barangay Chairman Jun Aniscal.
Aside from vermiculture, composting, organic farming, the people of this purok have started planting tree guarded fruit trees along the baranagay road leading to the municipal demo farm. (RAC/PIABohol)