Last night, CNN IBN (a national television channel) hosted its second annual Real Heroes Awards. The event celebrated “ordinary people with extraordinary achievements” across India.
The twenty-four awards given recognized people working for women’s rights, education, the environment, health care, and youth empowerment. Out of those twenty-four heroes, four of them were from the Ashoka family:
• Ela Bhatt is a Senior Ashoka Fellow. She won the Real Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1972, she founded the Self-Employed Women’s Association, or SEWA, as an institution for poor working women to become self-reliant. Ela pioneered micro-financial programs through SEWA, which today has over one million members.
• Anshu Gupta founded Goonj to supply impoverished rural communities with the resources they desperately need. By recycling the materials considered to be waste in urban areas, Goonj provides rural women with sanitary napkins, rural schools with books and supplies, and rural families with clothes to survive the bitter winters.
• Rangaswamy Elango is working on Rural Development by reforming the Panchayati Raj System in Tamil Nadu. She won the award in the category of Rural Development.
• Ashok Rathod is a Youth Venturer who uses football to engage and empower the young people living in his slum. He has used football to wean them away from drugs and abuse, and help them learn the skills for life ahead.
Watch his video at: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/this-real-hero-teaches-football-with-a-rider/86583-3.html
Watch the MAIN EVENT VIDEO at: http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/86988/cnnibn-awards-the-real-unsung-heroes-of-india.html
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