Kapus CITIZEN
JUNE 2013
ISSUE NO. 17
GMA G.I.V.E.S. Starts the Month of June the Kapuso Way:
Helping Build the Kapuso Multi-Purpose Center
GMA Network’s Corporate Affairs organized a build activity at the Angono Elementary School in Rizal with the network’s pool of employee/talent-volunteers, the GMA GIVES (Guide, Interact, Volunteer, Educate, Serve) on 01 June 2013. It was a day of fun and camaraderie as members of the GMA GIVES helped the GMA Kapuso Foundation finish the construction of the latter’s Kapuso Multi-Purpose Hall, which is being built under the Kapuso School Development Program. The municipality of Rizal is prone to excessive flooding owing to its location along the shores of Laguna Lake. In fact, it was one of the hardest hit areas during Typhoon Ondoy in 2009 and the unusual nasty northwest monsoon (habagat)
that hit in 2012. The GMAKF conducted an ocular inspection at that time and decided that the best way to help was by building a multi-purpose hall. This hall is envisioned to double as an evacuation site, when needed. This is the first volunteer activity for the year for GMA GIVES. Says Ma Teresa L. Pacis, AVP, Corporate Affairs, “This specific activity is one way that we can synergize with the Kapuso Foundation. Being under one network, it is important that we support each other. The Kapuso School Development Program is among the flagship programs of the Kapuso Foundation and our GMA GIVES are more than happy to lend a helping hand.” Some 50 volunteers, including Kapuso artists Mike Tan and Arni Ross, joined the day’s activity. Equipped with work gloves and simple construction tools, the volunteers did concreting, masonry and
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painting work. GMA GIVES (often called ka-GIVES), were excited to waterproof the watch catchment tank, lay hollow blocks at the stage and façade areas, plaster the stage and even paint the masonry wall.
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