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Six
Indians get UN online volunteering award
Friday December 03, 2010 06:31:17 PM ,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Six Indians have been chosen for the United Nations Volunteers (UNV)
online volunteering award for their articles which helped spread
awareness on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), a statement
said Friday.
The MDGs are eight international
development goals that all 192 United Nations member states and at
least 23 international organisations have agreed to achieve by the
year 2015.
They include eradicating extreme poverty, reducing child mortality
rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a
global partnership for development.
"India's voluntary sector has a formidable challenge and at the
same time fantastic opportunities ahead. If India does not achieve
the MDGs, the world will not. The mobilisation of volunteers from
all walks of life can help accelerating progress towards achieving
the MDGs before the 2015 deadline," United Nations resident
coordinator Patrice Coeur-Bizot said.
The six award winners who are among the total ten selected are
Ritika Verma, Priyanka Ohri, Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma, Akanksha
Gulia, Tarun Chawla and Radha Taralekar.
The volunteers, through their online work, focussed on the
marginalised and disadvantaged, particularly through supporting
local government efforts to address social exclusion in planning
processes, mobilizing people to recognise the importance of the
MDGs, the statement said.
They also initiated a Right to Information campaign in Orissa
which aimed to raise awareness on MDGs, it added.
The awards are hosted by the German Positive Nett-Works
Association.
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