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The #PadmaAwards2020 for social work are so so inspiring! WOW!

ALL UNSUNG HEROES! #Respect

There are those fake Magsaysay types who claim to do social work and talk so much garbage! 🙄

Am posting the #PadmaShri awardees list below and their work in brief sent by a friend.🙏
🙏Jagdishlal Ahuja -Organising langar for 500 poor patients daily for over two decades.
🙏Mohammed Sharif -Performed the last rites of over 25,000 unclaimed bodies in and around Faizabad over the past 25 yrs
🙏Javed Ahmed Tak -Improving the lives of Kashmir’s divyang children.
🙏Tulsi Gowda -Known as the encyclopedia of forests, she at the age of 72 continues to nurture plants
🙏Sathyanarayan -Promoting education in remote Arunachal
🙏Abdul Jabbar - Convener of Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan
🙏Usha Chaumar -Manual scavenger since the age of 7
🙏Harekala Hajabba-Educated poor children in Dakshin Kannada for over 20 years
🙏Arunoday Mondal-Doctor who travels 6 hrs every weekend to treat patients in remote Sundarbans
🙏Radha Mohan & Sabarmati-Started Sambhav, a resource center for farmers across India for organic farming
🙏Kushal Konwar-Guwahati veterinarian devoted his life to the conservation of Asian elephants.
🙏Trinity Saioo -school teacher and tribal farmer who led 800 women in the Jaintia Hills region to cultivate and boost the popularity of the indigenous Lakadong variety of turmeric
🙏Ravi Kannan-Oncologist from Chennai who treated over 70,000 cancer patients free in Barak valley
🙏S Ramakrishnan-Divyang social worker from TN
🙏Sundaram Verma-Rajasthan farmer who grew 50,000 trees
🙏Popatrao Pawar-Transformed a drought-prone village of Maharashtra
🙏Munna Master-Muslim Bhajan singer. Has penned bhajans in praise of Lord Krishna
🙏Yogi Aeron- Treats over 500 patients free of cost every year, suffering from burns or are mauled by animals – Patients are mostly poor, hill women from remote villages in the Himalayas
🙏Rahibai Soma Popere-Tribal farmer from Ahmednagar, honoured with title of ‘Seed Mother’ by CSIR for her inspirational work
🙏Himmata Ram- Took care of 1,000+ birds & animals by feeding them with 20 kg grains every day
🙏Moozhikkal Pankajakshi-Preserving Nokkuvidhya Pavakalli
What is amazing about this entire list is these great social workers were actually doing decades of service to the society, silently without much fuss!

New age wannabes who go and market themselves as social workers and get Magsaysay awards can learn something from them! 🙆‍♂️
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