"Experts make GK look very intelligent, but at its heart GK is simple. It's about loving the poor." - Luis Oquinena, Gawad Kalinga Executive Director
"I gave from my abundance. She gave from her emptiness." - Joey Velasco, painter of Hapag ng Pag-Asa (Table of Hope, a re-expression of Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper), on his experience with Nene, a young girl he first met eating Jollibee leftover from the trash on her birthday.