Sister Lucy Kurien of Maher selected to receive the Nari Shakti Puraskar 2015
Moneylife Digital Team 05 March 2016
The award will be presented to Sister Lucy Kurien by the President of India in a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi on 8 March 2016 on the occasion of International Women’s Day
 
Sister Lucy Kurien of Maher has been selected to receive the Nari Shakti Puraskar 2015 for her outstanding contribution to women's empowerment. The children of Maher come from the streets and slums, from begging communities, from parents unable to care for them, from other institutions that have rejected them. They come for short- or long-term stays, and for as long as they live at Maher, they receive schooling, tutoring, excellent nutrition and meditation.
 
Today, Maher operates 36 houses served by a veritable army of loving doctors, social workers, teachers, trustees, business people and volunteers, providing homes for close to 1,200 full-time residents (860 children, 300 women - including 120 mentally ill women and 31 mentally ill or aged and destitute men). Thousands more are reached by Maher’s community outreach programmes such as self-help groups, kindergarten schools, village libraries, street theatre performances and health and education initiatives. All are welcome at Maher—regardless of religion, gender, caste, colour, creed, or social status. Maher was founded by Sister Lucy Kurien in 1997 in Pune district in Maharashtra.
 
The award will be presented to Sister Lucy Kurien by the President of India in a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi on 8 March 2016 on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
 
Moneylife magazine has done its little bit to make Maher well known to readers and donors by publishing an article about it in the Beyond Money page of the Issue dated 17 March 2016. You can read it online here.
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