Gawad Kalinga
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| Formation | July 28, 2003 (date incorporated) |
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| Type | Nation Building Movement |
| Headquarters | Ground Floor, Cheng Building, 212 Haig Strteet, Brgy. Daang-Bakal, Mandaluyong City, Philippines 1552 |
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Executive Director
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Jose Luis Oquinena |
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Key people
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Antonio Meloto (Founder) |
| Mission | Ending poverty for 5 million poor families by 2024 |
| Website | http://gk1world.com |
Gawad Kalinga (GK) ("to give care" in Tagalog) 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.
In 1999, Couples for Christ built the first GK house for the Adduru family from Bagong Silang, a barangay in which the organization had previously held poverty programs. The name "Gawad Kalinga", which translates in the Filipino language either as "to give care" or "to award care," was coined in 2000.
The first GK Expo was launched on October 4, 2003, in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City. During this gathering, GK launched a campaign called the GK777 campaign to build 700,000 homes in 7,000 communities for 7 years.
On February 25, 2006, GK launched the Isang Milyong Bayani ("One Million Heroes", also known as GK1MB) program, where volunteers from various nations would donate 4 hours of work per month to assist in GK communities. The program includes an annual event called the GK1MB Bayani Challenge, a one-week national immersion/build activity, where volunteers within the program come together to build homes in a GK community for a week. The Bayani Challenge has been held in Aurora Province and Quezon Province (2006); Albay, Camarines Sur, Sorsogon, Marinduque, and Samar (2007);Bukidnon and Lanao del Sur (2008); and Sulu and Zamboanga City (2009).
GK began as a ministry of CFC, but as it grew into a national and now worldwide presence, disagreement within the organization grew regarding its alleged secularization. On February 20, 2007, Antonio Meloto and Francisco Padilla resigned from their posts in GK. Two months later, on Easter Day, Padilla released a statement alleging that Gawad Kalinga was responsible for alleged failures of CFC in its mission of evangelization. In this statement, he enumerated 18 points to support his conclusion, including involvement with Mormons, acceptance of donations from pharmaceutical companies that produce contraceptives, gradual secularization and erosion of CFC's presence, and excessive acknowledgment of Meloto as "founder and father" of GK.
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