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Educate Girls NGO wins Ramon Magsaysay Award 2025, becomes first Indian organisation to get the honour
- An Indian non-profit organisation, ‘Foundation to Educate Girls Globally’, dedicated to mobilise community and government resources for girls’ education in rural and educationally disadvantaged areas of India, has been named a 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee.
- The Foundation, widely known as Educate Girls, is the first Indian organisation to receive the prestigious award, which is considered Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
- The Foundation, started in Rajasthan, was founded in 2007 by Safeena Husain.
- Other 2025 winners include Shaahina Ali from the Maldives for her environmental work and Flaviano Antonio L. Villanueva from the Philippines.
Category: Awards