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BUILDING COMMUNITIES TO END POVERTY

GK Summer Builds
Make your summer count! Join a GK summer build and be part of our global army of nation-builders! Create a real impact and be part of a community's journey out of poverty.

No Child Left Behind
Help the children of Basilan build their dreams! With only Php 1,200 you can help rebuild classrooms and bring quality education for the next generation of peace-builders.

Typhoon Pablo Reconstruction
Join GK’s reconstruction efforts for the Typhoon Pablo victims. Together, we can repair the schools damaged by the typhoon and build new homes for the survivors.






PROSPER WITH HONOR: Faith and Development in the Philippines

Things are starting to look up in the Philippines: the economy is rising, investments are flowing, tourists are coming. But the challenge remains: how to bring development down to the masses so the squatters will have decent homes, the idle will have jobs, the land will yield abundance so no one is left hungry. The biggest challenge in a developing economy is how to prosper without making money our god. With money as our master, we can buy pleasure but lose our soul and, ultimately, our happiness and peace.


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Rizal Technological University Partners with GK Mandaluyong for Grassroots Football
The partnership enables both RTU and GK not just in promoting football but also in pushing the GK kids to be better and productive citizens of our country through the football discipline.
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Bayani Brew: Saving the day for farming communities everywhere
Brewing a generation of Filipinos “batshit-crazy in love” with the Philippines. Led by an IT executive who quit his job, a lawyer who has taken a hiatus, and a Gawad Kalinga worker who manages farm-based businesses, a new brand of iced teas is set to accomplish this considerable feat.
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A Different Kind of Battle
Peace shouldn’t just be the burden of the Armed Forces. It’s not just the duty of my father, of Col. Galvez, and of all the other soldiers who were there. Peace shouldn’t just be the burden of the people in Basilan either. Peace is a burden all Filipinos should carry in their hearts. And until we get to that beautiful, poverty-free Philippines that each and every Filipino can be proud of, until we wake up to that peaceful Philippines where each and every Filipino is free to speak, to dream and where no one is left behind, we shouldn’t stop.
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ENDING POVERTY FOR 5 MILLION FAMILIES BY 2024
“Gawad Kalinga,” translated in English means to “give care”, is a Philippine-based movement that aims to end poverty by first restoring the dignity of the poor. It employs an integrated and holistic approach to empowerment  with values-formation and leadership development at its core. Established in 2003, The Foundation currently works with over 2,000 communities and has been recognized as the 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee & 2012 Skoll Awardee for Social Entrepreneurship.


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