Good Morning Kuya (GMK), the flagship morning public service and magazine show of UNTV, recently celebrated its anniversary by expanding the reach of its public service to the orphans, cancer-stricken, physically-disabled, and mentally-challenged kids.

To commemorate third year in television, the hosts and staff of Good Morning Kuya visited, among others, the cancer patients at the Philippine General Hospital (July 8) and the abandoned senior citizens at the Ang Dating Daan Orphanage (July 11).

GMK hosts and staff also feed malnourished children at Barangay Philam while over 100 mentally-challenged kids from several public schools in Malabon were given free tour to the Malabon Zoo.

Meanwhile, lunch and grocery items were given free to an estimated 200 disabled people at the Tahanang Walang Hagdan.

“In everything that we’re going to do, we should know what prompted us to do these things,” Kuya Daniel Razon, the lead host of the program, said, then added, “For me, the basic thing that prompts me is our obligation; it’s more of the obligation. If you know what is good and you don’t do it, then it is a sin,”

Unsurprisingly as a program that heightens the general welfare of Filipinos anywhere in the world, Southeast Asian Foundation for Children and Television recognized the program’s educational, entertainment, and child-friendly values. Last year, GMK was recipient of the Anak TV Seal.

With Kuya Daniel Razon at the helm, the Anak TV Seal awarded-program meanwhile announced that it has helped more than 200,000 people through its numerous public service since it was launched in July of 2007.

“It is imperative that you do the things, the good things that you know because it is going to be a sin unto you if you are not going to do them,” Mr. Razon, known also as Mr. Public Service, explained further.

At the program’s Klinika ni Kuya (Kuya’s Clinic), up to 66,296 people, for three years now, were given medical help and assistance that range from dental to pediatrics, minor surgery, x-ray, laboratory, ultrasound, dermatology, physical therapy, general medicine, ophthalmology, and optometry.

With satellite medical assistance centers set up from northern to southern Philippines, patients rendered with help reached 28,577 since the program was launched three years ago. At the Botika ni Kuya (Kuya’s Pharmacy), patients were also given free medicines.

Mobile clinics used for medical missions has registered that it accommodated health and medical problems of up to 50,000 patients nationwide since the program’s launch in 2007.

Law Center ni Kuya (Kuya’s Law Center), which gives free legal consultation, has assisted over 2,650 people. The idea for the law center sprang from Kuya Daniel’s experience and observation during his former television stint from another station about the big demand for legal help sought by poor Filipinos.

At the Transient Home, the show reported that 12,000 individuals and families were given help. The project provides free 24-hour place to spend the night, with free meals.

With the program’s free bus and jeepney ride project, more than 116,000 passengers were transported to their destinations. Food and Bible are given free. For the senior citizens, GMK tied-up with MRT to give them a free train ride.

The newly-launched La Verdad Christian College in Caloocan, a district north of Manila, granted full scholarship to 396 deserving but poor students. With full scholarship, students receive free meal, uniform, books and allowance.

Good Morning Kuya is shown Monday to Friday, from 4:45 a.m. to 9 a.m at UNTV.

Written by Chris Anne Gonzales