By Tracker, http://tracker.org.au/2013/02/helping-the-poorest-of-the-poor/
A small contingent from the NSW Aboriginal Land Council is travelling through the Philippines this month on a 14-day study tour of one that nation’s most respected Non-Government Organisations (NGO).
Gawad Kalinga (GK) – literally to “give care” – is an aid organisation famous for lifting more than 2,000 Philippine communities out of poverty.
NSWALC is investigating whether the GK model can be transplanted to Aboriginal communities in Australia.
Councillor Anne Dennis and CEO Geoff Scott are travelling to sites across the Philippines with a group of 15 from Australia and France, including the head of GK Australia, Andrew Chalk.
The aim of the trip called an “Under the Bonnet tour”, is to find the secrets to Gawad Kalinga’s extraordinary success.