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Maharashtra's 'Mother of Orphans' wins Woman Of The Year Award
Saturday June 04, 2011 05:37:02 PM,
IANS
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Pune:
Born as an unwanted child and bred in poverty and obscurity,
eminent social worker Sindhutai Sapkal, who is known as the
'Mother of Orphans' in Maharashtra, has been conferred the Woman
Of The Year Award by the Ladies Wing of the Indian Merchants
Chamber.
The award was presented to Sapkal at a glittering function here
Friday night by President of Innovation Society and Industrialist
Pratima Kirloskar, who was the chief guest at the ceremony.
Born in a poor family, Sapkal was nicknamed 'Chindi' or a rag, and
could attend school only till fourth standard. She was married off
at the age of nine and abandoned by her husband at 20 - she left
her home with an infant daughter in her arms.
Sapkal eked out a living begging on the streets and trains where
she met thousands of orphans and abandoned women like her.
She started her social work by adopting the orphans and has
adopted over 1,000 children till date and nurtured them through
donations and charities.
She has set up around a dozen orphanages throughout the state.
Later, even her estranged husband and in-laws came to her for help
and she accepted them without bitterness.
In her early days, she donated her own daughter to an orphanage to
remove the distinction between her biological child and orphans.
Her life was immortalised in an award-winning biographical Marathi
movie "Mee Sindhutai Sapkal" in 2010, made by Anant Mahadevan.
Responding to the felicitations, Sapkal said that people must
bravely face all the hurdles that come in their way in life.
"Life is its own reward. There is a God in every grain of sand who
takes care of you - live on with love and face the world with a
smile," Sapkal said amidst thunderous applause by the gathering of
eminent business personalities, social leaders, diplomats and
other invitees.
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