Inderjit Khurna to receive WCRP-2007 award

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Bhubaneswar, Jan 18 (UNI) Ruchika Social Service Organisation (RSSO) secretary Inderjit Khurana has been selected for the World Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCRP) 2007, for her contribution to the rights of the underprivileged children.

Ms Khurana had been running over a hundred schools, including schools for the railway children in major railway stations in the state.

This apart she had been running three telephone helplines for the destitute, street boys and girls and helping the most vulnerable children, who were living and working on station platforms city pavements and slums.

According to intimation from WCRP Executive Director Magnus Bergmar, besides Ms Khurana, two others - Cynthia Maung from Burma and Betty Makoni from Zimbabwe - were selected for the award.

All the three together would receive the award money of 140,000 US Dollar.

The award giving ceremony would be held on April 16 next at Gripsholm Castle in Mariefred where Queen Silva of Sweden would help the children give away the prize.

WCRP sources said about 11 million students of 20,000 schools in 82 countries participated and voted for the award. About five million of these children would participate in a global vote to determine who would receive the Global Friends award 2007.

Ms Khurana had used the innovative strategies like a school on wheels, schools on the train platforms, bus terminus and successfully educated and empowered a number of children who had found it difficult to attend schools.

She would be leaving for Stockholm along with two children and a senior staff of the organisation to interact with the school children of Sweden for ten days before receiving the award.

Ms Khurana had already received the Derozio award 2006 for her contribution in the field of education and human enrichment. The American Public Broadcasting had also selected her as one of the ten new heroes in the world in 2004 and telecast her innovative educational work for children in the USA and Europe.

UNI

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