Sinigayan Village

Before the Transformation :

For so many years, families living along the seashores in Barangay Old Sagay, Sagay City, none owned a permanent house or lot , nor any of them able to provide sufficient food and education from their children. Their houses are made of light materials mostly are considered just  like shanties. It leaks when its raining and they don’t have electricity also.

The Transformation :

Align with the  national government thrust for housing programs, Sagay City government under the leadership of then Hon. Mayor Leo M. Cueva, donated a two-hectare lot in hacienda  Vazquez, Barangay Old Sagay, as GK site for selected poor families , mostly fisher folks whose ir meager earning are just enough for food and could never afford to build a decent house.

To lead by example, the city government through the Sinigayan Foundation donated for 10 ten houses besides from the resources provided for site development.  Generous families from the
locality also have donated several   houses.

GK team has already built several   houses, of which most   are already occupied. There are over a dozen families have signified to volunteer and relocate on this site when there are available funding for more houses.

Peace Village

Before the Transformation :

For so many years, Negros Island is known to be home of  sugar farm workers. However, of the so many years of families that tirelessly tilled the land, none owned a home or lot, nor were any of them able to provide sufficient food or education for their children. As a last resort, some of them joined the communist armed group – New People’s Army  to wage war against  the government and the landlords for the implementation of genuine land reform, with the hope that they can owned a lot and build a house which they could called a home of their own. Their life move from place to place to escape military operation or chance to initiate an attack to gain firearms and ammunitions.  To some this struggle is still going-on but  some has returned to the fold of the law and able to find peace in this village.

The Transformation :

From the generosity of a sugar farm land owner who donated a two-hectare land, a new community has risen in Barangay Bonifacio, Sagay City. Now GK Peace Village is a community where a real “PEACE” exist. Home to a number NPA rebel returnees and family and some sugar farm workers from the neighboring haciendas, they lived with sense of security, no longer afraid of being ambush or attacked by military.  Once they slept and eat in shanties and move from time to time and be away from their family most of the time, now they live in concrete houses together with their families.

There are numerous houses, two-room school building for pre-schooler, a social hall and a mission center. Majority of these houses and facilities  are donated by a Filipino Chinese benefactor and his friends and the rest from a generous family in the local community.