A devout Buddhist and market vendor who works seventeen hours a day to change the world through seemingly ordinary acts of empathy and magnanimity

A Taiwanese Buddhist nun (bhikkhuni), teacher, and philanthropist often called the "Mother Teresa of Asia"

One of the 11 degree-granting units of the University of the Philippines Los Baños in Laguna, Philippines

A committed humanitarian, pediatrician, administrator, educator, researcher, author, public health advocate, whose pioneering spirit in fostering health and preventing sickness particularly among children helped not only in reducing infant morbidity and mortality in the country but also in establishing health, research, and educational institutions

A respected Indian social activist, associate of Mahatma Gandhi, and a pioneer of rural development who devoted his life to uplifting the rural poor of Uruli thru his nature cure Ashram which continues to this day and is well known throughout India

India's much respected civil servant who introduced basic reforms and developed the financial institutions he headed during the country?s critical period of expansion

An educator who trained more than 7,000 literacy teachers in educating people from India and other Asian countries

A Filipino teacher serving the indigenous Matigsalug tribe living in one of the remotest villages in the mountainous hinterland of Davao City

A cleric, teacher, community worker, and social entrepreneur who has introduced modernizing innovations in education, environmental preservation, and civic engagement