Fund Your Way Program: Take a Chance, Make a Change

Fund Your Way Program: Take a Chance, Make a Change

Fund Your Way Program: Take a Chance, Make a Change


As part of GSCWD’s Corporate Social Responsibility, which is to help the public uplift its living by giving an access to safe water, Community Relations Section launched its Fund Your Way Program, with its tagline “Take the Chance, Make a Change”. It aimed for the young leaders to create a project that can serve as an immediate solution, if not permanent but at least a temporary answer to the water problems of the people in a rural community.

 

Different groups of college students visited rural communities in GenSan to which most of its settlers belong to the marginalized group and came up with project proposals that can help them gain access to safe water.

 

3 groups were chosen to present their proposals to the management of General Santos City Water District last March 15, 2019. The awarding was held at Robinsons Mall, GenSan. The team from Mindanao Polytechnic College placed 3rd and defended the technicalities of their study which was the “Design, Fabrication and Testing of Hydraulic Ram Pump” at Sitio Banualan, Brgy. San Jose. Two lucky teams from Rotaracts Club of Holy Trinity College showed their confidence and eagerness to win the contest, as they presented stories of people suffering from lack of access to safe water. The “Windmill for Water” proposal got the 2nd place while” Arise the Living Water” proposal bagged 1st place.

 

“Arise the Living Water” project aimed to give safe water access to the community in Prk. 20, Panayaman, Brgy. Tinagacan. The people from the said purok suffers from water scarcity wherein they wake up every 2 o’clock in the morning and walk a distance of almost 2 kilometers just to get safe water for their families.

GSCWD hopes that the young researchers who joined the fund your way program will be the new partners of the District, in its advocacy to promote awareness on water conservation, water preservation and most especially on the current situation of the rural communities in our City.

 

“We know that young people of today are great influencers. We hope that even without the fund your way program, they can still make a change on the lives of other people through their own little way”, said Engr. Arn B. Gellangarin, General Manager.
Let us not let anyone, be left behind, hand in hand, let’s take the chance and start making change in our community.

 

By Tessa Mae M. Alejado

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