Winners

1st Prize Winner

"Baul Song"
    by Debashis Tarafder, India
2nd Prize Winner

"Champa Teacher"
    by Phuc Quang Ngo, Vietnam

"The teacher crippled by childhood polio teaches Koran to poor children."

3rd Prize Winner

"What News Today"
    by Budi Prakasa, Indonesia

"I found the moment when 4 children with their serious faces read the newspaper that morning. It's in Semarang Old City, Central of Java. I like the background of the concrete old wall and the tree."
4th Prize Winner

"Love for the Mother Language"
    by Sudipto Das, India

"A young graduate girl takes initiative to spread adult literacy among rural women at a remote village in West Bengal, India. Increased literacy among the adult villagers live far below poverty level helps to reduce poverty."
5th Prize Winner

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    by Ananya Rubayat, Bangladesh

"If you are a Bangladeshi, you cannot separate your identity from Bangla, our mother tongue. One of your first memories is bound to be sitting with your mother holding a pencil together, forming the first letter of the Bangla alphabet. It is pronounced as ‘awe’, nothing could be more fitting to begin a language with such awe-inspiring history."