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GMA Kapuso Foundation, the socio-civic arm of broadcast company GMA Network, marks the 16th year of its long-running annual school-opening project, the Unang Hakbang sa Kinabukasan (UHSK), by surpassing its target of Grade 1 pupils to be given complete sets of school supplies for the new school year.

Unang Hakbang sa Kinabukasan Courtesy of GMA Kapuso Foundation

July 26 2013

By GMAKF

GMA Kapuso Foundation, the socio-civic arm of broadcast company GMA Network, marks the 16th year of its long-running annual school-opening project, the Unang Hakbang sa Kinabukasan (UHSK), by surpassing its target of Grade 1 pupils to be given complete sets of school supplies for the new school year.

From May 16 to June 7, Kapuso Foundation teams were simultaneously deployed to distribute the school supplies in time for school opening. This year’s UHSK reached out to 75,039 incoming Grade 1 pupils, an unprecedented increase from last year’s 45,208 beneficiaries. Students from far-flung and underprivileged areas will now go to school with UHSK backpacks filled with five notebooks, two writing pads, two pencils, a sharpener, an eraser and a crayon set. It may be a simple gesture but it truly means a lot to those children who will definitely get inspired to learn and develop a sense of pride as they have their own materials to use.

The Foundation’s initiative serves to also help the parents from impoverished communities as providing for their children’s school supplies will no longer be a burden. “Through the continuing support and generosity of our donors, we are able to bring help and assistance, and even joy, to these children and, ultimately, their whole families,” enthused GMA Kapuso Foundation Executive Vice President and COO Mel Tiangco.

Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental are two of the places that had the most number of beneficiaries with a combined total of more than 10,000 backpacks handed out. The two areas were the hardest-hit places by typhoon Pablo that ravaged Northern Mindanao December of last year. Expectedly, morale was low, as government officials said that it would take more than three years for the region to fully recover. But the Foundation’s presence and UHSK’s continuing support for the schoolchildren brought a glimmer of normalcy to the otherwise devastated state that the areas are understandably in.

In line with the thrust to “strengthen their resolve”, the Foundation has surpassed their target number of beneficiaries this year proving once again that UHSK is a project that is dedicated to assisting the most vulnerable students. “We are truly grateful for the confidence and the trust of our donors and beneficiaries that inspire us to achieve greater heights as we go above and beyond our duties to bring help and assistance to those who need them the most,” Tiangco happily shared.

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