DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Indian instructor and activist identified for creating lots of of studying facilities and portray instructional murals throughout the partitions of slums received the $1 million International Instructor Prize on Thursday.
Rouble Nagi accepted the award on the World Governments Summit in Dubai within the United Arab Emirates, an annual occasion that attracts leaders from throughout the globe.
Her Rouble Nagi Artwork Basis has established greater than 800 studying facilities throughout India. They goal to have youngsters who by no means attended faculty start to have structured studying. In addition they train youngsters already at school. Nagi additionally paints murals that train literacy, science, math and historical past, amongst different matters.
Accepting the award, Rouble mentioned the prize was an honor for herself and for India. She mentioned she started 24 years in the past with 30 youngsters in a single small workshop, and now reached over one million youngsters.
“I believe each step has simply motivated me, impressed me to take each little one in India to high school,” Rouble mentioned. “You already know once I was a toddler it was my dream to see each little one at college and as you develop up fulfilling that for as many as we are able to attain, I believe it’s a really humbling expertise.”
The prize is awarded by the Varkey Basis, whose founder, Sunny Varkey, established the for-profit GEMS Training firm that runs dozens of faculties in Egypt, Qatar and the UAE.
“Rouble Nagi represents the perfect of what educating could be – braveness, creativity, compassion, and an unwavering perception in each little one’s potential,” Varkey mentioned in a press release posted to the International Instructor Prize web site. “By bringing schooling to probably the most marginalized communities, she has not solely modified particular person lives, however strengthened households and communities.”
Nagi plans to make use of the $1 million to construct an institute that gives free vocational coaching.
Stefania Giannini, UNESCO Assistant Director-Basic for Training, mentioned Nagi’s prize “reminds us of a easy fact: lecturers matter.”
In feedback carried on the prize web site, Giannini mentioned UNESCO was “honoured to hitch the International Instructor Prize in celebrating lecturers such as you, who, by persistence, willpower, and perception in each learner, assist youngsters into faculty — an act that may change the course of a life.”
Nagi is the tenth instructor to win the award, which the inspiration started handing out in 2015.
Previous winners of the International Instructor Prize have included a Kenyan instructor from a distant village who gave away most of his earnings to the poor, a Palestinian major faculty instructor who teaches her college students about non-violence and a Canadian educator who taught a distant Arctic village of Inuit college students. Final 12 months’s winner was Saudi educator Mansour al-Mansour, who was identified for his work with the poor within the kingdom.
GEMS Training, or International Training Administration Methods, is likely one of the world’s largest personal faculty operators and is believed to be price billions. Its success has adopted that of Dubai, the place solely personal colleges provide courses for the youngsters of the foreigners who energy its economic system.
