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• INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2017 - WOMAN HONOUR AWARD Founder of Aksharika Education Foundation, Anusha Uikey honoured on the International Women's Day 2017 with “MAHILA VIBHUTI SAMMAN – SAMAJSEVA” (Woman Honour Award in Social Work) received from Hon. Maya Singh (Minister, Urban Development & Environment Department, Govt. of M.P.), Aruna Mohan Rao (Addl. Director General of Police, Crime against Women) and Madhuri Mishra (Founder, Apnaghar Oldage Home) in a felicitation ceremony by Gourajan Uththan va Kalyan Sanstha, Bhopal. • ANKITA BARCHE INTERVIEWS AKSHARIKA FOR INDIA NEWS MP CH Story of Aksharika on India News MP CH - Good News. • IPS OFFICER VISIT AT AKSHARIKA Shri Manish Shanker Sharma, Inspector General of Police, Special Armed Forces, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh visited our Kolar Colony centre. • INDEPENDENCE DAY 2016 Shri L.S. Hardania ji, veteran journalist and President of National Secular Forum, rewarding Junior Volunteers with his latest book on NEHRU. Children also received the blessings of Fr. Maria Stephen from Pastoral Centre. • INDEPENDENCE DAY 2016 Coverage of 70th Independence Day celebration event at Aksharika in DB Post. • WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2016 Coverage of Poster making & Rally for environmental awareness by the children of slums of Rahul Nagar & Kolar Colony, Bhopal by Absolute India. • MOTHERS DAY 2016 Coverage of Mothers Day celebration at Aksharika Children's Library at Kolar Colony slum of Bhopal by the Hindi daily Hitavada. • WORLD BOOK DAY 2016 Coverage of World Book Day celebration at Aksharika Children's Library at Rahul Nagar slum of Bhopal by the Hindi daily Navbharat. • AKSHARIKA CHILDREN'S LIBRARY PROJECT Himanshu Soni’s exclusive story on our LIBRARY PROJECT for slum children in Bhopal published in People's Samachar. • WOMEN ACHIEVERS - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2016 Naidunia’s special print edition on women achievers and social leaders on the International Women’s Day recognized our Founder & Director Anusha Uikey as a ‘woman who inspire’. The feature titled ‘Nari – Sacrifice, Will Power & Role Models’ highlighted Anusha’s story of founding AKSHARIKA to uplift slum children with the headline ‘Education will make us all progress’. For full story read the Epaper - Naiduniya 8thMar2016 Bhopal. • SELF DEFENSE TRAINING FOR GIRLS HT journo M Poornima covers our Girls Self Defense Group. 'EMPOWERING SLUM GIRLS TO KICK BACK EVE TEASERS' a story about our First Self Defense Batch of Teenage Girls. Read it online - HindustanTimes 4thOct2015 Bhopal. • JOY OF GIVING IN COLLABORATION WITH PEOPLE’S PUBLIC SCHOOL Largest ever #SantaGifts received from People’s Public School, Bhopal during the Christmas Week. Over 1000 pair of Clothes & set of Toys distributed to around 850 children residing in slums & on construction sites at 7 locations in Bhopal. More pictures on our Facebook page.