Tony Meloto
Tony Meloto is the founder of Gawad-Kalinga(literally means “Give Care”), a non-profit organization that builds houses for poor communities and helps rehabilitate the lives of people in need. Since its founding in 1995, Gawad Kalinga has grown to become an international humanitarian movement dedicated to eradicating poverty and rehabilitating the lives of people from slum areas in the Philippines and now, also in other developing countries. Gawad Kalinga has built 21,759 homes in 1,253 villages all over the Philippines and in parts of Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and other developing countries. Tony was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2006 for his amazing work in eradicating poverty and for “inspiring Filipinos to believe with pride that theirs can be a nation without slums.”
