Tayo na at mag-SILBI! Tayo na at mag-KFD!
27 Oct 2023 | Mr. Jomell L. Caramancion & Mr. Antonio B. Alinea
The Katipunan Fund Drive (KFD) is back with the eager smiles and helping hands of young Ateneans responding to the call to love and serve. Every year, the Ateneo Junior High School (AJHS) organizes its students to plan, develop, and execute fundraising activities through the KFD. Whether it's selling sorbetes, rice meals, cologne, and even tickets to concerts featuring world-class acts, the KFD brings students together for a greater cause.
KFD started in 1995 and was originally called the Pinatubo Fund Drive. It began as a fundraiser for the relief operations following the Pinatubo explosion. Now, it serves as a fund that is continually and actively replenished for calamity victims, Jesuit Missions, and CSIP partner schools and institutions. This long-standing Ateneo tradition now continues in its 16th year (excluding the two years of online set-up where AJHS had the Social Involvement Program in Action [SIPA] instead of the KFD) as 19 sections across four grade levels rise up to the call for service.
The theme for this school year’s KFD is SILBI: Silakbo ng pagtulong at bigkis ng pagpapahalaga sa bawat isa. Silbi’s dual meaning captures two values that we hope our students will live out. First, silbi means to serve, and it is hoped that after learning about the needs of our society through CSIP’s classroom sessions and off-campus activities, the KFD will serve as an opportunity to intensify the students’ desire to embrace their call to be servant leaders and catalysts of positive social transformation. The word silbi also means “worth.” Through serving and loving others, we find our true worth - being persons for and with others by developing our talents and relationships.
As a space where students are free to apply the values they learned and each class’ member is free to contribute his talents, KFD challenges Ateneans to reflect and live out being persons for and with others to intensify the love and service they can extend to those in the margins of our society.
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