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KENSINGTON, N.H., Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation, an advocate for social justice, in the present day introduced two further recipients of the 2023 Alnoba Environmental Leadership Awards. The Alnoba International Indigenous Leadership Award will probably be introduced to Celia Xakriabá, Indigenous Representative, Brazil Chamber of Deputies. The recipient of the Alnoba Moment of Truth Award for Leadership for Gender Equity is Ruchira Gupta, Founder, APNE AAP Women Worldwide.
Each Alnoba Leadership Award features a $10,000 donation within the recipient’s identify to the nonprofit of their alternative. The awards will probably be introduced on the Alnoba Environmental Leadership Awards Dinner on October 4, 2023.
The Alnoba Environmental Leadership Awards have been launched by Harriet and Alan E. Lewis in 2018 to honor daring leaders who’ve made huge strides in the direction of environmental and social justice.
Celia Xakriabá, Indigenous Representative, Brazil Chamber of Deputies
The Alnoba International Indigenous Leadership Award honors an Indigenous chief outdoors the U.S. who serves as a daring defender of Mother Earth, conjures up communities to motion and one who honors and applies conventional beliefs to probably the most urgent environmental issues of our day.
Célia Xakriabá is a teacher, poet, and activist from the Xakriabá individuals within the Cerrado biome of Brazil. She is without doubt one of the founders of the National Association of Ancestral Indigenous Women Warriors (ANMIGA) and a number one member of the Indigenous girls’s motion in Brazil. She additionally helped to create the “Reforesting Minds” motion based mostly on Indigenous ancestry and knowledge which advocates for a change in consciousness among the many international public about planetary preservation.
Since 2017, Xakriabá has spoken at numerous conferences and debates at universities in Brazil, selling, amongst different issues, advancing the standing and rights of Indigenous girls, land rights, schooling, and inspiring the revitalization of native languages in Brazil.
Ruchira Gupta, Founder, APNE AAP Women Worldwide
The Alnoba Moment of Truth Award for Leadership for Gender Equity honors an activist chief who had the braveness to lift the world’s consideration to an enormous challenge of our time, and rally allies and sources to make an actual and lasting influence.
For greater than three many years, Ruchira Gupta has campaigned for a world the place no woman or lady is purchased or bought. Along with 22 brave girls in prostitution, she based APNE AAP Women Worldwide, which is a grassroots Indian group that empowers marginalized women and girls to withstand and finish intercourse trafficking. To date, she has helped greater than 20,000 girls and women escape prostitution.
While on task as a journalist in Nepal, Gupta stumbled upon rows of villages with lacking women and requested the villagers the place all the ladies have been. That query modified her life. She discovered that little women as younger as twelve have been smuggled throughout the border and bought into brothels in India. She associated the story in a documentary, The Selling of Innocents, and received an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. Wanting to do extra, she give up journalism and began APNE APP contained in the red-light areas of India and commenced to work with the United Nations everywhere in the world.
I Kick and I Fly is her debut fiction novel based mostly on the true tales that she witnessed and skilled as an activist in APNE AAP. She has been given the French Ordre National du Mérite, Clinton Global Citizen Award, and the UN NGO CSW Woman of Distinction award amongst different honors for her contribution to the institution of the UN Trafficking Fund for Survivors, the passage of the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act and her grassroots activism with APNE AAP. She has co-written a e-book with Gloria Steinem, As if Women Matter, and edited two anthologies, River of Flesh and Renu’s Letters to Birju Babu.
For extra details about Alnoba or the Alnoba Environmental Leadership Awards, go to http://www.alnoba.org.
About Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation
The Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation (ALFF) is devoted to creating brave management and sustainability fashions to assist change individuals’s lives, create stronger communities and save the earth we share. ALFF is the umbrella group for Alnoba’s public programming, conservation efforts, philanthropic giving, and nonprofit management work. ALFF has pledged or donated greater than $250 million since 1981. The group’s work is concentrated on the Lewis household’s hometowns of Boston, MA and Kensington, NH and inside the international villages the place their firm, Grand Circle Corporation, travels.
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