Antonio "Tony" Meloto is the founder of Gawad Kalinga, an international humanitarian movement that has built communities for the poorest of the poor in the Philippines. He received a BA in Economics from Ateneo de Manila University in 1971. Meloto began building homes for troubled families in 1999 and has expanded Gawad Kalinga to over 21,000 homes across the Philippines and in countries like Papua New Guinea and Cambodia.