Topic > Antonio P. Meloto Jr Community Leadership Award

Bayanihan“Passion driven by love is more powerful than passion driven by anger.” In 1957, we had lost our beloved President Ramon Magsaysay in a plane crash and it was a difficult time is the time of the Filipinos. It's already 2014 and everyone still remembers it. Every year in history class, I sat on my desk while my teacher discussed him in awe. I never realized that, unlike others, I wouldn't get to see him walking the streets of Manila wearing a simple t-shirt and sandals helping a random child or watch him give yet another scholarship to a blessed student. But even if I could never see the late President Ramon Magsaysay, I could see his influence on others, how they, like him, made a difference in their own ways: the winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Award. the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award is given in Asia to an individual who embodies the character of the late president in certain fields of endeavor: government service; public service; community leadership; journalism, literature and creative communication arts; peace ...