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Ramon Magsaysay award
July 28 , 2017
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Gethsie Shanmugam is chosen for Ramon Magsaysay Awards, which is regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize.
Five other recipients, including Philippine theatre group is receiving the award for this year.
Ms. Gethsie Shanmugam is a teacher and psychological counsellor for Sri Lanka’s Tamil community in conflict zones. Ms.Gethsie Shanmugam counseled war widows, orphans and children traumatised by three decades of brutal civil war in Sri Lanka .
Other winners
| S.No | Name of honorees (age) | Country | Purpose |
| 1 | Gethsie Shanmugam (82) | Srilanka | Counselled war widows and orphans to overcome their nightmares |
| 2 | Yoshiaki Ishizawa (79) | Japan | Devoted 50 years of his life to help preserve Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple |
| 3 | Tony Tay (70) | Singapore | Leads the cooking of 6,000 meals a day for the destitute (elderly, migrant workers and low-income families) |
| 4 | Abdon Nababan (53) | Indonesia | Effort to return state-controlled forest land to indigenous communities |
| 5 | Lilia de Lima (76) | Philippines | Opening of hundreds of job-generating export processing zones across the country as head of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority |
| 6 | Philippine Educational Theatre Association | Philippines | Artistic platform for protest when dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law |
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