Sri Lankan teacher Gethsie Shanmugam emerges winner at Ramon Magsaysay Awards 2017

CaptureGethsie Shanmugam, a Sri Lankan teacher who counseled war widows and orphans to overcome their nightmares, has emerged a winner at this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize. Eighty-two-year-old Gethsie Shanmugam, is a teacher and psychological counselor by profession. According to the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, Shanmugam won the award […]

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