Catégorie : 1000 women Peace Nobel 2005

Linked with CANGO.net.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: « Your work will wait for you to show natural phenomena and rainbows to your child, but these will not wait until you finish your work ».

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Sorry, I can not find any photo of Mubarak Gurbanova, Turkmenistan (see also my comment ‘Brave women without photos‘, added on June 17, 2007).

She works for Medet (1), and for Civic Dignity.

Mubarak Gurbanova is the head of the NGO Medet. She provides educational and job training opportunities to refugees, orphans, the young and the economically deprived. In four years, she has organized 100 seminars for 4000 people. She trains school teachers in the use of the new educational pedagogy on critical comprehension. As part of the Civic Dignity team she contributes to building a civil society in Turkmenistan, by providing training in civic education.

She is generous and caring towards others and is involved in many charities, without seeking her own recognition.

Mubarak was born on 17 May 1963 in the village of Goynuk in the Lebap region, Turkmenistan. She is one of nine children, and before her parents retired her mother worked as a doctor’s assistant. Her father was a teacher.

She has great enthusiasm for the English language, and when she graduated from High School in 1980 she entered the English Department of Foreign Languages faculty of Turkmen Pedagogical Institute in Charjew. In 1984 she successfully graduated from the Institute and gained a Diploma as an English teacher. In 1987 Mubarak began working as a first grade teacher, while still pursuing her dream to be appointed as an English teacher. In 1989 this dream became a reality in a school in the city of Charjew.

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Linked with CANGO.net.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: « To build a bright future we must educate the people who will construct it – our children – in the spirit of peace, love, and freedom ».

Dilorom Mukhsinova was born in 1952 in Ferghana, Uzbekistan. She has been a school secondary school teacher since 1973, whose dedication to teaching is appreciated by the local community, her colleagues, students and their parents. She is devoted to peace, freedom, and tolerance and the development of mutual understanding between people despite different views and social backgrounds. This is especially important in this region, the center of a major conflict zone in Central Asia with the danger of extremist tendencies increasing among youth and the local

population. Dilorom’s teaching supports tolerance and respect for the diverse cultures of the world and is a significant contribution to peace and harmony in her community.

Dilorom Mukhsinova – Uzbekistan

She works for the Town Council.

She graduated from Ferghana State Pedagogical Institute, English Language Department in 1973 and the Historical Department of the same Institute in 1979. She has been working since 1973 as an English and history teacher and has also been a guide for tourists in Uzbekistan. She has taught both at Ferghana State Pedagogical Institute and at a local secondary school. She has served as Deputy Directory at her school and is currently the supervisor of foreign language teachers. She was elected as a deputy of the town council of the first convocation (1995-2000) and has received an award for her role in the education of people in Uzbekistan. She is married and has two children.

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Linked with UNFPA, with 34 Million Friends of UNFPA, and with Americans for UNFPA.

They are two of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Thoraya Obaid says about them: « Lois and Jane demonstrated that citizens in the US understand that family planning, safe motherhood, and HIV/AIDS prevention are essential ».

Lois Abraham says: The fund, « doesn’t impose cultural values, by working with the culture, you set the groundwork for change to be long lasting ». And: « It is amazing what a little generosity can do ».

Jane Roberts said: “No other country has ever de-funded UNFPA for other than fiscal reasons. The country of Mali, which is one of the 10 poorest countries in the world, gives $3,000 a year. It’s just … something that you do. It’s part of a social contract, and we have reneged on this contract. Lois and I find this absolutely appalling”.

Jane Roberts and Lois Abraham – USA

They work for 34 Million Friends of UNFPA, and for Americans for UNFPA.

Money put to use, The first $1 million raised was used very practically:

• In Timor Leste, for example, the money went to fill modest but utilitarian needs;
• Purchasing two-way radios to connect the only two hospitals providing emergency obstetric care;
• Training three Timorese doctors outside the two hospitals to perform Caesarean sections, an urgently needed service;
• Providing 80 motorcycles for midwives to reach women living in areas with poor roads or without public transportation.

