Kara David - Project Malasakit

Project Malasakit

Last 2002, she founded “Project Malasakit” – a non-stock non-profit foundation that sends poor Filipino children to school. It also embarks on community outreach programs that gives food, medicine and school supplies to remote communities who do not have access to basic government service. Project Malasakit now has 15 scholars (most of them child laborers and victims of child abuse). It has also helped more than 800 families thru its quarterly outreach programs. Aside from this, Kara has also embarked on long-term projects for communities.

Her documentary on waterless communities in Masbate“ParaisongUhaw” has led to the construction of 10 water wells – sources of potable water in the poor municipality of Balud. Kara and her Project Malasakit team were also instrumental in constructing a sustainable solar power facility ina community of Mangyans in Mindoro Province. The poor community featured in her celebrated documentary “ambulansyang de paa” was once inaccessible to government service, but thru the help of Kara’s Project Malasakit, hope is now within reach. Proof that the potential of media lies not only in its power to educate people and expose the problems of society – media can also be a tool to inculcate compassion and inspire others to help in nation-building.