This year’s Magsaysay Award announced today and 2 Indians are among 6 recipients for getting prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award, 2011.
Every year the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation gives away the prize to Asian individuals and organizations for achieving excellence in their respective fields. Often it considered as Asia’s Nobel Prize. The award is named after famous Philippine president who died in a plane crash in 1957.
This year’s awardees are:
Harish Hande – For his revolutionize work by bringing solar lights to over 120,000 households in India.
Nileema Mishra – For working tirelessly with the poor for their development in Maharashtra
Filipino charity group – Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation
Hasanain Juaini – For set up an Islamic school for girls in Indonesia,
Tri Mumpuni – For promoted micro hydro power technology in Indonesia
Koul Panah – working to restore democracy in Cambodia
The winners will receive a certificate, a medallion and a cash prize in Manila on August 31, 2011.
Harish Hande was recognized for “his passionate and pragmatic efforts to putsolar power technology in the hands of the poor, through a social enterprise that brings customized, affordable, and sustainable electricity to India’s vast rural populace, encouraging the poor to become asset creators”.
Nileema Mishra was recognized for “her purpose-driven zeal to work tirelessly with villagers in Maharashtra, organizing them to successfully address both their aspirations and their adversities through collective action and heightened confidence in their potential to improve their own lives”.
Previously Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Jayaprakash Narayan, Mother Teresa, Arun Shourie, T N Seshan and Kiran Bedi was honoured with this prestigious award.
