Korvi Rakshand, the founder of JAAGO Foundation, has been named one of the winners of the 2023 Ramon Magsaysay Award.
The visionary founder of JAAGO Foundation and Volunteer for Bangladesh, has been honoured with the prestigious 2023 Ramon Magsaysay Award in the Emergent Leadership category.
Notable recipients of this award include Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Mother Teresa, Dalai Lama, and Satyajit Ray, among others.
Often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Asia", the award recognises exceptional contributions in various fields, from public service to social innovation.
Korvi Rakshand has been honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his unwavering dedication to education and social change.
This year, four individuals across different categories were nominated for the awards.
JAAGO Foundation
JAAGO Foundation (JAAGO means 'wake-up' in Bangladeshi) was established in April, 2007, and is the brainchild of Korvi Rakshand. The organisation started its journey in a rented room in the Rayer Bazar slums of Dhaka, furnished with nothing but a carpet, a whiteboard and a marker. In the beginning, they had only seventeen students. The Foundation aims to address problems of access to quality education for underprivileged children.
From such small beginnings, it has grown into one of the largest, most dynamic non-profit organisations in its field in Bangladesh. With education as its core program, it provides free-of-cost, government-recognized, English-language primary and secondary education to 30,000 students.
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