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GMA Kapuso Foundation’s first ‘Kapuso school’

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On Aug. 26, GMA Kapuso Foundation (GMAKF), the foundation arm of media giant GMA Network, inaugurated its typhoon resistant Kapuso Village Integrated School in Tacloban, Leyte.

The Kapuso Village Integrated School is the biggest built by the GMA Kapuso Foundation, meant to benefit the children of survivors of Super Typhoon Yolanda who were relocated to government-owned acreage, far inland Tacloban. 

GMA Kapuso Foundation founder and ambassador Mel Tiangco reads a story to the students of Kapuso Village Integrated School (top left); which she inaugurated together with local DepEd officials, school sponsors, Tacloban Mayor Cristina Gonzales-Romualdez and GMAKF EVP and COO Rikki Escudero-Catibog (bottom left). The Kapuso Village Integrated School is built for the children of survivors of Super Typhoon Yolanda (right).

Due to the trauma of living through the strongest typhoon in known history, GMAKF, through the donations of millions of Filipinos abroad and at home, wanted to build a sturdy structure that would stand the test of time. The community did its share to secure the future of its youth by donating sweat equity to help finish the school’s construction.

The U-shaped two-story school building features a toilet and lavatory in every classroom. The lower ground comfort rooms are fed by an easy to maintain rainwater catchment system to take advantage of the rainy season. The collected rainwater can also be used for the daily needs of the school like watering plants and cleaning purposes.

Each classroom is bright and airy, complete with blackboards, students’ desk/chairs and two rotary ceiling fans for a learning-conducive environment for the children. Water dispensers were also provided. Around 700 elementary and high school pupils are projected to study in the Kapuso Village Integrated School.

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Guests at the inauguration ceremony included representatives from project partners Hanabishi (for all the appliances), Mariwasa (for all the tiles and ceramic ware in the comfort rooms), Republic Cement (for the cement for the school) and Latter-day Saint Charities (for the 740 brand new student desk/chairs). 

Rev. Fr. Andres B. Guban, SVD, officiated the blessing of the classrooms. 

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