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Indian NGO Educate Girls has won the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award, becoming the first Indian non-profit to receive it, for its pioneering work in bringing out-of-school girls into classrooms and addressing gender injustice in education across rural India.
Description:
- Started: 1957, by Rockefeller Brothers Fund (in memory of Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay).
- First Awarded: 1958.
- Nickname: “Asia’s Nobel Prize”.
- Presented by: Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF).
- Award: Certificate + Medallion (Magsaysay profile).
- Ceremony: Aug 31, Manila (Magsaysay’s birth anniversary).
- Purpose: Honors greatness of spirit & transformative leadership in Asia.
Categories (1958–2008):
- Government Service
- Public Service
- Community Leadership
- Journalism, Literature & Creative Communication Arts
- Peace & International Understanding
- Emergent Leadership (≤40 yrs, introduced 2001)
- Post-2009: Not category-specific, broader recognitions.
Indian Link:
- Awardees include Vinoba Bhave, Jayaprakash Narayan, Kiran Bedi, Aruna Roy, M.S. Subbulakshmi, Anshu Gupta, Bezwada Wilson etc.
- India → among top recipients.
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