I never work for or expect any award.” This was the response of Kulandei
Francis, who has been chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay Award for the year
2012, for economic empowerment of thousands of women and their families
in rural India.
Mr. Francis, Director of the Krishnagiri-based NGO
Integrated Village Development Programme (IVD), thanked his staff and
self-help members for their cooperation. “I could not have won such a
prestigious award without them,” he said.
The
Foundation said in the announcement that Mr. Kulandei Francis was being
recognised for “his visionary zeal, his profound faith in community
energies, and his sustained programmes in pursuing the holistic economic
empowerment of thousands of women and their families in rural India.”
Founded
22 years ago, the IVDP was responsible for the formation of more than
7,000 self-help groups in the three districts. So far, the value of
transactions through the SHGs was over Rs.2,500 crore and nearly Rs.250
crore lay with the accounts of the SHG members.
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