Build A Shelter Project (BASP)

Gawad Kalinga (GK) ("to give care" in Tagalog) is a Philippine poverty

alleviation and nation-building movement known officially as the Gawad Kalinga

Community Development Foundation.

Its mission is to end poverty for 5 million families by 2024.

HISTORY

In 1999, Couples for Christ built the first GK house for the Adduru family

from Bagong Silang, a barangay in which the organization had previously held

poverty programs.[2] The name "Gawad Kalinga", which translates in the Filipino

language either as "to give care" or "to award care," was coined in 2000.

The first GK Expo was launched on October 4, 2003, in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City.

During this gathering, GK launched a campaign called the GK777 campaign to build

700,000 homes in 7,000 communities for 7 years.

“BASP’s 22 houses were among the first Gawad Kalinga houses built after Typhoon

Haiyan hit Eastern Samar and Leyte,” said GK Executive Director Luis Oquinena

during the GK Social Business Roadshow held in New York in April.

Another 34 of the 36 scheduled houses have also been built in the municipality of

Hernani, Eastern Samar. Consul General Mario de Leon Jr. visited Hernani Village

last December 2014. Work is set to begin on the construction of houses in Giporlos,

Eastern Samar in the first half of 2015. The Municipality of Dolores in Eastern

Samar, where typhoon Ruby (Hagupit) first made landfall, was chosen as the site for

the fourth village.

BASP convenor Vivian Talambiras Cruz (in red blouse) with recipient families. Also

in photo are Tanauan Mayor Pelayo Tecson and Gawad Kalinga Area Coordinator

Kevin Caballero
 The recipients of the houses are residents of Tanauan, Leyte. Poverty in the

Philippines is so widespread that we will be the first to admit that we will not be able

to directly help all these poor communities. However, GK hopes to be able to provide

a template so that other groups can easily align with our work or independently

replicate it altogether. There are three basic requirements before we start a GK

community:

 Security of Tenure on the Land

There has to be a clear and secure arrangement on the land where the GK village

will be built. Clearly, GK cannot serve informal settlers unless it is part of a relocation

plan to a secured site. “Secure” means the beneficiary community either collectively

owns the land or in a usufruct agreement with a private/public entity for the land. Visit

our GIVE LAND page for more details.

 Willingness of Beneficiary Community

The beneficiary community, after a GK appreciation session, must accept and enrol

into the Gawad Kalinga program voluntarily.

 Caretaker Team

A Caretaker Team must be locally available and willing to guide the beneficiary

community through the GK journey. GK Caretaker teams are volunteers formed and

trained by GK Provincial Management teams in each province. These Provincial

Management teams are in turn duly assigned by GK Head Office management.

 Kapuso Village

Figure 1. Kapuso Housing Village, Brgy. 106 Tacloban

City
GMA Network, one of the big television networks in the country donated a

village to the residents displaced by super typhoon Yolanda when it hit the city in the

year 2013.

GMA Kapuso Foundation (GMAKF) is a non stock- non profit organization built

in the year 1991. The said foundation donated 403 concrete permanent houses. These

units are divided in 21 blocks within Brgy 106.

In a statement Mel Tiangco head of the foundation said, “We formed a

committee composed of five offices that includes the Office of the Mayor, Department

of Social Welfare and Development, National Housing Authority, Office of the

Barangay, and the GMAKF. Lima. Para wala kaming sisihan, walang politics.”

The lot area is 50 sqm, the floor area is 42sqm. The house also included

appliances from Hanabishi Appliance Inc. The company donated 1 Million Pesos worth

of appliances for Kapuso Village.

 The recepients of the houses were originally from Brgy. 88, a village massively

devastated by typhoon Yolanda in the past. Aside from being members of Brgy 88,

GMAKF cited the following requirements for the recipients:

1. Recipients should be composed of 6-7 members per household

2. None of the family member is working in the government

3. Recipient’s family income should be below 14,000/ monthly.

The Kapuso Village in Tacloban is the fifth Village built by the Kapuso

foundation in the Philippines.

GMA Kapuso Foundation Archive

Figure 2. GMAKF EVP and
COO Mel C. Tiangco lowers a
time capsule containing
project plans and wish notes
during the groundbreaking
ceremony for the Kapuso
Village in Tacloban.

