ramon magsaysay award

In 2007, Safeena Husain began with 50 Rajasthan villages. Today, Educate Girls has enrolled 1.4M girls in 30,000 villages and is the first Indian NGO to win Magsaysay.

Gary Bencheghib and his organisation Sungai Watch on average clean up close to 2 tonnes of plastic waste each day from the rivers and beaches of Indonesia. He is among the four Ramon Magsaysay awardees of 2022.

With this, they join Indian stalwarts like Jayaprakash Narayan, Vinoba Bhave, Baba Amte and Verghese Kurien who also won the 'Asian version of the Nobel Peace Prize'!

Say hello to Heggodu, a tiny village in Karnataka that is making outstanding contributions in the fields of theatre, films and publishing.

Ramon Magsaysay award winner, bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi, has donated the entire award money of around Rs. 14 lakh, to AIIMS for the treatment of poor patients, especially those suffering from cancer. Kudos to this selfless officer.

Anshu Gupta and Sanjiv Chaturvedi are among the five Asians who received the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award this year for their incredible work. The award is regarded as Asia’s highest honour and is even called region's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.