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Howard Dee directs the Ramon Magsaysay Awards of 2018
MANILA, Philippines – The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation announced yesterday its six recipients who have made significant contributions to their communities and helped to change the lives of the less fortunate.
Senen Bacani, president of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, said that this year's winners have been chosen for their inspiring vision, creativity and leadership in addressing issues in their own societies.
"They are the heroes of the hope of Asia," Bacani said.
One of the 2018 Ramon Magsaysay laureates is the former Philippine Ambassador to the Holy See and Malta Howard Dee, who has been recognized for his heroic service to the Filipino people.
Dee served as secretary-counselor on indigenous peoples affairs during the administration of the former president and now President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
He also served as chairman of the government peace panel negotiations with Communist rebels and was a member of the Social Reform Council during the time of former President Fidel Ramos.
Dee also joined the government peace panel for the Bangsamoro Basic Law in 2015.
He will receive the award on August 31 at the Philippine Cultural Center in Manila with other winners, including the Cambodian Youk Chhang who has been known to have preserved documents of genocide in Cambodia "to serve the purpose of judicial recovery, national reconciliation and collective healing."
Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz of East Timor was recognized for encouraging the less fortunate community of social justice and peace.
In addition, the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation recognizes the Vietnamese Vo Thi Hoang Yen, who contracted polio, "for his intrepid spirit and prodigious energy in rising above his condition."
Yen is the founder and director of disability research. Development in Vietnam.
Bharat Vatwani, one of the founders of Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation, is recognized for "his immense courage and compassion for embracing India's needy."
Vatwani began to care for people with disabilities in India when he and his wife first saved a man from the drinking water of a street canal.
Also from India, Sonam Wangchuk was named Ramon Magsaysay Awarded in 2018 for "his unique, systematic, collaborative and community-based reform of learning systems in northern India.
Wangchuk founded the Ladakh Educational and Cultural Student Movement and began teaching Ladakhi students, who failed entrance exams at government-run schools.
In a Skype interview with reporters, Chhang from Cambodia and Hoang Yen from Vietnam said they were very humble and grateful for the recognition they received.
The Ramon Magsaysay Award, one of Asia's greatest honors, was established in 1957 in memory of the late Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay.
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