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.🙏
🙏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.
🙏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
🙏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
🙏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
🙏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
🙏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
🙏Himmata Ram- Took care of 1,000+ birds & animals by feeding them with 20 kg grains every day
🙏Moozhikkal Pankajakshi-Preserving Nokkuvidhya Pavakalli
New age wannabes who go and market themselves as social workers and get Magsaysay awards can learn something from them! 🙆♂️