GK Builders Corps: Love for God, Love for Country, Love for the Poor Vision and Mission
The Gawad Kalinga Builders Corps develops future leaders in sustainable community development
by molding the natural talents of its volunteers into organic solutions to poverty, empowering
them to give their best for the least.
Gawad Kalinga Builders Corps is committed to nurturing faith, loving the poor, developing servant
leaders, and fostering community building among global citizens through full-time volunteer service
throughout a 1-2 year commitment.
What is GK Builders Corps?
Full-time volunteers committed to serving for 1-2 years
Live, work, and grow in a GK Community
Nurture your faith by loving God through service to the poor
Make a significant contribution to the poverty alleviation programs of GK
Offer your gifts, training, and expertise to the poor while furthering your skills in your career field
Develop leadership skills to continue making a difference in the future
Usually degreed professionals with big minds, but bigger hearts.
Who are GK Builders Corps?
Gawad Kalinga Builders Corps are committed volunteers that desire to live their faith through service
to the poor. GKBC volunteers are redefining "elite" to be a standard of servant leadership focused on
using the best talents and the greatest gifts to empower the poor to lift themselves out of poverty.
Their desire to love God and serve the poor opens them to encountering the divine in the human
relationships that grow where service happens. Understanding that only by working together can we
eradicate poverty, GKBC volunteers commit to working and growing in a community, not only sharing
their gifts, but also learning and growing from the gifts of others around them. GKBC are infused
with a hope and belief that, despite adversity, we can build a better world. Their free-thinking
idealism provides the courage to try new ideas, the energy to learn from failures, and the inspiration
to keep improving on successes. These are God-given gifts which GK Builders Corps volunteers desire to
mold and use for the benefit of all, especially for the poor among us, who are the greatest in God's kingdom.
Welcome, Joanne!
Joanne is originally from Caloocan, Philippines and then moved to San Francisco when she was 17
years old where she graduated with a degree in Nursing from California State University Hayward
and got her training at Stanford University. She became a village builder in 2006 with her brother
as she desired to love and serve the Philippines even while living in the US. She still felt a calling
to love the Philippines, so she joined the first batch of GK Builders Corps in August 2007 as she
committed to volunteer for 2 years. After loving the GK Residents in Bacolod, she felt a calling to
serve more permanently. In February 2008, Joanne made the decision to become a GK Fulltime Worker
based in Manila to develop GK Health. She was assigned to be the Partnership Coordinator for Health,
GKal USA Coordinator and help Gkal startup in GK sites in Central Luzon. God blessed her work, not
only she found the peace and joy in her life but also blessed to find her future partner in life.
She is now engaged to be wed in February 2009 to another GK Fulltime Worker.
Welcome, Joanne, to the GK family!
Meet Jonathan.
Jonathan Wittig started serving on April 1st as an ANCOP fulltime misson worker, taking on the role of Development Director to look after:
- GK1mb Universities, - GK Builders Corps, - GK Productivity & Merchandise, and - National WowGK Events.
Jonathan is originally from San Antonio,
Texas and now resides in Chicago. He graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a degree in Marketing and minors in Theology and International
Studies. He was introduced to GK through the CFC Youth For Christ on campus, joined GK Hero's Run in Chicago in 2005, and saw it first hand when
he joined the June 2006 GK Build in Quirino. He just came back from the Philippines earlier this year after serving for six months as a GK
Builders Corps volunteer.
