Gawad Kalinga is a Philippine non-profit foundation that aims to end poverty for 5 million families by 2024. It focuses on building cohesive communities through various programs like providing housing, access to clean water and food, youth development, and supporting social businesses. Gawad Kalinga employs community organizing and capacity building to empower communities to work towards prosperity. It has helped over 21,000 communities across the Philippines since being founded in 1995 by Antonio Meloto.

1. GAWAD
KALINGA
F O U N D A T I O N
Presented by
IAN CAMILLE C. SABANGAN
DPA Student
Professor
JOSEFINA B. BITONIO, DPA

2. WHAT IS GAWAD
KALINGA FOUNDATION?
Gawad Kalinga is a Philippine
poverty alleviation and nation-
building movement known
officially as the Gawad Kalinga
Community Development
Foundation. Its mission is to
end poverty for 5 million
families by 2024.

3. MISSION AND
VISION
Gawad Kalinga is building a nation empowered by people
with faith and patriotism; a nation made up of caring and
sharing communities, dedicated to eradicate poverty and
restore human dignity. The GK Foundation aims to engage at
least 20,000 barangays through our platforms of solidarity,
resulting in millions of lives transformed and hope stories

4. BRIEF HISTORY
The goal to eradicate poverty began in Bagong
Silang, Caloocan, with a youth ministry camp
for juvenile delinquents. Spending time with
those who are deemed misfits by society led to
an awareness of the core cause of the social
issue we were attempting to solve: poverty is a
crisis of social isolation as well as an economic
disaster. It took time, presence, and sacrifice to
change hearts and lives.

5. FOUNDER
Antonio Meloto has a Degree in Economics
from Ateneo de Manila University,
Philippines. He is the Founder and
Chairman of Gawad Kalinga Community
Development Foundation.
Antonio is the recipient of the Ramon
Magsaysay Award for Community
Leadership (2006); Ernst & Young
Philippines' Social Entrepreneur of the
Year (2010); Schwab Foundation for Social
Entrepreneurship (2010); and the Nikkei
Asia Prize for Regional Growth (2011). His
interests include social entrepreneurship
and community development.
Antonio Meloto

6. TWO DECADES OF THE FOUNDATION
LAYING THE
FOUNDATION VALUES
(1995-2009)
BUILDING PLATFORMS
OF SOLIDARITY
(2010-2019)
PUSHING THE
BOUNDARIES
(2020 AND BEYOND)
The work started in 1995 even before Gawad Kalinga was officially formed into
an organization in 2003. Walk through our history as we mark important
milestones and learnings from two decades of walang iwanan.

7. PROGRAMS
The GK Foundation try to build
platforms where everyone can
work together to address the
different facets of poverty.
PLATFORMS OF
SOLIDARITY

8. PLATFORMS OF SOLIDARITY
BUILDING COHESIVE
AND RESILENT
COMMUNITIES
SHELTHER AND
LAND SECURITY
CHILD AND YOUTH
DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH AND WELL
BEING
SOCIAL BUSINESS
AND FAMILY
PRODUCTIVITY

9. BUILDING COHESIVE AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES
GAWAD KALINGA BUILDER INSTITUTION
GK COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
At the core of our work in ending poverty is the organizing and
capacity building of each community. This involves
establishing local leadership and conversing with the
members to ensure that everyone is aligned in their vision of
prosperity and in the ways to achieve that vision.

10. BUILDING COHESIVE AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES
GK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COORDINATOR SUPPORT
Gawad kalinga assigns community development coordinators
(CDCS) to poor communities to be their partners and mentors
in their journey out of poverty. The CDCC check on the
communities on a monthly basis, roll out trainings and
facilitate implementation of the different programs under GK’s
platforms of solidarity.

11. SHELTER AND LAND SECURITY
GK VILLAGES
Gawad Kalinga Foundation is providing them with a decent
home and a peaceful environment where their families can
flourish will allow them to anchor their dreams on a future that
is full of hopeful possibilities.

12. CHILD AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
KUSINA NG KALINGA (CARE KITCHENS)
Kusina ng Kalinga (KNK) is Gawad Galinga’s strategic response
to address chronic hunger and malnutrition among Filipino
children ages 0 to 12 years old and pregnant and lactating
mothers.

13. CHILD AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
MALETA LIBRARY
The GK Maleta Library is a program that will promote reading
to poor children who have limited access to books. A suitcase
of books is sent to a community where the kids get to borrow
and enjoy them for 1 month before it is passed on to the next
set of children who will benefit from them.

14. CHILD AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
SipaG
The GK Foundation have successfully executed a football
sports program nationwide that trains adolescents within
schools or communities to play competitive football through
SipaG.

15. CHILD AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
School for Experiential and
Entrepreneurial Development
(SEED Philippines)
The School for Experiential and Entrepreneurial Development
(SEED Philippines) aims to raise the next generation of agri-
entrepreneurs that will cultivate and create wealth out of our
land. Its focus on countryside development attempts to
address poverty where it is most acute, reach the people who
are most neglected, and grab the opportunities that remain
untapped.

16. HEALTH AND WELL BEING
DALOY NG PAG-ASA
(CLEAN WATER FOR COMMUNITIES)
Access and availability of safe water is critical to our health
and well-being, especially during these times when simple
sanitation practices such as handwashing can save lives.

17. HEALTH AND WELL BEING
GOODBYE GUTOM
Hunger is a common experience among the poor. Food
becomes dispensable if they have other pressing expenses,
which means they have to sacrifice their meals and their
health along with it.

18. HEALTH AND WELL BEING
YAMANG KALUSUGAN
Health is not a priority for the poor because their attention is
focused on fulfilling their basic needs so the quality of their
life and their general wellbeing is not as important as their
ability to survive in the first place.

19. SOCIAL BUSINESS AND FAMILY PRODUCTIVITY
BayanAnihan
Providing production, marketing, and logistics assistance to
farmers

20. GK FOUNDATION
REACH
LUZON VISAYAS
10, 590
Barangays
in 33
Provinces
MINDANAO
6,214
Barangays
in 14
Provinces
4,671
Barangays
in 22
Provinces

21. GET INVOLVE!
LUZON VISAYAS MINDANAO
GET INVOLVED IN THREE WAYS
VOLUNTEER IN A
COMMUNITY
SUPPORT A
PROGRAM
SUPPORT A
COMMUNITY
PROJECT

22. GK PARTNERS

23. IMPORTANCE OF NGO'S IN
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
They can work to promote
social or political change on a
broad scale or very locally.
NGOs play a critical part in
developing society,
improving communities, and
promoting citizen
participation.

24. REFERENCES
LUZON VISAYAS MINDANAO
https://www.gk1world.com/home
https://learning.candid.org/resources/knowledge-base/ngo-definition-and-
role/#:~:text=They%20can%20work%20to%20promote,to%20the%20Sustainable%20D
evelopment%20Goals
https://www.britannica.com/topic/nongovernmental-organization

25. THANK YOU
F O R L I S T E N I N G