
Awards and Prizes
Ramon Magsaysay Awards for the year 2013
The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on 24 July 2013
announced the Ramon Magsaysay Awards for the year 2013 to three individuals and
two organizations for changing their societies for the better. Afghanistans
first woman governor Habiba Sarabi and a Myanmar civil society organiser Lahpai
Seng Raw, who both helped families displaced by conflict in their home nations,
are among five winners of Asias equivalent of the Nobel Prize for the year 2013.
A Brief insight into the list of the Awardees
1. Habiba Sarabi of Afghanistan honoured for helping build a functioning
local government and pushing for education and womens rights in Afghanistans
Bamyan Province despite discrimination and poverty.
2. Lahpai Seng Raw of Myanmanr honoured for helping the rehabilitate work in
damaged communities amid armed conflict.
3. Ernesto Domingo, a 76-yearold Physician honored for
dedicating his career to pushing for the poors access to Health services and for
groundbreaking and successful advocacy of neonatal Hepatitis vaccination that
has saved millions of lives in the Philippines.