The Ramon Magsaysay Awardees 2025

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The 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Awardees are:
 
FOUNDATION TO EDUCATE GIRLS GLOBALLY, from India. Widely known as “Educate Girls,” the
organization is being recognized for “its commitment to addressing cultural stereotyping through the
education of girls and young women, liberating them from the bondage of illiteracy and infusing them
with skills, courage, and agency to achieve their full human potential.”
 
SHAAHINA ALI, from the Maldives. She is being recognized for “her unwavering commitment to
protecting the marine ecosystem of the Maldives with passion, vision, and inclusivity, ensuring that her
work will be carried on by another generation of Maldivians in search of effective local solutions to global
problems.”
 
FLAVIANO ANTONIO L. VILLANUEVA, from the Philippines. He is being recognized for “his lifelong
mission to uphold the dignity of the poor and the oppressed, daily proving with unwavering faith that by
serving the least of their brethren, all are restored.”
 
First given in 1958, the Ramon Magsaysay Award celebrates the greatness of spirit embodied by the late
Philippine President, Ramon Magsaysay. Each year, it honors women, men, and organizations across Asia
whose selfless service has uplifted lives, strengthened communities, and advanced dignity and justice.
 

In over six decades, the Award has been bestowed on 353 outstanding individuals and organizations whose selfless service has offered their societies, Asia, and the world successful solutions to some of the most intractable problems of human development.

The Ramon Magsaysay Awardees, annually selected by the RMAF board of trustees, are presented with a certificate and a medallion with an embossed image of Ramon Magsaysay facing right in profile.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award was conceived to honor greatness of spirit shown in service to the peoples of Asia—regardless of race, gender, or religion.

From 1958 to 2008, the Award was given in six categories annually:

  • Government Service, to recognize outstanding service in the public interest in any branch of government, including the executive, judicial, legislative, or military;
  • Public Service, to recognize outstanding service for the public good by a private citizen;
  • Community Leadership, to recognize leadership of a community toward helping the disadvantaged have fuller opportunities and a better life;
  • Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts, to recognize effective writing, publishing, or photography or the use of radio, television, cinema, or the performing arts as a power for the public good;
  • Peace and International Understanding, to recognize contributions to the advancement of friendship, tolerance, peace, and solidarity as the foundations for sustainable development within and across countries; and
  • Emergent Leadership, to recognize an individual, forty years of age or younger, for outstanding work on issues of social change in his or her community, but whose leadership may not yet be broadly recognized outside of this community.

The category of Emergent Leadership was inaugurated in 2000 and is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation.

Starting in 2009, the Ramon Magsaysay Award is no longer being given in fixed Award categories, except for Emergent Leadership.

The new recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Award are announced annually on August 31st, the birth anniversary of the esteemed seventh Philippine President whose ideals inspired the Award’s creation in 1957. The Ramon Magsaysay Award medallion and certificate are presented in a formal ceremony in Manila, Philippines, every November of the same year.

 

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