Dr.Mariazeena Johnson In #100 Women Initiative
For
the first time in the country, The Union Ministry of Women and Child
Development (MWCD) in collaboration with Facebook launched the '#100 Women Initiative', that aims to
recognize and acknowledge women who are making a difference in their
communities across the country. The
'#100 Women Initiative' involves a contest to select 100 women achievers of
India through public nominations via social media.
The
initiative was made available to public from 15th July, 2015 to 30th
September, 2015, to receive nomination by
Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Union Minister for Women and Child Development and
Ms. Ankhi Das, Director of Public Policy in South and Central Asia at Face Book.
Selection
of 100 most Impactful Women has been done after three levels of screening.
After the initial application, a Jury decides the top 200 women on the basis of
their credentials. All the selected 200 women
were uploaded in the Ministry face book page
(https://www.facebook.com/ministryWCD). This was followed by public voting for
these 200 women on Facebook. Based on the votes received under each category,
top 100 Impactful women was selected. The 100 Impactful women were selected
under various categories, each category will have only one women was selected.
Dr.
Mariazeena Johnson, Director, Sathyabama University has been selected (as one
of 100 achievers) in the category of
Education. This award is in recognition
of her contribution towards education which has made an impact in the society. Dr.
Mariazeena Johnson has done her Ph.D. from University of Madras and has
undertaken various projects for self employment of women, Viz: Inclusive education (an exclusive program
for the visually challenged and under privileged children in the society), My Saturday University, University School
Adoption Program (in which five schools have been adopted so far - Nalambakkam
Village School, Hastinapuram Government Higher Secondary School, Karappakkam
Primary School, Kannagi Nagar Government School, Ezhil Nagar Government School), Village Adoption programme (Nalabakkam
Village) are the innovative ideas that
were created and implemented by Dr. Mariazeena Johnson.
The
recipient award Dr. Mariazeena Johnson
feels that "Only a little has been done, a long way to go for the
upliftment of women and under privileged in the society and this award is an
honour for all the women fraternity".
The
awardees will be hosted by the Honoroble President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee
on 22nd January, 2016, at Rashtrapati Bhavan the day when Prime
Minister had launched "Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao" Programme.
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