The organization is among this year’s awardees for its world-changing work in providing quality education to refugee children.
Still I Rise is among the recipients of the 18th Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice for its work providing high-quality education to refugee children across the globe. The award ceremony will be held on 18th December in Mumbai, India.
Established in 2005 by the Harmony Foundation, the award is given annually to individuals and organizations carrying out world-changing work in their field. Previous editions’ awardees include Nobel Peace Prize laureates Malala Yousafzai, the Dalai Lama, and the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières.
Amidst multiple global crises disproportionately impacting the weak, Harmony Foundation chose “Compassion beyond borders for Refugee Children” as the title for this year’s award.
Since its founding in 2018, Still I Rise has been providing free education to refugee children first in the migration hotspot of Samos island, Greece, then in Northwest Syria, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, opening schools in some of the world’s poorest and most war-torn areas.
“This is by far the most important acknowledgement we’ve ever received. Never would I have imagined that people across the globe would hear word about the work we do, let alone someone as prestigious as the Harmony Foundation. I’m so humbled and honored, on behalf of the whole of Still I Rise, to accept this most incredible award. It’s beyond our wildest dreams,” said Still I Rise’s CEO Nicolò Govoni, who will receive the award on behalf of the organization on 18th December in Mumbai.
The day before the award ceremony, on December 17th, Nicolò Govoni will speak at the Harmony International Students Conference at the University of Mumbai, sharing Still I Rise’s vision of quality education as an engine of social change.
The Harmony Foundation was founded in October 2005 by Dr. Abraham Mathai to establish social cohesion between various communities, castes and work towards the benefit of all the communities without any discrimination as to religion, caste, creed, gender or region.
