How To Help
Like in all aspects of Gawad Kalinga work, Gawad Kalusugan does not discriminate with regard to who can help and what they can do to whichever GK site they want to be involved with. GKal highly encourages health professionals and those in the healthcare and related industries to spearhead and jumpstart the health program of GK.

Help can be as simple as holding clinic in a GK site for two hours once a month. See patients, look at their illnesses, take care of their concerns, give medical advise, dispense medicine. Two hours a month already mean a lot to the residents.
Or better yet, encourage colleagues and friends to join medicine and medical equipment donation drives and/or devote clinic hours in the Gawad Kalinga villages nearest you. The more, the merrier.

Tie-up with GK and GKal people to conduct public health lectures on how to preventive illnesses and how to manage simple medical conditions. Knowledge, after all, is power.
Or if you can’t physically go to a GK village because you are in the United States, or if you want a bigger institutional participation, here are additional ways you can help:
PHP 1,200.00 or US$24.00 is enough to pay for a whole family’s PhilHealth or social insurance premium for one year.
PHP 2,000.00 or US$40.00 can already feed a malnourished child one hot meal a day, five days a week, for 24 weeks.
PHP6,000.00 or US$120.00 can take care of the 6-month anti-TB treatment of a child stricken with tuberculosis.
PHP100,000.00 or US$2,000.00 can help put in place a water purification facility that ensure clean water supply for 50 families.
PHP240,000.00 or US$4,800.00 can pay for a year’s compensation of a full-time doctor who will oversee the implementation of Gawad Kalusugan programs in a particular GK site or cluster of adjacent GK sites.
For more information, please send an email to info@gawadkalusugan.org.
The list above is but a sample of how anybody and everybody can be a healer and a hero for health. The task of building healthy communities towards building a healthy nation is daunting but not impossible. As we assess our individual as well as collective strength and resources, it becomes very clear that the possibilities for helping the poorest of the poor and being a blessing to them are endless.
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