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PoleStar Social Impact Awards 2018

Best Social Impact Award - Education

  • Katha
  • Katha

    Katha has won the PoleStar Award for Best Social Impact organization in Education

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Started in 1988 with a magazine for children from the underserved communities, Katha's work spans the literacy to literature continuum. By seamlessly connecting grassroots work in education and urban resurgence, Katha brings children living in poverty into reading and quality education. Over the past three decades, through its many programmes, Katha continues to help over one million children help themselves out of poverty.

Best Social Impact Award - Health

  • Sankara Eye Foundation
  • Sankara Eye Foundation

    Sankara Eye Foundation has won the PoleStar Award for Best Social Impact organization in Health

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Founded in 1998 by Murali Krishnamurthy, K. Sridharan, and Sridharan's neighbor Ahmad Khushnood with the help of their first donor, HariharaMoorthy.Sankara Eye Foundation has risen to great heights from its humble beginnings. On the urging by of their uncle Mr. P. Balasubramaniam, brothers Murali and Sridharan became motivated to help Sankara Eye Hospital run by Dr.R.V. Ramani, whose mission headquarters is in Coimbatore, India.

Best Social Impact Award - Empowerment

  • SGBS Unatti Foundation
  • SGBS Unatti Foundation

    SGBS Unatti Foundation has won the PoleStar Award for Best Social Impact organization in Empowerment

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Unnati is an initiative of the Sree Guruvayurappan Bhajan Samaj Trust (SGBS). SGBS, founded in 1978, has been in the forefront in bringing best of art and cultural programs 'Utsav' to the general public in Bangalore. In the early nineties, the Trust initiated programs to reach educational benefits to the economically underprivileged sections of our society under the program 'Shiksha'.

Best Social Impact Award - Livelihoods

  • Kamalnayan Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation
  • Kamalnayan Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation

    Kamalnayan Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation has won the PoleStar Award for Best Social Impact organization in Livelihood

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Wardha is a land of prominent personalities - Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba and Jamnalalji Bajaj. Jamnalalji was a man of the people - "a fisher of men who had the knack of gathering people around him and inspiring them with his idealism." Very active during India's freedom struggle, Jamnalalji was a philanthropist who delighted in donating most of his wealth for worthy causes. From the beginning, Jamnalalji was always more involved in social and philanthropic activities rather than business. Hemade Wardha the centre for Gandhiji's economic and social development programmes. He established the Satyagraha Ashram in Wardha in 1921 and brought VinobaBhave to the Wardha Ashram to nurture it into a national institution.

Jury's Special Recognition Award

  • Centre for Action Research and Peoples Development (CARPED)
  • Centre for Action Research and Peoples Development (CARPED)

    CARPED has won the PoleStar Special Award for Best Social Impact organization in Health

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Protecting vulnerable tribal women from coerced hysterectomies (surgical removal of uterus) and tribal children from coerced appendicitis by preventing unnecessary hysterectomies among young women & appendicitis among children through awareness and advocacy.

There is a decline of around 5000 surgeries every year in Arogyasri alone and the number could be much large in private hospitals in the state, hence saving of minimum of 30,000 for family or preventing indebtedness, savings on monthly expenditure of around Rs.1000 on post hysterectomy treatment.

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PoleStar Social Impact Awards 2017

Best Social Impact Award - Education

  • Snehalaya
  • Snehalaya

    Snehalaya has won the PoleStar Award for Best Social Impact in Education

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Snehalaya is a voluntary organisation started in 1989 in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, to impart education to a handful of children of sex workers and provide palliative care for people affected by AIDS. They serve over 25,000 beneficiaries each year, run 16 key projects across education, healthcare,rehabilitation and awareness.

The organisation believes that everyone, no matter what their background or social standing, has the right to education. Through targeted programmes and campaigns, Snehalaya highlights the importance of education in healthcare, to help raise people out of poverty, to reduce levels in child trafficking and prostitution,and to help destigmatize class,disability and gender divides.

Best Social Impact Award - Empowerment

  • Sristi Foundation
  • Sristi Foundation

    Sristi Foundation has won the PoleStar Award for Best Social Impact in Empowerment.

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Sristi a voluntary organisation in Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu, is striving to build a new world in about 30 acres of fertile land near Kunamangalam village. By empowering people with intellectual disabilities and those marginalised in their communities,Sristi is promoting inclusive development by engaging them in pastoral and farm-based activities. By owning the responsibility of construction of basic infrastructure to livelihood training and creating employment opportunities, Sristi is on its way to making the village self-sustaining and eco-friendly. Whilst Sristi is a secular organisation, it celebrates diversity and encourages members to explore and honour all faiths. Sristi is proving that long-term rehabilitation of specially challenged individuals through strong local and global networking is possible.

Best Social Impact Award - Health

  • Mohan Foundation
  • Mohan Foundation

    Mohan Foundation has won the PoleStar Award for Best Social Impact in Health

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The Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (Mohan) Foundation is a nongovernmental voluntary organisation based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, dedicated to organ harvesting and transplant. The organisation's mission is to ensure that every Indian who is suffering from end-stage organ failure be provided with the 'gift of life' through a life saving organ.Their pioneering efforts range from creating public awareness on organ donation, counselling the donors' families, creating transplant co-ordinators and industry-ready professionals for the transplant community. As of date the Foundation's public education initiatives are helping a minimum of 20,000 people directly and 200,000 indirectly, every year. They train at least 300 transplant coordinators every year. The organisation has created more than 1500 industry ready professionals for the transplant community with 6000 organs and tissues being transplanted to needy patients from deceased donors. Organ waiting list web registries have been set up in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Rajasthan for organ procurement,distribution and transplantation.

Best Social Impact Award - Livelihood

  • Tarun Chetna Sansthan
  • Tarun Chetna Sansthan

    Tarun Chetna has won the PoleStar Award for Best Social Impact in Livelihood

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Tarun Chetna is a development organisation based in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, focused on changing the life of the poor and the marginalised. It was formed by a group of youth with a strong influence of the principles of Mahatma Gandhi and in is beliefs of equality and social justice. The organisation put its strength behind the mobilization of disadvantaged people, helping them gain access to information, influence decision making and use the available resource effectively to improve their status.

The organisation also works to empower women by promoting and training them in the field of agriculture.Tarun Chetna runs campaigns on gender equality, educating them on their economic and social empowerment and the value of the girl child. Effective community mobilisation programmes are conducted through community meetings to assess their needs and to ensure their participation. Tarun Chetna has made a visible difference on the ground by training farmers in science based agriculture. The yield has been remarkably improved after Tarun Chetna's intervention. A dairy processing unit has been set up to generate employment for the community and to use milk as a value generation product.

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