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Mandakini and Prakash Amte have been conferred the Ramon Magsaysay
Award for Community Leadership, for serving the medical, education and
livelihood needs of remote tribal communities in Maharashtra for over
30 years.
Prakash Amte and his wife Mandakini, both doctors, have been awarded
the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership 2008.
The Magsaysay Award, given annually by the government of the
Philippines , is considered to be the Asian Nobel.
The Amtes have been working among the Madia Gond tribals in
Bhamragarh, in Maharashtra 's Gadchiroli district, since the 1970s.
According to the award citation, they were being honoured for their
work in 'enhancing the capacity of the Madia Gonds to adapt positively
in today's India , through healing and teaching and other
compassionate interventions'.
Prakash Amte grew up in Anandvan, an ashram and rehabilitation centre
for people with leprosy started by his father, the late Baba Amte. In
1974, when Baba Amte wanted to start a new project for the Gonds,
Prakash and Mandakini gave up their urban medical practice and moved
to the remote tribal area with him.
Sent by Hameed Majal.....
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