Antonio melo to biography gawad kalinga

Asia’s vast cities-of-the-poor are visible proof of a hard fact. Despite decades of economic development programs and foreign aid and the earnest efforts of foundations and NGOs, not to mention the sweet promises of politicians, great millions of people in Asia still live in poverty.

Antonio melo to biography gawad kalinga

In the Philippines, nearly half of the country’s 84 million people are credibly said to live below the poverty line. Forty percent of its urban families occupy what the Asian Development Bank calls “makeshift dwellings in informal settlements.” Slums, in other words.

ANTONIO MELOTO believes these disheartening facts reveal his country’s failure “to work for the collective good.” As executive director of GAWAD KALINGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, he is changing this.

Born to humble circumstances in Bacolod, Central Philippines, ANTONIO MELOTO attended Ateneo de Manila University on a scholarship and embarked upon a successful career in bus