Gawad Kalinga Philippines

I would like to share with you the efforts of my fellow batchmates who are in the Philippines. Their group is called CSA GK. CSA for Colegio San Agustin and GK stands for Gawad Kalinga.

Here is their latest post:

Folks, I sat down with the folks working on our CSA GK GK Village today. Quick update: our site is above water, but surrounded by flooded areas. It is now a relief center. Taguig is half-submerged. GK Taguig is helping about 5,000 families-that 's 25,000 people (5 per family) who have had no water, light, food, dry clothing, and a dry home to live in the past week. Many are getting desperate as they are day laborers who can not work (can not travel, no money, guarding home, etc.). Visiting LGU officials have been stoned. GK delivered relief goods on 6 x 6 trucks and military escorts.CSA has been donating (3x last week) and helping out. Last Tuesday, some of us arranged the delivery, On behalf of Enderun College, a truck full of goods. Today, we collected 4 mini-trucks full of dry goods, food, water, clothes, etc. as well as cooked 300 / packed meals again courtesy of Enderun College, and had it delivered to the command center in Bgy.Pinagsama GK Taguig, Taguig. From the Angel Brigade group working at The FORT, we got 22 boxes of medicines for the medical mission to be held at the CSA GK Village site tomorrow, Oct. .. 4, noon Sunday 8 a.m.-12. What we can do, aside from the usual donation of relief goods, for GK Taguig / CSA GK Village: 1 Provide trucks or facilitate the delivery of goods to affected areas surrounding CSA GK Village; 2nd Those with military contacts, request Army trucks to deliver goods under armed escort as people are getting desperate and unruly, 3 Identify groups or areas with lots of relief goods collected, but can not deliver them to the targeted areas. For example, many groups committed to pick up the food / goods from Enderun, but never showed up today. That's why we were able to get most of those goods, and, 4 share relevant information on transportation, sources of goods, contact persons, etc. As someone wrote, this will be a marathon, not a sprint relief, Aswat effort levels are receding slowly. The rains from Typhoon PARMA today want to complicate matters. CSA GK Village will be needing our assistance, being the focal point of relief efforts in that area. Contact me at 0917.904.8207 if you are interested in helping the CSA GK Village. Our contact person is Taguig GK Raul Ramiterre (0919-229-1416) salamat at mabuhay! Hecky

Thank you,

Anna Gatchalian