News Update Gawad Kalinga to complete 360 houses in Iloilo

LOILO CITY (PNA) - The Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation (Gawad Kalinga), which is a major poverty-reduction and nation-building movement born out of the Philippine Roman Catholic lay community group, Couples for Christ (CFC) is looking forward to complete the first batch of houses it is constructing at the GK International Village situated within a city-owned relocation site in Barangay San Isidro, Jaro in this city. GK Coordinator for Panay, Peter Tiu said the village was funded by the Chameleon of France in partnership with the city government here. He said that last week, Gawad Kalinga had already assigned houses to identified beneficiaries of the international village. Most of the beneficiaries are those who have been displaced by Typhoon Frank which ravaged parts of Iloilo City and the province in June, 2008. Tiu added that Gawad Kalinga will soon be turning over the rest of the houses in the village that were also funded by the Cacho family, Panay Electric Company (PECO) and the Religious of the Assumption. All in all, there are about 100 houses to be turned over to identified beneficiaries, he said. To date, Gawad Kalinga has built 360 houses in Iloilo, namely, 100 in Sooc, Arevalo; 60 in Buntatala, Jaro and 200 at the San Isidro relocation site, including those that were funded by Iloilo City incumbent Rep. Raul Gonzalez Jr. which comprise the Don Delfin Gonzalez Gawad Kalinga Village. Gawad Kalinga in Iloilo hopes to construct an additional 300 houses more on the San Isidro relocation site, Tiu said.
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