(Gawad) Kalinga Housing to Rise in Quezon City
By Perseus Echeminada The Philippine Star 09/02/2004 http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200409026303.htm
The Quezon City government signed a memorandum of agreement yesterday with four private and non-government organizations to promote the Kalinga housing projects.
The city, under the administration of Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. will be working with ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp., ABS-CBN Foundation Inc., Ateneo de Manila University and the Gawad Kalinga Community Foundation Inc. to provide low-cost housing for poor families in the city.
Belmonte, along with Ateneo de Manila president Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, ABS-CBN Foundation managing director, ABS-CBN president Luis Alejandro and Gawad Kalinga executive director Antonio Meloto, signed the agreement that calls for a concerted effort between the city government and the private sector to provide housing for the needy.
Belmonte described the Kalinga projects, which will initially target 100 homeless families in Barangay Ruby, as a project of faith.
"It's a project of faith, faith in the Filipino, faith that we can get our act together, faith that people from every segment of society including the privileged are willing to go down into the mud in order to help their fellow men," the mayor said.
He said the entry of the private groups is a giant step forward because the project will be assured of sustainability, which is what is lacking in some pro- poor programs being pursued by other groups.
The agreement provides the inventory and classification of Galing Kalinga projects, the identification and selection of beneficiaries, and the mobilization of other groups, civic, religious, private corporations and individuals in generating funds and support for the projects.
Terence M. Grana, Gawad Kalinga coordinator, said the beneficiaries of the housing project will not have to shell out cash and instead participate in the construction of houses for other beneficiaries.
"We call this sweat collateral, wherein the recipient will work for a certain number of hours equivalent to the cost of his unit," Grana said.
The (Gawad) Kalinga housing projects have been set up in Manila, Cagayan de Oro and other pilot areas in the country.
In Quezon City, the Payatas and Ruby areas near the La Mesa Dam are among the priority areas.
The Quezon City government signed a memorandum of agreement yesterday with four private and non-government organizations to promote the Kalinga housing projects.
The city, under the administration of Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. will be working with ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp., ABS-CBN Foundation Inc., Ateneo de Manila University and the Gawad Kalinga Community Foundation Inc. to provide low-cost housing for poor families in the city.
Belmonte, along with Ateneo de Manila president Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, ABS-CBN Foundation managing director, ABS-CBN president Luis Alejandro and Gawad Kalinga executive director Antonio Meloto, signed the agreement that calls for a concerted effort between the city government and the private sector to provide housing for the needy.
Belmonte described the Kalinga projects, which will initially target 100 homeless families in Barangay Ruby, as a project of faith.
"It's a project of faith, faith in the Filipino, faith that we can get our act together, faith that people from every segment of society including the privileged are willing to go down into the mud in order to help their fellow men," the mayor said.
He said the entry of the private groups is a giant step forward because the project will be assured of sustainability, which is what is lacking in some pro- poor programs being pursued by other groups.
The agreement provides the inventory and classification of Galing Kalinga projects, the identification and selection of beneficiaries, and the mobilization of other groups, civic, religious, private corporations and individuals in generating funds and support for the projects.
Terence M. Grana, Gawad Kalinga coordinator, said the beneficiaries of the housing project will not have to shell out cash and instead participate in the construction of houses for other beneficiaries.
"We call this sweat collateral, wherein the recipient will work for a certain number of hours equivalent to the cost of his unit," Grana said.
The (Gawad) Kalinga housing projects have been set up in Manila, Cagayan de Oro and other pilot areas in the country.
In Quezon City, the Payatas and Ruby areas near the La Mesa Dam are among the priority areas.
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