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B'luru social activist among winners of Helen Keller award

Last Updated 25 November 2015, 19:35 IST

 Bengaluru-based social activist Ganesh Shivaram Hegde is among this year’s winner of the prestigious Helen Keller award for promoting employment opportunities among people with disabilities. These awards are given by the National Centre for Promotion of Employment Opportunities for Disabled People (NCPEDP).

These awards were constituted in 1999. The NCPEDP has partnered with Lemon Tree Hotels for this year’s award.

Hegde runs all livelihood programmes of the Association of People with Disability (APD), Bengaluru, for gainful employment. Hegde has been working with APD from 1992 after completing his BSc (agriculture). He did post-graduation in environmental science. The programme has seen over 1,800 persons with disability get gainful employment in gardening, horticulture, cookery, sustainable agriculture and allied fields.

The awardees include Diethono de Nakhro (Disability rights advocate from Nagaland), Nitin Goyal (Head of Asset Controlling and Projects (India), Nokia Networks and Solutions, Gurgaon) and Kanika Aggarwal (Training Executive, v-shesh Learning Services Pvt Ltd, Maharashtra). All of them belong to the community of People with Disability (PwD) and emerged as role model for PwDs. Others awardees are Anita Narayan (Maharashtra) and Aparna Dass (America India Foundation Trust, Gurgaon). Among  companies, NGOs and institutions, the awardees are AMBA (Karnataka), ANZ (Bengaluru hub, Karnataka), Sounds of Silence Foundation (Maharashtra) and  State Bank of India, (Maharashtra).

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(Published 25 November 2015, 19:35 IST)

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