Child & Youth Development GK Child & Youth Development nurtures and develops the young through an age-specific,

values-based program that helps them reach their fullest potential. Many poor children are unable to attend school and enjoy studying because they have to scavenge for food or work very early in life to help their families. Education should be available to all, and we envision all the children and youth in our GK communities to live with dignity and be empowered to become heroes for God and country. This is done through three sub-programs:

GK SIBOL (sibol meaning to grow) serves children ages 3 to 6 years old. It is a community-based pre-school program that envisions each child to be imbued with positive Filipino values and to be academically prepared for formal schooling. GK SAGIP (sagip meaning to save) is an acronym for Sagipin Ang Galing Isip at Pangarap ng mga Kabataan (save the talents, minds & dreams of the youth). It seeks to nurture the newfound hope of GK youth aged 7 to 13 through weekly values formation activities that promote love for God, country, family & fellowmen. GK SIGA (siga meaning to give light) seeks to empower the youth in GK communities aged 14 to 21 years old. Through weekly barkadahan (group of friends) sessions, the youth are provided with opportunities to hone their skills and talents that will make them patriotic and productive citizens of society. The GK Child & Youth Development (CYD) program also helps the youth by various values formation activities, technical & academic skills trainings, arts & crafts, and sports. GK SipaG (sipag meaning diligence) is a special project under GK CYD that seeks to develop underprivileged children through football/soccer.

HOW YOU CAN HELP You too can help the children and youth of GK communities by sharing your time, treasure and talents: 1. Tutor a child ONCE a week 2. Donate school supplies 3. Build a playground or a school in a GK community 4. Develop learning modules 5. Sponsor a child or a youth's education 6. Sponsor the salary of a Sibol teacher 7. Volunteer for any of the sub-programs under CYD Our Community Building Program empowers GK communities to be self-reliant and sustainable by building up its people towards unity and self-governance then ultimately service for others. Through the years, we have witnessed the transformation of GK residents to organized communities mentored by a team of committed community caretakers driven by the values of "padugo" (bleeding for the cause) and "bayanihan" (being heroes to one another). Through regular community values formation and leadership sessions, GK residents (the Kapitbahayan) are also empowered to become program implementers in their own communities and partners in growing the movement towards nation building.

Each GK village aspires to become a model community that is: A Faith Community where residents are free to practice their religious beliefs in an atmosphere of mutual respect and reverence A Peace Zone where neighbors live in harmony and where conflicts are justly settled based on the higher principles of neighborly love and the common good A Tourist Spot where the sense of beauty and order is regarded as an indispensable part of dignified human dwelling A Productivity Center where human and natural resources are fully utilized to sustain the growth and development of the community An Environmentally Healthy Community where residents practice the principles of proper utilization and preservation of the environment An Empowered Community where individuals participate actively in governing the daily life and activities of their village A Secured Community where residents are prepared to respond accordingly in the event of calamities in order to preserve lives and property Environment Green Kalinga enables the poor to do their part in becoming good stewards of the environment. To help the poor in a sustainable manner and to ensure that they have access to clean air and water as well as productive soil, we must mobilize them to become active partners in the protection and rehabilitation of the environment. The poor are the most dependent on natural resources to meet their daily needs. However, with limited knowhow and options, their actions also contribute substantially to environmental degradation slash and burn farming, cutting of wood including mangroves for charcoal-making, direct disposal of wastewater and solid waste to water bodies, and the like. Unfortunately, they are also the most adversely affected and the least capable of coping with the consequences of this degradation. Much of the success of Green Kalinga depends on how the values and principles pertaining to the environment are imbibed and practiced by GK residents, workers and volunteers. Even with the technical and advocacy support provided by Green Kalinga and its partners, these efforts are sustainable only when a shift of lifestyle is adopted by the GK communities. This is why each GK community is individually assessed and from here, the appropriate Green Kalinga components are implemented.

HOW YOU CAN HELP Corporations, individuals and volunteers are actively involved in the funding and implementation of Green Kalinga components as well as in engaging GK communities through teaching and empowerment. You too can help Green Kalinga by: 1. Forming a group and hold planting activities in a GK community 2. Teaching proper waste segregation methods to a GK community 3. Helping integrate environmental practices in GK villages 4. Adopting a GK community and introducing green technologies 5. Sponsoring green technologies to be implemented in GK communities Food Sufficiency GK Food Sufficiency is committed to empower the hungry and to eradicate hunger. It is envisioned that each family in a community is empowered to produce their own food to augment their needs.

