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AFTER A YEAR: Tacloban and Leyteas of October 2014

A. LEYTE: Tacloban and nearby towns1) School Feeding Program2) Construction of Classrooms

3) Construction of Housing

B. GK (Gawad Kalinga) Sites in other Provinces 1) GK in other Post-Haiyan sites 2) GK Cox, Lupang Pangako, Payatas 3) GK St. Joseph, Cabiao, Nueva Ecija 4) GK Lanit, Iloilo

SCHOOLS AND CLASSROOMS SITUATION

San Roque, Tanauan 1: LEYTE

UNICEF Building (blue roof)

Two teachers working on a Sunday and Arnel, our guide.

San Roque ES, Tanauan, Classrooms donated by Mapua Univ Alums

Alang-Alang Central ES, many pupils still in UNICEF tents (getting frayed)

Alang-alang Central ES (Elementary School). There were 25 classrooms in the present empty lot.

Alang-Alang Central ES: 5 of needed 25 classrooms donated by Tan Yan Kee

Foundation

M. Casaus ES, Alang-alang. Two 2-classroom buildings from the Department of Education (green roofs).

Pupils still in UNICEF tents.

With District Supervisor and OIC of Central ES. DepEd classrooms in background

HOUSING SITUATION

Gawad Kalinga Pago Housing. 100 Houses have been built. Goal is 1200 in this site and in 2 others. For fishing families in San Roque, Tanauan

GK Pago Housing

Lunch with GK Staff in GK Pago

Values-Formation in the Tanauan Community Center for beneficiaries for GK Housing.

Families are from the fishing village of San Roque.

GK Libertad. The one GK Housing beside the national road. Beneficiaries come from nearby and are working hard so

the homes will be ready by Christmas (140 homes).

GK Libertad:beneficiaries and workers

GK San Agustin, Palo. My fourth visit to this site. 150 homes being funded by the Australian Government.

San Agustin is in the middle of rice-fields & beneficiaries are farm workers.

GK San Agustin. It was great to see the 150 houses going up..

There was a community assembly going on and so we had a chance to talk with them - including a discussion about providing school

feeding for their children and a project to control schistosomiasis.

The one big project with the National Housing Authority. NHA does the land development. 5,000 homes are to be built here for the families

from San Jose, Tacloban, the area most devastated by Typhoon Haiyan.

First 400 houses from GMA 7 (TV network) Kapuso Foundation.

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With the GOCO FAMILY and our team. They come from Sitio San Jose, Tacloban.

5,000 homes are to be built here. 3,000 fromTzu Chi Foundation, a Buddhist Foundation from Taiwan