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She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

They tell about her: « Lalita Ramdas stepped out of a conventional and hierarchical environment to become a fearless voice in support of secularism, peace, and nuclear disarmament, often in very troubled times ».

Read: The Politics of Cricket ó Some Reflections, by Lalita Ramdas.

Lalita Ramdas – India

She works for the Pak-India Forum for Peace and Democracy PIFPD (mentionned only once, on ‘Proceedings, Recommendations and Declaration of The Third Joint Convention Calcutta‘, December 28-31, 1996).

Lalita Ramdas (born 1940) stepped out of a conventional, hierarchical environment to become a voice in support of alternative education, gender sensitivity, secularism, peace, and nuclear disarmament. In the early 1980s, she put in place pathbreaking initiatives for development education in a number of elite schools. Living in a small village in India’s west coast, she is involved in the life of the local community while pursuing citizens’ peace initiatives with Pakistan and contributing to the global adult education movement.One day she is sitting with a group of teachers in a village school talking about the violence that often characterizes local election processes, and how teachers can try to counter this by instilling values such as mutual respect, non-violence, and harmony in the minds of the young.

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Linked with Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

They says about her: « As there was a curfew in town, the oath-taking ceremony was held inside Annapurna’s house:

13-year-old Annapurna also took it-a vow to serve the country, which she keeps to this day ».

Annapurna Moharana – India

She works for the Kasturba Gandhi Memorial National Trust KGMNT, for Sarvodaya,
and for the Utkal Naagari Lipi Parishad UNLP (no website).

Annapurna Moharana has been working since she was 13 to carry forward the Gandhian tradition of peaceful protest and refusing to compromise with corruption or oppression. In the past 75-odd years, Annapurna has worked on issues ranging from setting up a tribal residential school for girls, sensitizing dacoits (members of robber bands) to pacifism, and resisting the 1975 emergency, to setting up a nursing training center that recruits and trains young women in maternity services.

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Linked with the Mahila Samakhya Programme, and with the Educational Resource Unit ERU.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

They say about her: « A single tribal woman day laborer stood up to usurious landowners, and then went on to change the developmental complexion of an entire village ».

Duiji – India

She learned by the connection with the Mahila Samakhya Programme.

Duiji (born 1942) has single-handedly changed the face of an entire village. She mobilized her community against caste-based oppression and injustice. Her efforts have led to a drastic reduction in atrocities against the Kol community. Caste-based sexual violence is practically nonexistent in her village now, and the tribals are no longer afraid of approaching the police and courts for redress. The literacy rates have shot up and the women participate more actively in community affairs.

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Linked with National Bal Bhavan, and with The Springdales Education Society.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

It is told about her: Rajni’s vision is to find ways to make the educational systems more humane, equitable, and relevant to the changing world scenario, using technology to link schools and youth globally.

Mrs. Rajni Kumar, Chairperson, Springdales Education Society, has been honoured an Honorary Doctorate degree by the Middlesex University, London, at Wembley Conference Centre on July 6th 2005. (full text).

She says: « They taught and I learnt. More importantly, through these Punjabi girls and their displaced families, I was brought face-to-face with the harsh realities of life: how lives can be shattered overnight, and how people can find the resilience and the courage to pick up the threads and build their lives anew. I marveled at it. Education was their lifeline for tomorrow. And working together, we forged lifelong friendships that endure even today ».

Rajni Kumar – India (formerly Nancie Joyce Margaret Jones)

She works for the Springdales School, New Delhi.

Rajni Kumar (formerly, Nancie Joyce Margaret Jones) was born in England on 5 March 1923 to British parents and educated at Tollington Grammar School, London. She came to India with her Indian fiancé to join the freedom struggle, and made the country her home. In 1950, she set up a school for girls displaced by the partition. This work led her to conceptualize an institution that would link the process of education with life itself, and Springdales School was born in 1955. Her many innovative school programs’ incorporating peace and human rights education in the curriculum, literacy projects, the ‘adopt a gran’ project, and many others have altered India’s outlook on education.

