Dr. Abraham M.

George
• Dr. Abraham M. George is a prominent Indian-American businessman, academic, and
philanthropist.
• George was born and brought up in the seaside city of Trivandrum, Kerala, at the
southwestern tip of India.
• George's first posting in 1966 was to the Northeast Frontier that borders China, following
the Chinese invasion of 1962.
• He is the founder of The George Foundation (TGF), a non-profit organization based in
Bangalore, India dedicated to the welfare and empowerment of economically and socially
disadvantaged populations in India.
• His foundation has initiated numerous projects in poverty alleviation, education, health,
women's empowerment, and press freedom.

• It include the creation of Shanti Bhavan, a free K-12 boarding school of international
standards for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, and the creation of the now
prestigious Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media, a graduate school of journalism in
Bangalore where he currently serves as the dean. He also pioneered the successful effort
to remove lead content from gasoline throughout India in April 2000 and was instrumental
in the creation of the National Referral Centre for Lead Poisoning in India.

• In addition to his philanthropic efforts, George is currently Chairman of eMedexOnline

LLC, a medical diagnostic software company in New Jersey, and an Adjunct Professor at
Stern School of Business, New York University.
Ela Ramesh Bhatt
• Ela Ramesh Bhatt (born on 7 September 1933
in the city of Ahmadabad in India) is the
founder of the Self-Employed Women's
Association of India (SEWA).
• A lawyer by training, Bhatt is a respected
leader of the international labour, cooperative,
women, and micro-finance movements who
has won several national and international
awards.
Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy
• Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy (born 2 August 1945) is an Indian social activist and educator. In 1972 he
founded the Barefoot college in Tilonia, Rajasthan. The Indian non-governmental organization
was registered as the Social Work and Research Centre.
• He was selected as one of Time 100, the 100 most influential personalities in the world by TIME
Magazine in 2010.
• In 2002 he was selected for Geneva-based Schwab Foundation's award.
• Bunker Roy was born in Burnpur Bengal, present-day West Bengal. His father was a mechanical
engineer and his mother retired as India's trade commissioner to Russia.[4]

• He went to the Doon School from 1956 to 1962 and attended St. Stephen's College, Delhi from
1962 to 1967. He earned his master's degree in English. He then decided to devote himself to
social service, to the shock of his parents.
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• Career

• Bunker Roy, after his education, decided to work in the villages much to the chagrin of his
parents. His dream of using traditional expertise rather than "bookish knowledge" for the uplift
of neglected communities. He has worked all his life with the Barefoot College, an NGO that he
founded.[5]

• Barefoot College has trained more than 3 million people for jobs in the modern world, in
buildings so rudimentary they have dirt floors and no chairs.[6] The rural youth selected by the
community have to be impoverished, subsisting on barely one meal a day to receive training at
Barefoot college.
Mother Teresa
• Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha
Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on August
26**, 1910. Her family was of Albanian
descent.