64th Ramon Magsaysay Award 2022 announced

06 Sep,22 10:53 am
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2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award: The Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation (RMAF) recently announced this year's awardees in a global announcement ceremony.

RMAF is widely regarded as the "Nobel Peace Prize of Asia,"

Key Points:

  • The foundation named four people of which three are doctors and 1 an environmentalist and a documentary filmmaker.
  • An in-person ceremony honoring the winners will be held in Manila in November.

For the year 2022, the awards went to -

  1. Sothiara Chim, Psychiatrist (Cambodia)
  2. Tadashi Hattori, Ophthalmologist (Japan)
  3. Bernadette Madrid, Pediatrician (Philippines)
  4. Gary Bencheghib, activist and filmmaker (Indonesia).

About the winners:

Sothiara Chhim:

  • He is a 54-year-old Cambodian psychiatrist.
  • He is being recognized for “his calm courage in surmounting deep trauma to become his people’s healer”.
  • He himself was also a survivor of the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge regime.
  • As a child, he was forced to work in Khmer Rouge camps for more than three years until their rule ended in 1979.
  • In the 1970s killed nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population through starvation, overwork and mass executions.
  • He, currently, is serving as the executive director of its Transcultural Psychosocial Organisation in 2002foundation.

Tadashi Hattori:

  • He is a 58-year-old Japanese ophthalmologist.
  • He was honored for providing free eye surgery in Vietnam, where such specialists and facilities are limited.
  • During a visit to Vietnam’s capital Hanoi, he discovered a severe shortage of ophthalmologists and eye specialists in the island nation.
  • This is what drove him to not only work to aid eye sufferers in the country but also to teach other local doctors to give treatment and support in Vietnam.
  • He has even developed treatment facilities and organized fund raisers while training experts and donating equipment to local hospitals as part of his efforts.

Bernadette Madrid:

  • She is a 64-year-old Philippinian Pediarician.
  • She is being recognized for “her unassuming and steadfast commitment to noble and demanding advocacy.
  • Since 1997, she has managed the country’s first child protection center at the Philippine General Hospital in Manila.
  • It has served more than 27,000 children over the last year.

Gary Bencheghib:

  • He is 27-year-old French environmental activist and filmmaker.
  • He is being recognized for Emergent Leadership for “his inspiring fight against marine plastic pollution.
  • After relocating to Bali, Indonesia, Gary has actively worked to advance the fight against plastic pollution.
  • He and his brother have built a kayak made of plastic bottles and bamboo to collect the garbage in the Citarum River, one of the world’s most polluted rivers.

About Ramon Magsaysay Award:

  • The Ramon Magsaysay Award, established in 1957, is regarded as Asia’s greatest honour and distinction.
  • It is considered as the Nobel Prize of Asia.
  • The prestigious awards are named after Ramon Magsaysay, the third president of the Philippines after his death 1957 plane crash.
  • The Award recognizes and honours individuals that have achieved distinction in their field and help others generously.
  • The prize is annually presented in a ceremonial ceremony in Manila, Philippines on August 31.
  • The Award has been given in five categories namely:
  1. Journalism,
  2. Government service,
  3. Public service,
  4. Literature and
  5. Creative communication
  • The first Ramon Magsaysay Awards ceremony was held on 31st August 1958.
  • Since 2009, the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation selects awardees for the Emergent Leadership Sector on an annual basis.
  • The awardees receive a certificate, a medallion with an embossed portrait of Ramon Magsaysay and a monetary prize.

Indians who have won Ramon Magsaysay Awards:

Vinoba Bhave was first Indian to win the Ramon Magsaysay Award is Vinoba Bhave in 1958 under the category of Community Leadership.

The other Indians include:

  • Mother Teresa in 1962, 
     
  • Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay in 1966, 
     
  • Satyajit Ray in 1967, 
     
  • Mahasweta Devi in 1997. 
     
  • Arvind Kejriwal (2006), 
     
  • Anshu Gupta of Goonj (2015), 
     
  • Human rights activist Bezwada Wilson (2016),
  • Journalist Ravish Kumar (2019) have won the award.

About Ramon Magsaysay:

  • Ramon Magsaysay became the president of Philippines in 1953.
  • The years of Magsaysay's presidency are known as the "Golden Years of the Philippines.".
  • He was well known for his generosity and agrarian reforms.


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