Prelim - Awards
Educate Girls
- Educate Girls (Foundation to Educate Girls Globally), a Non-profit organisation (India) working to educate underprivileged girls across the country.
- Being the first Indian non-profit to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award is a historic moment for Educate Girls and for the country.
- This organisation based on Rajasthan.
- Safeena Husain, the founder of Educate Girls.
- This organisation is one of the three winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, 2025.
- Other two winners - Shaahina Ali of the Maldives and Flaviano Antonio L. Villanueva of the Philippines.
Achievements
- Educate Girls identified the neediest communities in terms of girls education.
- Brought unschooled or out-of-school girls into the classroom.
- It supported them for higher education and till the time of gainful employment.
What Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation said about this organisation?
- It was “an Indian organisation whose groundbreaking work in addressing gender injustice in education in India’s most rural and remote areas creates a ripple effect that uplifts families, communities, and entire societies”.
About the Award
- The Ramon Magsaysay Award was started in 1958 to celebrate “greatness of spirit and transformative leadership in Asia”. Since 1958, over 300 achievers and organisations from Asia have received this award.
