There is an estimated 1.3 billion people living in poverty around the world, many of them living in the streets, railways, riverbanks and sewers.  In the Philippines alone, at least 4.5 million Filipinos are homeless, 75% of which are informal settlers in main urban centers, while the rest who live in urban areas live in danger zones and disaster-prone areas, making them vulnerable to landslides and flooding.

Aside from the lack of security of tenure, homeless families are forced to live in a slum environment, exposing them to a variety of serious sanitary and health issues, especially children.  They also have to endure either the lack or high cost of basic utilities, high criminality rate, and other negative socio-economic forces that further degrade their dignity as human beings.

GK’s Community Infrastructure Program or CIP seeks to restore dignity by providing shelter and community infrastructures such as multi-purpose halls, health clinics, and Sibol (preschool) buildings where the GK community can begin to live with dignity.  GK’s CIP  program ensures that families have security of tenure in the communities we build on, and we ensure that these areas are not prone to physical and environmental disasters. 

Given the magnitude of the problem and the great number of people that need a home, the program builds with excellence, scale and efficiency so we can help more families in need.  If the values formation is the foundation for the GK community, the CIP program is the most visible and palpable physical expression of the transformation of the residents.