Educate Girls Wins 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award

On 31st August 2025, the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation announced that the Indian non-profit Foundation to Educate Girls Globally, widely known as Educate Girls, has been named one of the recipients of the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious honour.

Educate Girls is the first Indian organisation to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award, which is often regarded as Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
The non-profit, founded in 2007 by Safeena Husain in Rajasthan, focuses on mobilising communities and leveraging government resources to improve girls’ education in rural and educationally disadvantaged regions of India.
The Foundation’s model works by identifying the most underserved communities, enrolling out-of-school girls into classrooms, and ensuring they remain in school until they achieve the credentials needed for higher education and employment.
The Ramon Magsaysay Foundation cited Educate Girls’ grassroots, community-led approach as a model of sustainable social change, combining government partnership, volunteer mobilization, and household-level interventions.