2008年マグサイサイ賞(2)
受賞理由
"for his dedicated efforts in Thailand to provide inexpensive, practical, and comfortable artificial limbs to even the poorest amputees."
受賞者
Therdchai Jivacate
タイ
同年の他の受賞業績
- "for its successful adaptation of microfinance to the Philippines, providing self-sustaining and comprehensive financial services for half a million poor women and their families."
- "for enhancing the capacity of the Madia Gonds to adapt positively in today's India, through healing and teaching and other compassionate interventions."
- "for his principled career as a publisher, placing discrimination, human rights, and other difficult subjects squarely in Japan’s public discourse."
- "for guiding Muslims to embrace tolerance and pluralism as the basis for justice and harmony in Indonesia and in the world at large."
- "for his spirited personal commitment to bring appropriate and effective psychosocial services to survivors of war and natural disasters in Sri Lanka."