Thursday, December 26, 2019

Rotary awards Raghuvanshi for work among youth




Varanasi, December 26, 2019: Lenin Raghuvanshi, a rewound social worker from Varanasi, received from Rotary International’s Vocational Excellence Award in recognition of his extraordinary to life skills of youth and children.
He received the award on December 21 during the 36th District #Rotary Conference in Varanasi along with famous film director Raj Kumar Santoshi.
Raghuvanshi is the CEO of Jan Mitra Nyas (People friendly trust) that engages in health, nutrition and educational issues in northern India.
“It is a great honor for us because of our continuous work has been for life skill of youth and children at schools, colleges, madarasa and communities,” Raghuvanshi told Matters India.
He also shared how his trust impacts people’s lives.
One such example is Jyoti Kumari from #Baghawanala slum of Varanasi.
She joined Jan Mitra Nyas’ non-formal school at Baghawanala when she was six.
Jyoti was the first learner in her families and she studied in non-formal school up to grade five and then completed her post-graduation in sociology.
Now she is staff of Jan Mitra Nyas project of maternal and neonatal health at slum Bazardiha.
The 28-yar-old Jyoti was also selected for Norway-based Fontes Foundation’s Fellowship under the South Youth Exchange program of Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (#NOREC).
NOREC is a Norwegian governmental body financing two-way mutual personnel exchange between companies and organizations in Norway and similar companies and organizations in the global South – that is countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Since 1996, Jan Mitra Nyas’ has educated and empowered 7,000 like Jyoti.
“Life skill is important to change knowledge, attitude and practices for a better world and more dignified life,” Raghuvanshi said.
But normal life skills in education, Information Technology and health and child protection, Jan Mitra Nyas has reached out over 3 million from #Varanasi, #Sonbhadra, #Badaun and #Ambedkarnagar districts of Uttar Pradesh and Koderama of Jharkhand.
The 49-year-old Raghuvanshi is one of the country’s most prominent Neo-Dalit Rights Activist and Human Rights Advocate.
He has made innumerable contributions to the advancement of the downtrodden, especially co-founding the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights.
#PVCHR creates awareness for preventive measures through breaking the culture of silence and secondly provides direct support through multi-layers and multidimensional support.

Tuesday, December 03, 2019

PVCHR appoints Parul Sharma as Regional Executive Director, Climate Justice in South Asia.





                                     

PRESS RELEASE


December 2019
New Delhi, India
Stockholm, Sweden.

PVCHR appoints Parul Sharma as Regional Executive Director, Climate Justice in South Asia.

It is with great pleasure PVCHR and Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi can confirm the appointment of Ms. Parul Sharma as the organization’s Regional Executive Director with focus on Climate Justice in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. Ms. Sharma’s task will be to develop the Bali Principles of Climate Justice through networks and partnership with focus on grassroots movements in the region. It is rather clear that those who have contributed most to the problems have the greatest responsibility to help resolve them and South Asia is already severely affected by climate change. Parul Sharma will partly have her base in Stockholm, Sweden.

“With Ms. Sharma’s extensive knowledge of sustainable development within civil society groups, corporate world and governmental experience she becomes the perfect combination to be both a trustworthy spokesperson and a strong strategist. Moreover, with her background in the South Asian region we see no other person who could strengthen PVCHR’s climate justice work the way Parul Sharma can,” says Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi the founder and Executive President of PVCHR.

“This is the time to act for climate justice and with my devotion for the region and the will and wish to speed up the justice part of things, it was very hard for me to say nothing else but yes to this opportunity. I have worked and known PVCHR since many years now, and it is a genuine people’s movement with ears towards the grassroots, which is important for findingsolutions”, says Parul Sharma.

Ms. Parul Sharma will join on the 1st of February 2020.

Signed with great pleasure,

Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi.
Founder and Executive President of PVCHR


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