AGSB and GAWAD KALINGA at Sta. Rosa, Laguna

      
Standing from right: Art Zamora, Richard Victoria, Gina Guerrero (in black, Plant Manager, Goldilocks, AGSB Sta. Rosa student), Mrs. Elvie Lozano (in blue, Interphil Lab., GK volunteer)
Standing far left: The Beneficiary with his family.
Seated from left: Mr. Pat Lozano, GK volunteer

Last October 21, 2006, Prof. Art Zamora of the Operations Management Cluster led a group from Ateneo-Regis off-campus site at Sta. Rosa Laguna, to help build a house in Gawad Kalinga’s Freedomville housing project in that locality. The house will benefit two families. This initiative is one of two houses pledged specifically by the Operations Management Cluster headed by Prof. Poly Ng. The funds that were used came from revenues of the Supply Chain Management Seminar spearheaded by the cluster.

Each of the various academic clusters of the AGSB took various initiatives to meet AGSB’s commitment to build 40 houses with Gawad Kalinga. This commitment is part of its 40th year anniversary celebration. The anniversary theme is: Our Country Is Our Business. This theme challenges businesses and individuals to actively participate in building the nation.

So far, donations in various forms have been given by AGSB to Gawad Kalinga. Total value donated far exceeded the initial pledge of 40 houses.

AGSB's 40th Year Gawad Kalinga

As part of its 40th anniversary celebration, the Ateneo Graduate School of Business continues its effort to raise forty (40) houses for Gawad Kalinga. This is a concrete manifestation of its commitment to respond to the challenge it poses to the business community as articulated in its theme: “Our Country Is Our Business”. The pledge of 40 houses represent the 40 years that AGSB has served the country by providing post-graduate education to business professionals, managers, owners and entrepreneurs. Realizing this commitment is a task not only carried out by the school’s administration but initiated by faculty and students who believed in the congruence of AGSB’s theme and GK’s vision for the country. So far, nineteen (19) houses were donated to GK and the task of making real the pledge continues. Here are some of the recent initiatives taken.

The MBA class of 2006 donated Php60,000. The initiative came from the students of the Regis program who thought of coming up with an on-line yearbook. Part of the subscription fees for said on-line facility was allocated to GK. Students enthusiasm on this project was evident that within two (2) weeks said money was raised.

Lafarge Inc. Philippines, through Ms. Maryanne Chiuco, a 2006 graduate and gold medalist of the Ateneo-Regis MBA program, also donated 600 bags of cement to GK Botolan, Zambales. The amount of bags donated are enough to build 8 GK houses. We expect more donations from students in the next few weeks.

Individual faculty gave an overwhelming response. Prof. Manny Solomon of the Finance cluster will donate a total of forty-four (44) hectares of land, twenty-three (23) hectares in Mabini, Pangasinan and twenty-one (21) hectares in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. This generous contribution is one of the many initiatives undertaken by the AGSB faculty in responding to challenge of nation building. In the past, faculty members gave free training services to the faculty of the University of Makati and the allotted faculty fees given to the building of two (2) GK houses. Other faculty members are giving their share in this fund raising activity.

To date, if we add up the value of all donations received, the amount will far exceed the peso value requirements to build 40 houses.

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Online Yearbook Project First House Donation Turnover to AGSB

Online Yearbook Project First House Donation Turnover to AGSB: Standing from L-R are Mr. Ricardo R. Palo, Curriculum Coordinator; Charlie A. Jorge, IT Manager; Associate Dean Alberto L. Buenviaje; representing the Ateneo-Regis Batch 2006, Mr. and Mrs. Jose and Angie Tuazon.