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Linked with Indian HIV & AIDS statistic.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

It is said about Murari Prameela: She is a dear carer to victims of HIV/AIDS and those abandoned by their families and friends in her native Guntur district, which has one of the highest percentages of HIV/Aids in India.

She says: « I do not believe in hearing a lot of lecture on love. It is our actions that matter ». And she said about a girl they cared: « We were not able to save her, but we took care of her, enabling her to live for another three years ».

She says also: « Not many people can afford medical care. The people who live on the streets do not have money or people to look after them ».

Murari Prameela – India

She works for Women for the Mercy Integrated Rural Health Care Ministries (Sorry, link not found in the internet).

A nurse and multipurpose healthworker who leads a team of seven in her native Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh, Murari Prameela is a friend and a carer for the sick and the dying. She targets sick people abandoned by their families. On average, she helps about 300 patients a month, among them Aids/HIV sufferers, and patients with leprosy, tuberculosis, high blood pressure, and heart trouble. Murari and her team also help polio-stricken children, street-children, sick beggars, and impoverished pregnant women who have little support and no access to healthcare. A lesson on Mother Theresa in her 8th grade reader inspired Murari Prameela, a resident of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh, to follow in her footsteps. There was much to be done since most people here were extremely poor, and 70 per cent of the population lived in villages, working mostly as agricultural laborers with scant access to medicare.

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Linked with Schools in Kerala, India.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

People tell about her: Leelakumari’s motivation and pragmatism are exemplary, her signal ability being to draw diverse parties into her struggle: villagers, courts, political parties, environmental groups, and doctors.

Leelakumari Amma – India

She works for the Government of Kerala.

Leelakumari Amma (born 1948) won a one-woman campaign against the pesticide lobby, government departments, and her village’s powerful plantation owners. Upon realizing that the spraying of the pesticide Endosulfan (classified as “highly toxic” by the US Environmental Protection Agency) was endangering her son’s health, she won a court order banning the aerial spraying of pesticides on her village. Her struggle has set off wide-ranging discussions on pesticide impact on health, with countries such as Cambodia banning the use of Endosulfan.Leelakumari Amma, the seventh of eleven children, was born on February 25, 1948 in a small village called Kizhuthiri near Ramapuram in Kottayam district, Kerala. Her father was a primary school teacher, her mother a home-maker. When Leelakumari was two years old, her family moved to Payyavur in Kannur district in northern Kerala (then called Malabar): her father had been asked by a Christian missionary to teach in a new school being set up for the settlers. While at school, Leelakumari joined up for an agriculture certificate course.

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She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: « I always tell my students: Think! Look for peace and beauty everywhere. If you find peace in your soul, if you see the beauty in the world around you, you will be free! I want them to realize that money alone cannot buy happiness. I want them to open the door to something more important, their hearts ».

She says also: « It was not easy at first, so we decided to work out our own democratic rules: togetherness, friendliness, fairness, happiness, empathy and self-esteem. Which in the long run resulted in WE-NESS. We are human beings first, we said, we are boys and girls or other members of the society only secondly ».

And she says: « My life was cut into two parts in April 1986, in BEFORE and in AFTER ».

Tetyana Tkachenko – Ukraine

She works for Women for the Future / Žinky za Majbutnie. This is a political party in the Ukraine. At the last legislative elections, 30 march 2002, the party won 2.1 % of the popular vote and no seats. At the last legislative elections, 26 March 2006, the party was part of the Opposition Bloc « Ne Tak« .

When the nuclear catastrophe took place, it opened her eyes and changed her life. Working in the contaminated area for five years she developed a new child-centered holistic education for peace, democracy, and ecology. Her goal was to save the children and to work for a better world.

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