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Tamil wins Global Award

An 82-year-old Tamil teacher who counsels war widows and orphans, Gethsie Shanmugam, is one among the six winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards.

Gethsie Shanmugam
Gethsie Shanmugam Source: Sunday Times

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By Kulasegaram Sanchayan

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Ms. Shanmugam and the other five recipients were named on Thursday and the awards will presented on August 31 in Manila.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation said Ms. Shanmugam, a teacher and psychological counselor, won for braving bombings and threats of arrests in conflict zones to counsel war widows, orphans and children traumatized by three decades of war in Sri Lanka.

Ramon Magsaysay Awards, which is regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize, was named after the Philippine President who died in a 1957 plane crash.