Mother Teresa Award
to NRI Dr.Raghbir Singh Bains for Voluntary Services of NRI (
Category )
Chandigarh, February 02, 2008
Gurmeet Singh
On February 02, "Voluntary Health Association of Punjab"
has awarded "Mother Teresa Award" to NRI Dr.Raghbir
Singh Bains for Voluntary Services for NRI ( Category ) Award
for the year 2008.
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Voluntary Health Association of Punjab's mission is Good health
for all, Primary health care & awareness towards balanced
diet, Community health including social, Moral, Physical aspects,
Social Justice, specially in the field of Education, Community
Based Love, Peace & Liberty awareness towards AIDS, Uplift
of Mahila Madals, Awareness among rural women & legal advice
to promote science activities, Origami, Rational use of Drugs
and Campaign against female foeticide in Punjab
The late Mother Teresa often said, “The world is hungry
not only for food, but also for beauty.” The Mother Teresa
Awards was founded to recognize the achievements of those who
beautify the world, especially in the fields of religion, social
justice and the arts.
Mother Teresa, whose original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu,
was born on August 26, 1910 in what is now Skopje, Macedonia.
She always wrote her birthday as the 27th of August because that
was the day of her baptism, which was always more important to
her than her birth. For her work with the poor around the world
she received the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1928 she joined a religious order and took the name Teresa.
The order immediately sent her to India. A few years later, she
began teaching in Calcutta, and in 1948 the Catholic Church granted
her permission to leave her convent and work among the city's
poor people. She became an Indian citizen that same year. In 1950,
she founded a religious order in Calcutta called the Missionaries
of Charity. The order provides food for the needy and operates
hospitals, schools, orphanages, youth centers, and shelters for
lepers and the dying poor. It now has branches in 50 Indian cities
and 30 other countries.
In addition to the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa has
received other awards for her work with the needy. These awards
include the 1971 Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and India's Jawaharlal
Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1972. Mother Teresa
died on September 5, 1997. She is sorely missed.
Internationally known septuagenarian, a Sikh scholar, drug therapist,
encyclopaedist and a museologist Dr Raghbir Singh Bains O.B.C.
was honoured by ‘Voluntary Health Association Punjab’
for his distinguished services to weed out social evils from the
global society. He is a multifaceted personality who has earned
accolades from all corners of the world for selflessly serving
the distressed people. Dr Bains is a tireless volunteer, community
activist, educator, mentor and a known role model who brought
fair name to the society by promoting religio-socio-cultural understanding
and mutual respect amongst the diverse communities.
VHAP is non-government organization that is engaged in improving
public health. Its mission is to fight against the social evils
and menace of HIV-AIDS He lives in Surrey, B.C. Canada.