Eugenio Lemos  (Photo from the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation) MANILA, Philippines — One of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award recipients, Eugenio Lemos, endured years of extreme hunger in the mountains as a child, having fled the conflict areas of Timor-Leste during the civil war and Indonesian invasion in the mid-1970s. To survive, his family was forced to scrounge for food in the forest, but his father and youngest sister starved to death. After emerging from hiding, his brother couldn't adapt to the diet that was available and also died.

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