US EditionIndian Non-Profit Working for Girls’ Education Among Winners of Magsaysay Award for 2025
Educate Girls has empowered over 2 million girls in rural India with a 90% retention rate, transforming communities through education and social change since 2007.
- The 67th Ramon Magsaysay Awards ceremony will be held on November 7, 2025, in Manila, where three recipients will be honored, including an Indian nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing education for girls.
- In 2007, Safeena Husain established an Indian non-profit organization dedicated to combating female illiteracy in the remote rural areas of Rajasthan.
- Educate Girls has supported over two million girls from more than 30,000 villages, involving more than 55,000 volunteers and launched the Pragati open-schooling program for young women.
- Safeena Husain called the award a 'historic moment,' highlighting the global spotlight it places on India’s community-driven movement for girls’ education.
- The award emphasizes the critical need to support girls’ education to drive social and economic transformation, while honoring leaders dedicated to making a meaningful and lasting impact throughout Asia.
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Indian non-profit working for girls’ education among winners of Magsaysay Award for 2025
The 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Awardees will each receive a medallion bearing the likeness of President Ramon Magsaysay, a certificate inscribed with their citation, and a cash prize, the statement said.
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Educate Girls Scripts History, Becomes First Indian NGO to Win Ramon Magsaysay Award
Indian NGO 'Educate Girls' Wins Ramon Magsaysay Award in Historic FirstIn a landmark moment for social change in India, the non-profit organization Educate Girls has been awarded the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award, widely regarded as Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. This marks the first time an Indian NGO has received the prestigious honor, which recognizes the organization's transformative success in bringing millions of out-of-school girls in…
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