Overview

• The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation named Educate Girls a 2025 awardee alongside Shaahina Ali of the Maldives and Flaviano Antonio L. Villanueva of the Philippines.
• Presentation of the 67th awards is scheduled for November 7 at Manila’s Metropolitan Theatre, with each honoree receiving a medallion, certificate, and cash prize.
• Founded in 2007 by Safeena Husain in Rajasthan, the organisation mobilises local volunteers through Team Balika and partners with government to shift norms and keep girls in school.
• RMAF and the organisation report reach across more than 30,000 villages involving over two million girls with retention above 90 percent, supported by a 2015 Development Impact Bond that tied funding to results.
• Beyond school enrollment, the Pragati open-schooling programme for women aged 15–29 has grown from an initial 300 learners to more than 31,500, as Husain calls the recognition a milestone for India’s people-powered movement.