By Roderick L. Abad
Business Mirror
NONGOVERNMENT group Gawad Kalinga (GK) is currently constructing around 300 houses as part of its goal to build 20,000 dwellings for the survivors of Supertyphoon Yolanda (international code name Haiyan) that hit central Philippines last month.
With the initial batch of houses now being built in Ormoc City, GK Chairman and Founder Tony Meloto told the BusinessMirror that they expect them to be finished by February 2014.
“They will be completed in three months. So we’re now fast tracking the construction for their turnover next year. Others will follow soon. So we still need 1 million volunteers next year,” he said in Filipino.
Apart from Ormoc, the group is eyeing to build GK villages in over 300 barangays in areas affected by the storm, including Tacloban in Leyte; Sara, Estancia and Concepcion in Iloilo; Capiz and even Daan Bantayan in Cebu.
Meloto said the project requires P2.5 billion to build two-story concrete housing units for the beneficiaries left homeless by the devastating storm to ever hit the country. To date, various companies here and abroad have already pledged monetary support to GK. These include Mövenpick Resort, with a donation of P10 million; Credit Suisse, P15 million; and The Peninsula Group, $500,000 or roughly P22 million.
Social enterprise Human Nature, on the other hand, has committed in kind with 100 housing units.
“We don’t know whether [building all the 20,000 houses] will happen or not. The most important thing is at least we’ve tried [and already started]. We hope to build [all of] these with [the help of other private] corporations,” he said, citing other GK supporters as possible donors such as Toyota Motor Philippines Corp., San Miguel Corp., Hyundai Asia Resources Inc., and SM Group of Companies.
Even before Yolanda wrecked havoc in Central Visayas, GK has already established 400 villages in most of the hardly ruined areas.
Meloto said that they also need to provide about 5,000 roofings for those families affected by the super typhoon and fishing boats for their livelihood.
http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/en/business/companies/24853-gk-aims-to-build-20-000-houses-for-yolanda-victims
NONGOVERNMENT group Gawad Kalinga (GK) is currently constructing around 300 houses as part of its goal to build 20,000 dwellings for the survivors of Supertyphoon Yolanda (international code name Haiyan) that hit central Philippines last month.
With the initial batch of houses now being built in Ormoc City, GK Chairman and Founder Tony Meloto told the BusinessMirror that they expect them to be finished by February 2014.
“They will be completed in three months. So we’re now fast tracking the construction for their turnover next year. Others will follow soon. So we still need 1 million volunteers next year,” he said in Filipino.
Apart from Ormoc, the group is eyeing to build GK villages in over 300 barangays in areas affected by the storm, including Tacloban in Leyte; Sara, Estancia and Concepcion in Iloilo; Capiz and even Daan Bantayan in Cebu.
Meloto said the project requires P2.5 billion to build two-story concrete housing units for the beneficiaries left homeless by the devastating storm to ever hit the country. To date, various companies here and abroad have already pledged monetary support to GK. These include Mövenpick Resort, with a donation of P10 million; Credit Suisse, P15 million; and The Peninsula Group, $500,000 or roughly P22 million.
Social enterprise Human Nature, on the other hand, has committed in kind with 100 housing units.
“We don’t know whether [building all the 20,000 houses] will happen or not. The most important thing is at least we’ve tried [and already started]. We hope to build [all of] these with [the help of other private] corporations,” he said, citing other GK supporters as possible donors such as Toyota Motor Philippines Corp., San Miguel Corp., Hyundai Asia Resources Inc., and SM Group of Companies.
Even before Yolanda wrecked havoc in Central Visayas, GK has already established 400 villages in most of the hardly ruined areas.
Meloto said that they also need to provide about 5,000 roofings for those families affected by the super typhoon and fishing boats for their livelihood.
http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/en/business/companies/24853-gk-aims-to-build-20-000-houses-for-yolanda-victims
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