GMA Network’s socio-civic arm, GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc. (GMAKF), was recently awarded a grant of 800 thousand pesos from the New Zealand Embassy, under the High Embassy Fund-Manila.
Allocated for GMAKF’s Kapuso School Development program, the grant will help build two Kapuso classrooms in Calassitan Elementary School in Sto Niño, Cagayan. This support will benefit the Agta/Aguy Indigeneous People who inhabit this remote town.
Calassitan Elementary School and other schools sustained heavy damage caused by typhoon Ulysses last year which prompted GMA Kapuso Foundation to build new classrooms to provide a safe environment to public elementary students and teachers in the area.
“30 percent of the school’s population are members of the Agta tribe and indigenous people are a priority beneficiary group of GMA Kapuso Foundation,” shared Rikki Escudero-Catibog, GMAKF Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
The New Zealand Embassy supported GMA Kapuso Foundation’s Kapuso School Development because of the Agta/Aguy Indigeneous People who inhabit this remote town and who will use the new Kapuso classrooms.
The groundbreaking ceremony of Calassitan Elementary School was held on April 28 attended by Escudero-Catibog, GMAKF EVP/COO and its multisectoral partners: Lt. Gen. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos Jr. AFP, Mayor Atty. Vicente G, Pagurayan, and Dr. Lauro Daquioag, Public School District Supervisor.
GMA Kapuso Foundation is building a total of 6 classrooms at Calassitan Elementary School and Abariongan Elementary School in Sto. Niño Cagayan and Bural Elementary School in Rizal, Cagayan set to be turned over this year.
A steel and concrete bridge will also be built at Barangay Umiray, Dingalan, Aurora and 6 classrooms will be rehabilitated at Villa Aurora Elementary School, Maria Aurora, Aurora this year.
