Jonathan Jesus Navea

Who is Jonathan Jesus Navea?

Jonathan Jesus N. Navea, also known as Jake Navea is a Filipino civic leader and consumers welfare advocate who initiated Mother's Day and Father's Day in the Philippines in 1980 thru the Annual Huwarang Ina at Ama Awards, formerly Gintong Ina at Ama Awards. Navea lobbied for their official national proclamation eventually issued by the late Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino who issued Proclamation No. 266 declaring Mother's Day every second Sunday of May and Father's Day every third Sunday of June as national events for more than three decades, superseding the previous proclamation issued by the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos.

One of the prominent past Gintong Ina awardees was retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Consuelo Ynares Santiago. Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto G. Romulo is one of the respected awardees of the Gintong Ama for Public Service.