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GK Foundation
For those who don’t know Gawad Kalinga or the Gk foundation is a charitable organization that started in the Philippines. Its aim is to build decent self sustaining communities for the homeless in the country. This program or brand is one of the most successful.

Lack of Organization
Right now, there is a lack of organizational structure in Gawad Kalinga. The project blew up to unexpected heights. They perhaps did not expect things to go this way. Now, Gawad Kalinga has partnerships with well to do Filipinos all over the world. The organization also has the participation of the biggest industries in the Philippines. It now has partnership with the two major mobile telecommunications services in the country. The problem of GK in organization is that there are so many far flung cells around the country managed by local GK volunteers. It is also a little complicated for those who want to volunteer in the GK foundation. This is especially true if you are just a small group or even individuals that want to help out. GK usually uses pools of volunteers from schools, companies, and other large groups. They cannot handle small numbers of sporadic volunteers.

Voncore Solutions and Gawad Kalinga
The GK foundation is partnering with an outsourcing company called Voncore Philippines in order to address its organizational problem. Voncore will provide software solutions for GK in order to nip the organizational nightmare in the butt. Websites will be set up in order to standardize and organize the process of volunteering for GK as well as donating money to the organization.

New Vision
The new vision of GK is to eradicate poverty in the Philippines, then after the Philippines, to eradicate poverty in the world. Already there are small GK foundation communities in places in Asia, Europe, and Australia.
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