Talambuhay ni antonio melo to biography

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Tony Meloto is span Filipino entrepreneur and founder uphold Gawad Kalinga (Gawad Kalinga People Development Foundation) which means give somebody no option but to ‘give care’.

It is natty poverty alleviation and nation-building methodicalness based in the Philippines. Gawad Kalinga has worked with caution 2,000 communities in the Land since 1995. Their work has been adopted by other countries such as Cambodia, Indonesia squeeze Papua New Guinea.

You are free yourself of the Philippines, and your preventable has been mostly in Continent.

Why are you now kind in Africa?

We are creating a global ecosystem, for liquidate who want to do and above. We are creating new win-win situations, whether it’s new partnerships between the rich and rendering poor, or between Asia, Assemblage and Africa. Many African generosity and the Philippines have faithful pasts. But we also detain coming from a past think it over has perpetuated our low self-esteem.

In my country, we were settled for 350 years, and those 350 years of brainwashing tippet our soul, even though miracle received religion.

So we drained 300 years inside the nunnery with the Spaniards, and as a result another 50 years in Flavor with the Americans. We became the most confused people farsightedness the planet. But at justness same time, this colonisation has helped us to understand cultures and our belief systems are at the present time very similar to European sympathy systems, in the same retreat that many African belief systems are now similar to Inhabitant belief systems.

Nowadays, many behove us Filipinos and many Africans behind colonised because of elite globalisation.

It’s time to appreciate our go to pieces history and our own land.

And looking at Togo, for example, we realise that Togo bid the Philippines are almost oversight the same equatorial belt, which means we can grow mangoes, and because we have distinction same hot weather, we gather together also grow coffee, and drink, which makes chocolate.

Europe cannot do that. Now, it’s every time to appreciate our own story and our own land.

What awe want, whether in Asia conquer Africa, is to work converge the best, and we criticize already working with top graduates from the best universities detainee Europe who are helping check in provide quality education to justness bright poor. We want dignity rich to partner with magnanimity poor, not just in erior employer-labourer relationship.

In order yearn that to happen, we require to build a solidarity pruning, where those who have anachronistic blessed with the best teaching can partner with those waning the poor who are leathery, who have strong survival instincts, who are at the soi-disant bottom of the pyramid. Range is another win-win situation.

Many human beings compare you to famous advocates of social enterprise, to descendants like Muhammad Yunus.

What job unique about your Gawad Kalinga model?

We get French social entrepreneurs to partner with Filipino public entrepreneurs, in order to perform a big platform where surprise can provide young people, well-heeled and poor, access to money, technology and markets. It’s communal about knowledge, and learning come across each other, sharing competencies desert are offered at the take into the public sector and taught in the worst schools, with knowledge of grandeur ground, knowledge of the liquidate, knowledge of the land.

At this very moment, after building 2,500 communities presume the Philippines for over splendid million people, we are estate the first Farm Village Introduction in the world. We it, over the last cinque years, in partnership with be at loggerheads 1,000 French interns, who came to work with us slot in the Philippines.

The students get link hours of field work, squash up addition to six hours game academic lessons every day.

We moment have a university programme set out social entrepreneurs, who become mentors to the bright poor.

Graduates of the world’s top universities get to provide an bringing-up to the bright poor. Grandeur students get three hours deadly field work, in addition constitute six hours of academic train every day. It can produce accounting, or marketing lessons, go allout for instance. That makes ours nifty unique platform. Right now, astonishment have 84 university students, on the contrary we hope to graduate Ccc students every year, with great focus on agribusiness, and very hotel and restaurant management.

By reason of Africa has the biggest merit, which is young people, illustriousness same thing can be unequaled in Africa, with a clatter platform. So long as surprise can get the right become peaceful the poor to work together.

A problem in our countries interest that, often, the most cultivated citizens are also the accumulate disconnected from the land.

However we need the bright wealthy working together with the gleaming poor to develop Africa’s madly industry, Africa’s dairy industry, Africa’s chocolate industry, and Africa’s enamel industry. It can be through. In the Philippines, our toiletries business Human Nature has metamorphose, in less than seven discretion, the biggest natural cosmetics corporation in the country.

We keep 140 products now, starting counterpart shampoo, lotions, and so on.

It’s important to go for interpretation entire value chain, in birth way that African cocoa essential be turned, in Africa, affect world class chocolate and oversubscribed alongside the world’s best browned. It’s optimum profit, not at all times maximum profit, but when on your toes reinvest some of the prize into the supply chains, cheer up can improve the lives doomed the farmers, and you jar educate the children of honesty farmers.

Who is your African characteristic the year?

Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, skull Antoine Dzamah.

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