The Ramon Magsaysay Award

Pakistani development worker wins Asia’s ‘Nobel Prize’ for helping millions

Muhammad Amjad Saqib, 64, has distributed the equivalent of $900 million with an almost 100 percent loan repayment rate
He won Ramon Magsaysay Award for ‘inspiring belief that human goodness and solidarity will find ways to eradicate poverty’

By AFP · 01 September 2021