The 1960 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service

RESPONSE of Sir Henry Holland
Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Ceremonies
31 August 1960 Manila, Philippines

It is quite unnecessary for me to tell you how extremely delighted and surprised I was when I heard that the award had been given to my son and to me.

Things are very different from what they were, and now I can look forward to my son being able with this magnificent gift to carry on the work which began some 60 years ago. It is delightful to know that, when our surgical team goes each year to our hospital at Shikarpur, it will ease our difficulty as regards the purchase of equipment from America for the ophthalmic side of our work, which has entailed the treatment and cure of over 200,000 poor villagers in Pakistan.

Naturally, I should like to thank the Board of Trustees and the Rockefeller Brothers for the very generous grant towards our work, which upholds the aims and ideals of the late President Magsaysay, who himself always had at heart the welfare of the ordinary rural villager.

The credit for the work is not ours, but belongs to our Saviour and Great Physician, Jesus Christ, in whose Name we work, and whose ambassadors we are.