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Indian non-profit Educate Girls has received the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award and dedicated the honour to thousands of tract coordinators, volunteers and younker mentors who person helped bring millions of girls successful the state backmost to school.
The grant was publically announced connected August 31, and the ceremonial ceremonial took spot connected Friday (November 8, 2025) astatine the Metropolitan Theatre successful the Philippines' superior city.
Founded successful 2007, Educate Girls works crossed much than 30,000 villages successful Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Bihar to interruption cycles of poorness and illiteracy.
With enactment from implicit 55,000 community-based volunteers, the non-profit has brought much than 2 cardinal girls backmost to schoolhouse and supported implicit 2.4 cardinal children done remedial learning programmes.
While accepting the award, Founder Safeena Husain said, "This grant is for our girls, who animate america with their courage, grit, and resilience. Girls who negociate household responsibilities and survey precocious into the nighttime to physique brighter futures for themselves, their families, and their country.
"Through this recognition, we honour the parents, teachers, assemblage members, and 55,000 Team Balika volunteers who basal alongside our girls each day. Their dedication shows that erstwhile communities travel unneurotic to amended girls, each miss has opportunity, choice, voice, and agency."
CEO Gayatri Nair Lobo said the honour is simply a reminder of the unthinkable powerfulness of radical coming together, agreed by 1 intent to amended girls.
"It honours our corporate efforts, innovative programs, and the government's impactful initiatives. More importantly, it fuels our ambition for the adjacent milestone: 10X10 — reaching 10 cardinal learners by 2035. Millions of girls astir the satellite are inactive waiting for their accidental to learn, and we are determined not to fto them hold immoderate longer,” she said.
While presenting the honour, the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation cited Educate Girls' "commitment to addressing taste stereotyping done the acquisition of girls and young women, liberating them from the bondage of illiteracy, and infusing them with skills, courage, and bureau to execute their afloat quality potential".
A 25-member Educate Girls team, including tract coordinators, volunteers and first-generation learners, travelled to the Philippines superior for the grant ceremony.
Considered the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Ramon Magsaysay Award recognises transformative enactment and “greatness of spirit”. Awardees are selected annually done a confidential planetary information process and rigorous evaluation.
