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FAAP 2007 Community Service at Gawad Kalinga Workshop
| When: | March 3 to 4, 2007 - Saturday to Sunday |
| Where: | St. Joseph Center 2900 Seminary Dr. Greensburg, PA 15601 Tel. 724-834-7350 |
Informing others of the movement is one way we can help our nation in erradicating poverty thru peaceful means!
March and April are Gawad Kalinga (GK) awareness months in the USA and Canada for GK's "Hope for Our Poor" charitable program in the Philippines. Nationwide gala premier of the movie Paraiso and other GK events are being organized during the months of March and April 2007. For more information, visit www.ancopusa.org.
The FAAP was privileged to assist in the GK awareness project this March. Visiting Couples for Christ (CFC) and GK benefactor members from New Jersey, Philadelphia and Boston areas hosted the Christian Living Program workshop, inspirational talks, and GK updates in Pittsburgh. During this event, FAAP donors were able to raise $2,400 sufficient to build two houses for a GK Village.
If you have friends that wish to donate to the GK project, please have them make their donations to ANCOP USA and send them to Carmelita Mendicino, CFC designated Treasurer. The monies will be forwarded in bulk to the PA GK Chairman and designated for the FAAP GK Village in the Philippines.
FAAP Volunteers and Donors: Amor and Victor Alfieri, Delia Bayani, Baby Carla, Ernie and Tessie de las Alas, Mellie Katigbak, Mila Lopez, Larry and Carmelita Mendicino, Jeannine Hizon-Myron, Carlito and Mila Ortega, Larry and Tina Purpura, Faye Ritter, Reming and Leila Sagana, Meanne Schwartzwelder, and Marietta Trent.
FAAP Donations: $2,400 good for two GK household sponsorships
GK / Couple for Christs members: From Philadelphia: Ricky Makasakit, Eliseo Art Silva, Roy Calleja (ANCOP PA Coordinator), Ces and Belle Rivera, Kay Saquira; From New Jersey: Mars de la Cuesta; From Boston: Eugene and Evita Florendo (ANCOP Boston Coordinator)
Confession / Masses: Monsignor Donald Mondello of Greensburg
For more information about this event and how you can help, please contact Tina Purpura at gawadkalinga@theFAAP.org.
03.06.2007
GK Village Builder
If FAAP wants to be a GK Village Builder, we need to sponsor a village of 30 houses. We have until September 9, 2007 to announce our intention at the Pittsburgh Premier showing of Paraiso, a GK film at the SouthSide Works Cinema. We can also partner with another village group if we wish. My intent is to have the FAAP name visible also in the Philippines.
By Tina Purpura, FAAP 2007 President 03.06.2007
About Gawad Kalinga (GK)
Gawad Kalinga, translated in English means "to give care", is an integrated, sustainable, holistic program, which aims to address poverty in the Philippines by transforming and empowering poor communities through its various programs. GK's vision for the Philippines is a slum-free, squatter-free nation through a simple strategy of providing land for the landless, homes for the homeless, food for the hungry and as a result providing dignity and peace for every Filipino.
What started in 1995 as a daring initiative by Couples for Christ to rehabilitate juvenile gang members and help out-of-school youth in Bagong Silang, Caloocan City, then the biggest squatters' relocation area in the Philippines, has now evolved into a movement for nation-building. Together with its partners, Gawad Kalinga is now in the process of transforming poverty stricken areas with the goal of building 700,000 homes in 7,000 in 7 years (2003-2010). To date Gawad Kalinga is in over 900 communities all over the Philippines and in other developing countries.
Gawad Kalinga is more than about building houses for the poorest of the poor. Providing a decent home is just the beginning of the transformation of the people and the community.
For more information about Gawad Kalinga, visit its website at www.gawadkalinga.org.
02.23.2007
About ANCOP (Answering the Cry of the Poor)
ANCOP is the network of international organizations that supports the work of Gawad Kalinga in the Philippines and other Third World countries. ANCOP offices have been set up in 20 donor areas abroad as the official international representatives of Gawad Kalinga.
ANCOP Foundation (USA), Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that serves to generate awareness and mobilize resources for Gawad Kalinga, through partnerships with generous individuals, groups, institutions, government, and corporations, and accounts for the generated resources for transparency. For more information about ANCOP USA, visit its website at www.ancopusa.org.
02.23.2007
