more than an award

"In electing the Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation and its family of donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries to receive the 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, the board of trustees recognizes their harnessing the faith and generosity of Filipinos the world over to confront poverty in their homeland and to provide every Filipino the dignity of a decent home and neighborhood."
- The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation

More than the awards, the praises and the media spots that GK has been getting here and there, it's the number of lives being changed that makes us want to continue the work. Whoever thought that the small youth program in Bagong Silang would grow up and spread this fast to other towns and even other countries. We set the bar so high that we felt that we have too little time and too little resources. But look where we are now. It seems that we no longer have control on this beautiful disease, the disease of loving our country. So to all the people involved in GK, we should never stop dreaming and not only to simply dream, but to dream BIG!