Two Indian recipients of the 2016 Ramon Magsaysay Awards on Monday narrated their tales of how they overran obstacles and eventually attained victories in pushing their advocacies. Indian scavengers extract human feces and urine from dry latrines with their bare hands and carry the buckets filled with excrement to depository areas. Aside from manual scavenging, SKA promotes gender equality, denouncing all forms of exploitation of women and children. Interestingly, the other Indian recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Thodur Madabusi Krishna, was born to a family of aristocrats. His exemplary mission to unite people from different walks of life and reinvent Indian society earned praise from the Ramon Magsaysay Center.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 29, 2016 11:26 UTC