What is Gawad Kalinga(GK)?
Gawad Kalinga is best define by its Culture of Caring and Sharing viewpoint below:
"Poverty is not a lack of resources, but a lack of caring and sharing."
Poverty happens when people forget to care for their fellowmen. It is a consequence of our collective failure to be our brother and sister's keeper. Content with our own lives and our circle of family and friends, we overlook the needs of our neighbor, failing to recognize that we are part of one big family. To love ourselves is to also care for other people's needs, to be afforded the same opportunities that have been given us.
The GK solution to end poverty is deeply anchored on the values of caring and sharing. Love must overflow from our homes into the world.
As a concrete expression of faith in action, founded on love for God and neighbor, GK seeks to restore the dignity of the poor through a culture of caring and generosity.
GK believes that by being a hero to others in need, we can bring our countries out of poverty. Seeking to give care to communities in need, GK adheres to the Filipino saying: "Walang Iwanan" or no one should be left behind. As our brother's keeper, we will help one another by giving the Best for the Least, in a spirit of service and friendship.
With a lifestyle of heroism founded on caring and sharing, GK inspires and engages its workers, partners and volunteers to give the best of themselves in talents, skills, time and resources to help the poor reach their fullest potentials.
At the end of the day, GK is all about caring for the world's marginalized and restoring their human dignity by providing them with a beautiful, healthy, green and productive GK communities.
A friend of mine is GK builder and has an GK build in Bulaklakan, Quezon City. Below is a forum post in www.kerygmafamily.com/forum asking for help from interested individuals:
Our sister here in the forum would like to ask for your time and your strong bodies for a Gawad Kalinga Project... If you can and you have time to share please PM or email sis maria28 aka the upcoming projects are below(from sis maria28):
GK Build @ GK Bulaklakan, QC on Sept 25, 2010.. meet-up at Xavier Hall, ADMU 7am ^^ be in your working/building clothes such as gloves, hats or caps, bring sunblock, water..
You can sign up also for the:
CG - Gawad Kalinga Team LOJ
Sign-ups @ Valle Verde Country Club
[after feasts]
flexi sked.. we'll meet at preferred place and time..
SO GUYS SIGN UP NA FOR THE GAWAD KALINGA TEAM LOJ 
Some inspiring blog post about GK's mission to end poverty
source: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/none/the-politics-of-gawad-kalinga-foundation-500888/
The Gawad Kalinga Foundation is a charitable organization that has succeeded in building one hundred and fifty thousand homes all over the Philippines. Such an impressive accomplishment is not something that can be ignored. GK is really an exciting project that boldly targets to remove poverty from the nation entirely. It even set a deadline for this target: 2024. It Gawad Kalinga can stand the test of time, then this new kind of template for business social civic responsibility should really be applauded.
The new vision of GK is to eradicate poverty in the Philippines, then after the Philippines, to eradicate poverty in the world.
No one can deny the miracle that Gawad Kalinga has done for the Philippines. Aside from helping the poor, it has also opened the eyes of so many Filipinos to the stark realities plaguing our country and the possibilities of solving these problems. Indeed, GK1MB or Gawad Kalinga Isang Milyong Bayani (Gawad Kalinga, One Million Heroes) is actively working towards the realization of the GK goal of having a slum-free nation.
Gawad Kalinga: A bridge to one’s housing dreams
Gawad Kalinga founder Tony Meloto said their work of building houses means creating social and environmental opportunities for the less fortunate as well as instilling honesty and integrity.
“You don't just promise them hope but let them see the hope,” he said.
Meloto said Gawad Kalinga served as a bridge for investment and an inspiration to other countries like Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, and Indonesia to build their own villages.
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