Magsaysay for Amte couple serving tribal people A doctor-couple from India who built a hospital and a school for a remote tribe, and a woman Philippine provincial Governor who dislodged a local political clan, are among the winners of the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awards, the organisers announced on Thursday. The award, named for a popular Philippine President who died in a plane crash in 1957, is considered the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize.......
Welfare over wages Anubhav, a New Delhi-based non-profit working with children living along railway tracks, was one of our first contacts. I remember taking a volunteer to the site on my scooter. She was very enthusiastic, very committed. But as we neared the slums and she realized she would need to come there regularly to teach the kids, her zeal fizzled out. There are many cases like this, though far less now than before.......
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