Mr. #GirijaSatish Honoured with #AsiaPhilanthropicLifeAchievement Award @apawards

24 April 2019, Seoul (South Korea):  Mr. Girija Satish, founder member & president of Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra (NBJK) and national president of Gandhian organization Lok Samiti, was conferred Asia Philanthropic Lifetime Achievement Award at Seoul in South Korea. The award ceremony was attended by about 100 citizens including Mr. Kim Sung-soo (Chairman, APA Committee), Mr. Lee Jong-su, Prof. Kim Young-cheol. APA Committee is like a citizens’ body in South Korea and it has been honouring people for their outstanding philanthropic works in Asia since last 5 years.

For the year 2019, APA Awards were decleared for 5 categorirs 1. Life Time Achievement 2. Philanthropist of the year 3. Fund-raiser of the year, 4. Youth Phiolanthropist of the year and 5. NPO of the Year. Among 5 seleccted awardees, 2 from S. Korea, 2 from Vietnam and 1 from India as Mr. Girija Satish, who was honoured with APA Lifetime Achievement Award during an impressive ceremony and made India proud.

On this occasion, Mr. Girija Satish has expressed sincere gratitude towards APA committee which recognized the works by NBJK at Asia level. He appreciated the event for people to people dialogue among nations of the continent and to know about each others problems, way outs and efforts to address the issues. Such program is helpful to build good relation with nearby nations, he said.

Its significant that APA Lifetime Achievement Award was offered to Mr. Girija Satish as he stood upon the criteria of contributionability, innovation, reliability and sustainability of his philanthropic works through NBJK & Lok Samiti. Thorough the programs on education, health, livelihood, support to small VOs and advocacy-networking-governance at NBJK, he contributed to better lives among more than a million people of jharkhand-Bihar directly or indirectly.

There are more than 66 thousand children associated with NBJK run schools, remedial coaching centers, programs of school sponsorship, child reporter, orphanage, NFE centers and more than 17 thousand women with SHGs, skill dev. training for 30 thousand plus youths (70% placement), creation of more than 2000 water bodies, income inancement for 2500 tribal families with farm based & allied activities, sewing machines & training for 550 village women for self-reliance, more than 5 lakhs OPD & 1 lakh cataract surgeries by LNJP eye hospital, identification of 44 thousand PwDs, disab certificates for 11 thousand plus PwDs, pension/other entitlement for 7000, livelihood support to 1600 such people and ADL/physiotherapy to 1044 children with disabilities, formation & capacity building of 85 carers groups, solid waste management for 50 thousand HHs, sanitation for 5000 slum dwellers are like feathers in his cap. Also Mr. Girija Satish has promoted more than 300 VOs and under his able leadership Lok Samiti fights against social evils like gender discrimination, dowry, communalism-casteism, liquor and works towards empowering PRIs and landless people.

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