Educate Girls Wins Ramon Magsaysay Award 2025

The Asian non-profit group Educate Girls, which aims to educate poor and disadvantaged girls in India, will be mentioned among the three winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2025. Other winners: Shaahina Ali (Maldives) and Flaviano Antonio L. Villanueva (Philippines). The award is awarded on the basis of greatness of spirit and transformative leadership in Asia, and was founded in 1958.

About Educate Girls

• Also referred to as Foundation to Educate Girls Globally.

• Concentrates on combating gender injustice in education especially in rural and remote regions of India.

Core Work:

• Determines the most needy communities regarding education of girls.

• Brings out-of-school girls into classrooms.

• Make sure that they remain in school until they attain higher education qualifications and can be employed.

• Initiated in Rajasthan and extended to the whole community.

Significance of the Award

• The first Indian non-profit to be awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award.

• The article features recognition of the Indian people-led initiative to educate girls, which began with one girl in the Indian village to transform the culture and mindset.

• As the first of its kind in the history of the organization and beneficiaries, recognized by Safeena Husain, founder and Gayatri Nair Lobo, CEO.

Impact and Legacy

• Enhances gender equality in education.

• Inspires community participation and shifts cultural attitudes towards girls’ education.

• Testifies social injustices in India that the role of non-profits played.

Conclusion

Educate Girls Ramon Magsaysay Award honors the game changing effect of targeted grassroots intervention in schooling. It highlights the role of education that is gender-inclusive, community participation and social change that is sustainable in India.