Meet the team
We are three students from a business and development school witch called 3A in Lyon, the second city of France. We left in the Philippines the last summer for our internship of first year with the NGO Gawad Kalinga. During two months we lived inside a community with all the population but before our departure we didn't have time to collect some money for set up a development project. The experience is unforgettable, we met fabulous people. It is why we have the project to come back next year with real project that's why we create this site : for inform people about our future actions. This project of development in Gawad Kalinga’s village affect us, because we want to improve the daily life of the Filipino..
Meet the association
Gawad Kalinga is a NGO who struggle poverty in the Philippines, his aim is to help 5 million family to escape poverty until 2024. Gawad Kalinga, in tagalog, means "take care". His principal action is to build houses witch constitue communities for people in extrem poverty. After the construction of theses communities the aim is to set up sustainable self-sufficiency thanks to the establishment of education, environment or healthy programs.
The habitants of the village have to invest some time to improve the community, at the same time the NGO must instaure some values like solidarity and fraternity as well as a filipino culture. Gawad Kalinga was officialy born in 2003, his fondator is Antonio Meloto (in picture here). Before he was an executive in the United States, one day he decided to leave his responsabilities to dedicated his self to human and united values : he wanted to reduce inequalities inside the country. |
"The most visible aspect of Gawad Kalinga, it's probably the multicolred houses, |