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MANILA: GK has this slogan: Building communities to end poverty. In only 5 words, Gawad Kalinga has discovered the secret, the practical formula for eliminating poverty. UP with GK! Down with poverty! No poor left behind. Note that what GK is trying to do is: Not ending extreme poverty, as the World Bank would like us to do. World Bank, why do you want to leave millions of the poor behind? Not reducing poverty, as the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organization, or FAO, desires, and as our very own National Economic & Development Authority, or NEDA, would have it. That is, towards a decline in the number of poor. FAO and NEDA, why not reduce poverty to zero? Can we really end poverty? Now, finally, I have the Bill Gates I had wanted all along, saying "We can end poverty by 2030" (Julie Bort, 21 January 2016, Business Insider, businessinsider.com ). That's 14 years from now. By that time, I will be 91 years old, near the end of

MANILA: We must wage the War on Poverty for the sake of the poor farmers, and not simply increase the yields in their rice farms. We need ideas as fresh as the morning dew. The poor are more. Especially the farmers. The President can take care of 3.7 million drug addicts, the number according to him (24 October 2016, huffingtonpost.com ), while the rest of us have to take care of 30 million in the farms, the number according to the New Agriculturist (April 2012, new-ag.info ). The number should be more now, like 37 million farm poor. Or 10 times more than the drug addicts. We should pay 10 times more attention to farmers than drug addicts! The poor are more, farmers and families in villages. For the War on Poverty, our slogan should be: No more poor! Given that, we in Danggay Foundation say, "Let us learn from those who know better, who have more experience, and who have more science in them." I myself have made much of the master mind and modern &