Globe, a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines, through its Bangon Pinoy program partnered with Gawad Kalinga’s (GK) Bayan-Anihan Program to help rebuild the farms of three GK villages in Concepcion, Tarlac destroyed by floods triggered by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng.

Volunteers recently trooped to GK Amalia, GK HOLD International, and GK Ninoy Aquino in Barangay Talimundok, Concepcion, Tarlac to build farm fences, paint farm plot markers, and install compost sheds. Globe employee volunteers were given gear and farming implements to be used at the site. At the end of the day’s activity, tools such as shovels, rakes, saw, and other materials were turned over to the GK families as part of the rehabilitation assistance package.

Globe Bangon Pinoy is an integrated effort to help rebuild communities severely affected by natural calamities that recently affected the country. This includes relief operations, financial assistance, network restoration and a series of community-rebuilding activities.

GK Bayan-Anihan is a food sufficiency program that aims to put food on the table of each GK family. Backed by a multi-sectoral partnership led by GK and the Department of Agriculture, the program empowers families of urban poor and rural households in the country’s most hunger-prone provinces to become self-reliant by producing food for their own consumption. Launched this year, GK Bayan-Anihan is targeting to open a total of 2,500 farms in GK communities all over the country within the next three years. Globe adopted 35 GK Bayan-Anihan farms nationwide under this program targeting food sufficiency for 500,000 families.