Figure 3. Construction of GMA

Kapuso Foundation

Figure 4. Hanabishi Donates 1M

Worth of Appliances to GMAKF
Kapuso Village in Iligan
 CRS housing

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the international humanitarian agency of the

Catholic community in the United States. Founded in 1943 by the United States

Conference of Catholic Bishops, the agency provides assistance to 130 million people

in more than 90 countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East

and Eastern Europe.

A member of Caritas International, the worldwide network of Catholic

humanitarian agencies, CRS provides relief in emergency situations and helps people

in the developing world break the cycle of poverty through community-based,

sustainable development initiatives as well as Peacebuilding. Assistance is based

solely on need, not race, creed or nationality. Catholic Relief Services is

headquartered in the Posner Building in Baltimore, Maryland, while operating

numerous field offices on five continents. CRS has approximately 5,000 employees

around the world. The agency is governed by a Board of Directors consisting of 13

clergy (most of them bishops) and 10 lay people.

Historical Background

Initially founded as the War Relief Services, the agency’s original purpose was

to aid the refugees of war-torn Europe. A confluence of events in the mid-1950s — the

end of colonial rule in many countries, the continuing support of the American Catholic

community and the availability of food and financial resources from the U.S.

Government — helped CRS expand operations. Its name was officially changed to

Catholic Relief Services in 1955, and over the next 10 years it opened 25 country

programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. CRS's executive director

during this period (1947–1976) was Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom.

As the agency grew, its programming focus widened, adapting to meet the

needs of the post-World War II Roman Catholic Church and the circumstances of the

people it encountered. In the 1970s and 1980s, programs that began as simple

distributions of food, clothing and medicines to the poor evolved toward socio-

economic development. By the late 1980s, health care, nutrition education, micro

enterprise and agriculture had become major focuses of CRS programming.

In the mid-1990s, CRS went through a significant institutional transformation.

In 1993, CRS officials embarked on a strategic planning effort to clarify the mission

and identity of the agency. Soon after, the 1994 massacre in Rwanda – in which more

than 800,000 people were killed – led CRS staff to reevaluate how they implemented

their relief and development programs, particularly in places experiencing or at high

risk of ethnic conflict. After a period of institutional reflection, CRS embraced a vision

of global solidarity and incorporated a justice-centered focus into all of its

programming, using Catholic social teaching as a guide.

 All programming is evaluated according to a set of social justice criteria called

the Justice Lens. In terms of programming, CRS now evaluates not just whether its

interventions are effective and sustainable, but whether they might have a negative

impact on social or economic relationships in a community.

Emergency Responses

CRS has been continuing their legacy of supporting and helping who are in

need. Some of this are, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, 2010 Haiti earthquake,

Syrian Refugees, Crisis in Central African Republic, and here in the Philippines the

2013 Typhoon Haiyan.

On November 8, 2013, Super-typhoon Haiyan, one of the largest Category 5

storms every recorded in the Philippines, made landfall. Haiyan devastated over half

of the 81 provinces in the Philippines, destroying roads, airports, ports, markets, health

facilities, telecommunications, water supplies and homes. More than 12 million people

were affected, of which 4 million were displaced and more than 6,200 killed.

CRS has been responding to the crisis both at national and provincial levels

since November 2013. With Philippines Caritas, they’ve provided essential and

comprehensive relief to Haiyan victims in the areas of shelter, WASH (water, sanitation

and hygiene), livelihoods and disaster risk reduction.

Their goal is to support more than 100,000 families in Leyte and Eastern Samar

in rebuilding their lives and communities over the next five years. The strategy focuses

on moving from recovery to development and is based on four main pillars:

Household infrastructure

Livelihoods for the most vulnerable

Community disaster risk reduction and

Partnerships

One of the assisted barangay by the Catholic Relief Services is the barangay

of Baras Palo, Leyte. The barangay has been affected by the flood during the typhoon

and almost all of the residences’ houses we’re devastated. CRS offered shelter

assistance to the families that we’re affected by the typhoon. All of the families who

have mild damages in their house were given financial assistance and household

infrastructures while those families who have lost everything were given the shelter

assistance.

NGO Name: Catholic Relief Services

Location of the Project: Barangay Baras Palo, Leyte

Recipients: Families whose houses were totally devastated

Current Status of the Shelter Assistance provided by CRS in Brgy. Baras Palo,

Leyte
  2x3m Shelter Assistance by CRS

 1x1.2m Toilet

Some of the other design of Shelter assistance provided in 2013:

Housing Unit Toilet

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PRESENTED BY: LACABA, LEROI NIÑO A.

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PRESENTED TO: ARCHT. BERNIE TUDIO, UAP