Kaisa joined the Gawad Kalinga (GK) 777 project as a GK partner in October 2003. The numbers stand for building 700,000 houses in 7,000 communities in seven years. It is a massive response to grinding poverty that faces a vast majority of our countrymen today. GK envisions empowered communities whose residents are not just recipients but are givers as well. The work is not about dole-out charity, but stewardship. It is about uplifting the dignity of the poor by building their capacity to respond to the opportunities and enabling them to reach their highest potential.

The task of nation-building is indeed massive, but the challenge is not insurmountable if all Filipinos learn to work together. Not one group or agency can do it alone. Government is not hopeless, but it is helpless without the support of civil society. Each Filipino must take part in realizing the dream of the Filipino nation rebuilt.

• GK National Heroes Build: Painting houses, building lives
• Nation Building: Kaisa Tayo - mula KHC hanggang Baseco, bigyan man o hindi bigyan ng medalyang ginto
• Sumusulpot na parang kabuti ang mga bahay - Mga tala hinggil sa paglahok ng mga Tsinoy sa Gawad Kalinga
• Paskuhan 2005 at Baseco