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Table of Contents Messages From the Chairman 2 - 3 From the Executive Director 4 - 5 OUR VISION Building Up Gawad Kalinga 6 - 9 Gawad Kalinga is building a nation empowered by people with faith and patriotism; Highlights (Jan 2011-Jun 2012) a nation made up of caring and sharing communities, Integrity Drives Excellence 12 - 17 Stewardship Drives Productivity 18 - 25 dedicated to eradicate poverty and restore human dignity. Servanthood Drives Leadership 26 - 29 Solidarity Drives Teamwork 30 - 37 Padugo Drives Commitment 38 - 43 Operations Report 44 - 45 OUR MISSION Financial Report 46 - 47 Moving Forward 48 Ending poverty for 5 million families by 2024. Land for the Landless. Homes for the Homeless. About The Cover The cover represents our countless volunteers, partners and caretaker teams — ordinary men Food for the Hungry. who have embraced the extraordinary challenge of living out the GK Way and becoming their Brother’s Keeper. Armed with the courage to care for the poor and guided by the values that shape the work of Gawad Kalinga, their lives are a testament to the selfless love and commitment that will bring the mission all the way to 2024. systems and operations to deliver market and currency. There is Heroes are born with every the GK2024 vision to help end a surge of patriotism that is so tragedy. poverty for 5 million Filipino palpable, encouraging more young families. Of course Issa Cuevas- Filipinos not to leave the country, Sacrifice is the heart of love. from the Santos is a big help in putting in engage more in social innovation, Message CHAIRMAN order the backbone for nation- create more opportunities at home To end poverty the poor must be building while both do home- rather than seek for it abroad, seen as wealth creators, not objects building at the same time for their turn unproductive fertile lands into of charity. growing family — 3 kids for Luis fields of abundance and secure and 2 for Issa. our food source and supply chain Farmers and blue collar workers will for industrialization, produce and be the new economic heroes of the patronize excellent local products land, after OFWs and BPO workers. MORE HOPE and trigger a period of Social Artistry for sustainable prosperity To achieve social progress, As we view the landscape this and peace. agriculture must be prioritized year, GK is gaining greater public for food security and sustainable recall as a brand of hope starting industrialization. with former squatters in urban GREATER SOLIDARITY slums, now to calamity victims We must support the spirit of social in vulnerable areas and soon The GK Enchanted Farm is innovation in the young for them to farmers as we expand our capturing the global mood for to build a better and safer world economic platform for countryside greater solidarity and more than this decaying world they have development. Radical optimism effective stewardship of people inherited from us. builds sustainable communities — and planet and attracting a more than 2,000 GK villages to-date growing stream of foreign Through miracles of solidarity, a and counting, turns idle men into interns, starting with hundreds new world will rise where no one productive citizens, encourages of French changemakers, to is homeless or hungry, neither an graduates of exclusive schools to discover the treasures of Asia in enemy, a victim nor a prey. work with farmers to make the land our GK communities and help productive and create jobs in the achieve prosperity with justice. Our Saviour came into this world countryside. Europeans, North Americans, as a squatter with a simple Australians and Asians converging carpenter for a father to show us in GK villages to teach and to that the masterplan for global MORE WEALTH CREATORS learn, to give and receive the prosperity and peace is to build best from one another. sustainable communities where The first (of 24 sites nationwide) resources are shared and no GK Enchanted Farm Village The future of business is one is in need (Acts 4:31-35), scant University in Angat, Bulacan in social entrepreneurship, resources are leveraged following Building the New World the GK Way is attracting convergence for optimizing profit that restores the miracle of the 5 loaves and bottom-of-the-pyramid wealth human dignity, protects the 2 fish (Matthew 14:13-21) and Dear Patriots and Friends, grow bigger and stronger through many big donors like San Miguel, creation and rural job generation. environment and builds peace. sustainability is achieved following the blood, sweat and tears of Berjaya, Shell, SM & BDO and also the The Shell Centre for Social Jesus’ direction to bear fruit that he fixation of many on the our everyday heroes, patriots most popular brand in the country Enterprise Start-ups, Hyundai At the GK Enchanted Farm Village will last (John 15:16). Mayan prediction of the world and generous friends. What is for volunteerism. The global awards Centre for Green Innovation, University a new generation Tending on December 21, 2012 significant now is that majority received this year, notably Skoll Human Nature’s Wellness and of Filipinos will learn to be The dream to build a new world will is for me simply a metaphor for of our caretakers and volunteers and the World Entrepreneurship Beauty Centre, LifeBank’s Bayanihan better stewards of this rich and come true for those who love and the passing of the old world at war are empowered residents of our Forum, attest to the effectiveness of Economics Centre, ODM’s Design beautiful country, to be global those who hope. with itself and the birth of a kinder GK villages. Many beneficiaries are everyday heroism in the Philippines Centre, Mitsui’s Agricool Centre citizens who will attract visitors and safer planet that people can now benefactors. on a scale that can inspire other and Berjaya’s Culinary Centre and investors to discover the Thank you to all who took this build together. nations as a template for ground- will hopefully be ready by Philippines as the gateway faith journey with Gawad Kalinga up inclusive development. June 2013 to cater to two hundred to Asia and the hub for social where hope abounds and the love Gawad Kalinga was born out of GREATER HEROISM thousand visitors annually. entrepreneurs. of Christ is always around. this desire to bury the old world With the entry of DAR, DENR, DA of greed, corruption, injustice We honor our daring volunteers BIGGER CREDIBILITY and LGUs, the stage is nearly ready Starting June 2013, the Enchanted and hopelessness through who learned to walk on water to for an effective public-private Farm is expected to welcome compassionate self-giving to ease save others in 2011’s Typhoon In all of this I must commend our partnership that aims to raise visitors from schools, corporations, human suffering. Through heroic Sendong that devastated Iligan Executive Director Luis Oquiñena five hundred thousand social government agencies and LGUs, sacrifice for our country we are and Cagayan de Oro. They are for his compassionate and entrepreneurs to help improve the NGOs, foreign interns and tourists building intentional communities setting a pattern as often the first competent leadership. Not only lives of five million rural farmers. to the various camps, corporate for a platform of good citizenship, to arrive in disaster areas for rescue, is he effective in directing a big team building and family day Tony Meloto productivity and sustainable a dedicated ground team for relief ground force for massive relief events, weekend markets, day tours, Chairman, Gawad Kalinga prosperity. We have shown in the operations and the last to leave and rehab operations nationwide, DEEPER PATRIOTISM conventions, seminars, weddings, last 10 years that we can do it. to do rehab and relocation work he continues to inspire a growing etc. So much to learn, so much to We need to do more in the next in keeping with the GK spirit of global army of corporate partners, This is coming at a time when the do — let’s continue to enjoy the decade. “walang iwanan” (leave no government supporters and Philippines is gaining the trust of journey. one behind). Our heroes go to committed volunteers to support the global community due to the dangerous areas to make them the nation-building effort. While honest and competent leadership MORE SACRIFICE safer, will not abandon the needy continuing to move with the spirit, of President Noy Aquino and his MORE LESSONS THIS YEAR who are considered as family. he has gained support from a pool cabinet, making our economy No prosperous nation was built Because of this Gawad Kalinga has of experts, led by an exemplary the fastest growing in Southeast The worst of times bring out the without sacrifice; GK continues to become the top-of-mind choice of Board of Trustees, in strengthening Asia with the most stable stock best in us. Message from the Dear Team GK, but we responded with faith to do to bring GK closer to the and courage and we rebuilt realization of our vision of ending EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR t is a new season of hope for all step-by-step and brick-by-brick. poverty for 5 million families of us as we take stock of the With the help of our Bayani by 2024? I believe the answer is Ilessons of the first 7 years and Builders and the heroic community two-fold : build the foundation for the next organizers who were former phase of our work. It is with all beneficiaries, hope is rising in 1. To build volunteerism anchored humility that we celebrate the Iligan, Cagayan de Oro and Negros on faith and patriotism as the victories of the years past but also Oriental.
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