| Bharat Vatwani, Sonam Wangchuk to get 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award | | | Agencies
NEW DELHI: Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk will be honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay Award this year.
Recognising their efforts, the foundation said that Bharat is being awarded for his work for the mentally-afflicted people in India. "He is being recognized for his tremendous courage and healing compassion in embracing India’s mentally-afflicted destitute, and his steadfast and magnanimous dedication to the work of restoring and affirming the human dignity of even the most ostracized in ourmidst," the foundation said.
Sonam Wangchuk, the man on whom Aamir Khan's character in the movie 3 Idiots was based, has also been recognised for his community-driven reform of learning systems. "He is being recognized for his uniquely systematic, collaborative and community-driven reform of learning systems in remote northern India, thus improving the life opportunities of Ladakhi youth, and his constructive engagement of all sectors in local society to harness science and culture creatively for economic progress, thus setting an example for minority peoples in the world," the foundation said. |
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