Founder and leader of India's National Slum Dwellers Federation whose lifelong endeavor is to change the situation of millions of poor people in city slums for the better

The Filipino founder of Gawad Kalinga, a Philippine-based poverty alleviation movement

A Philippine-based movement that aims to end poverty by first restoring the dignity of the poor

A social development organization that has evolved from being a bank which is owned and managed by landless women, into an outstanding and highly credible microfinance institution (MFI) that is presently leading the pack of microfinance institutions in the Philippines

A self-sacrificing, innovative Indian who has given up being a priest to devote himself wholly to social work that is driven by an extraordinary passion to lift people from poverty and suffering

A nonprofit organization, established by a group of six Pakistani business leaders and executives, that aims to “remove barriers of class and privilege” through affordable, quality education and “to make the citizens of Pakistan agents of positive change

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

An innovative man who left his job in a well-known firm to devote himself to the task of finding ever better, more sustainable ways of organizing the effort to help those in need

A soft-spoken Laotian whose love for silk weaving revived and developed the ancient Laotian art of silk weaving, and created livelihoods for thousands of poor, war-displaced Laotians