Her Royal Highness Ashi Kesang Wangmo Wangchuck has been presented the 2008 Mandala Award for Arts and Humanitarian 
Achievement by the Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) in New York.
According to a press release from RMA, Ashi Kesang Wangmo Wangchuck was honoured for her charitable activities in the health sector in Bhutan. The award ceremony was held on October 7.
RMA said: “In Bhutan, she has created clinics for leprosy and cancer patients and maternity and pediatric wards, and has worked on behalf of disabled children for UNICEF in Cambodia and AIDS patients in India.”
In the early eighties, Ashi Kesang Wangmo Wangchuck, 47, left the University of California to pursue fieldwork in the leprosy control programme.
Humanitarian Award
