A research and education center established to reduce poverty and hunger, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers.

Known as the "Father of Barangay High Schools" who made high school education accessible for Filipinos through his efforts in building public high schools in every barangay in the Philippines

A renowned Filipino violinist devoted to bringing fine music to ordinary people

A Filipina theater artist who devised a practical program for a national theatre and founded the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) in 1967

A Catholic bishop and social activist who lived in Bacolod in Negros Occidental in the Philippines

A Negrense whose socio-economic initiatives in behalf of the settler farmers were capped in August 1969 with the inauguration of the Daconcogon Sugar and Rice Milling Company

A pioneer in multinational education and an inspiration to rural leaders prompting their return to and love of the land in the Philippines

One of very few practitioners of the profession of competent agriculture reporting in developing Asia, where agriculture has been the principal livelihood and holds promise of being an increasingly lucrative mainstay

A committed humanitarian, pediatrician, administrator, educator, researcher, author, public health advocate, whose pioneering spirit in fostering health and preventing sickness particularly among children helped not only in reducing infant morbidity and mortality in the country but also in establishing health, research, and educational institutions