Educate Girls Wins Ramon Magsaysay Award 2025.

In 2025, The Foundation to Educate Girls Globally (Educate Girls) is the first Indian organisation to be awarded the coveted Ramon Magsaysay Award. The award reflects its efforts to break difficult cultural stereotypes and educate girls, giving young women skills and confidence to rise above illiteracy. The other winners this year are Shaahina Ali of the Maldives and Flaviano Antonio L. Villanueva of the Philippines.

About the Award

• The Ramon Magsaysay Award is considered to be the Nobel Prize of Asia and was established in 1957.
• It recognizes and awards individuals and organisations whose leadership and service to the people are outstanding.
• The winners are declared on August 31, the birth date of the ex-Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay, and a ceremony is organized every November in Manila.

Why Educate Girls Was Honoured.

The interest of Educate Girls is a reminder of how education can break social barriers. Thousands of girls have been empowered by the organisation through:

• Life skills and literacy.
• Opening opportunities in the society.
• Breaking traditions of not educating females.

The success increases the worldwide interest in gender equality and education as drivers of social change.

Ramon Magsaysay's Legacy

Ramon Magsaysay who became the 7th President of the Philippines was an honest, upright and people-oriented leader. An ex-guerrilla commander during World War II, he emerged as a national icon in spite of his humble origins. This award was established in his memory in 1957 after his untimely death.

Indian Winners in the Past

Among the Indian laureates, there are Arvind Kejriwal (politics), Ravish Kumar (journalism), Bezwada Wilson (activism), and Sonam Wangchuk (environmental innovation), and this is a representative sample across social change.