WHY WE DO IT Somewhere in the Philippines, Mang Jose shares a pack of noodles with his family of five. It is their first meal of the day, and their only one. His children will again have to endure their stomach pains tonight, unless they learn to scavenge food from the garbage and re-cook them:a skill Mang Jose learned from living in the slums. After all, most of their neighbors have done it. About 4 million households or 20 million poor Filipinos are experiencing involuntary hunger, according to the Social Weather Stationsurvey, second quarter of 2009. Mang Jose tells us, "I don't know anyother way. I don't want my children to sleep hungry everyday." In a country with 9.7 million hectares of arable, idle land, it is not right that Mang Jose's children should have to eat from the garbage can. Bayan-Anihan, which means "community harvest", believes that to solve the problem of hunger in the Philippines, we must empower the poor to produce their food with their own able hands. We are setting up sustainable food programs in every impoverished community and bringing together concerned partners from the government, universities, corporations, and the youth to share their time, resources and expertise to the community to make sure that every Filipino family will never have to be hungry again. We believe that if we teach a man how to fish, in this case how to plant, we will indeed feed him for a lifetime. Today, BayanAnihan is planting the seeds of hope towards that beautiful vision of a hunger-free and prosperous Philippines. HOW WE DO IT Bayan-Anihan is the first family-based,sustainable farm program in the Philippines. Each family is given a 10-squaremeter garden plot which can yield a minimum of 10 kilograms of vegetables per month, providing 30 meals per family. The programs success depends on the valuable contributions of partners and individuals who each have a role to play in fighting hunger in the Philippines.The Department of Agriculture provides farm inputs and funds technical training while the local government units provide land & water systems for the farmand on-ground monitoring. The Agricultural State Universities help with teaching farm technology andmanagement to the communities in their respective areas. Each university isconverted to a Bayan-Anihan Training Center where model plots are set-up andprogram involvement becomes part of the school curriculum for both facultymembers and students. Health Gawad Kalinga Kalusugan builds towards healthy communities through the training of its residents and supporting priority health needs. Ten mothers die daily due to pregnancy and childbirth-related causes. 6 out of 10 Filipinos die without getting any medical attention. Four million children are malnourished and 50% of the population has no health care access. These saddening figures account for names, lives and faces. They all have families, dreams, and talents to give. Just like any other person who breathes, the poor have the right to good health and we exist to uphold it. The poor deserve more than just band aid solutions, and they can overcome health problems once they are empowered. As a community health program, GK Kalusugan employs three strategies: Capacity Enhancement (SIGLA) Through SIGLA, we aim to empower the people in the community to look out for their own health. Health leaders are chosen among the beneficiaries and trained to become first contact health providers, counselors and mobilizers. This strategy is made possible by the financial support from partners as well as the technical skills and mentoring from health care experts and student volunteers. Services Delivery (SERBISYO) Through SERBISYO, we provide much needed health services in the form of tuberculosis (TB) treatment, Nutrition Program and PhilHealth Enrollment to name a critical few. Partners and health professionals come in to provide the sponsorship and technical skills needed. The trained health care workers in the community are also involved in the implementation and monitoring of these services. Systems Development (SISTEMA) Through SISTEMA, we aim to establish a better health system and give better access to health services and facilities. Key to this strategy is our partnership with several institutions and local government units.

Infrastructure GK Community Infrastructure works with the residents in the building and up-keep of a beautiful and structurally-sound community that provides families a better quality of life. Brightly painted homes and other communal facilities (multipurpose centers, preschool buildings, clinics, etc.) are built through a combination of paid skilled labor and the sweat equity of GK residents. At present, at least 4.5 million Filipinos are forced to live in danger zones, making them vulnerable to natural disasters. Homeless families are forced to live in a slum environment, exposing them to serious sanitary and health issues, high criminality rates, and other negative forces that further degrade their dignity as human beings. Given the magnitude of the problem, the GK Community Infrastructure Program (CIP) builds with excellence, scale and efficiency to help more families in need. GK CIP is the most visible and palpable physical expression of the transformation of the residents. We do this through the following:

Land Security The CIP Team ensures that each site is covered by proper legal documents for security of tenure. We also ensure that each site is cleared by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to reduce the risk and consequences of natural calamities. Sweat Equity GK residents provide sweat equity for the construction of homes and community facilities so that there is a sense of ownership and unity, since they work on the structures together. This also leads to sustainability, because the families build relationships with each another and take great efforts to maintain the structures that they worked hard for. GK Estates Aside from building traditional GK villages of 30-100 homes, CIP has also introduced the GK Estates larger communities composed of at least 300 houses to achieve scale and better efficiency. CIP continuously improves systems and technologies to set national standards that are adopted by different GK sites.

Center for Social Innovation

CSI (Center for Social Innovation) is a business ecosystem developer that aims to build a culture of social entrepreneurship. Business ecosystems are spaces that are forgiving enough for social entrepreneurs to make mistakes while testing prototypes and new business models; AND spaces that are alsodemanding enough for them to build global Filipino brands that have real social and environmental impact. CSI does this by engaging the Gawad Kalinga network and by leveraging on the Gawad Kalinga community platform. The first provides access to experts and volunteers from the academe, business, government and other fields. The second allows social enterprises an opportunity to achieve scale, sustainability and impact. WHY WE DO IT Scaling up is hard to do but there is an urgent need for social enterprises to do them. Social enterprises that achieve scale not only achieve financial sustainability but they also directly improve the lives of more Filipino families and significantly address environmental concerns. CSI therefore facilitates the transfer of resources from experts and institutions to social entrepreneurs who need them for scaling up. The missing element in all of these is a pipeline of young leaders, potential social entrepreneurs. They have the time and the energy to immerse in communities who need to be sustainable but also have enough skills to deal with experts and build Filipino brands. CSI then partners with key institutions to ensure a steady supply of young Filipinos actually become social entrepreneurs.