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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.

 


 

 

 

 

 

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ...Mother Teresa


Mother Teresa Humanitarian
August 26, 1910 - September 5, 1997