Dr. Prakash Baba Amte - The Real Hero
Padma Shri, Community Leader, Philanthropist, Magsaysay Award Winner
Mandakini Amte and Prakash Amte during the interactive session at MIT college.
Introduction
Prakash Baba Amte is a social worker from Maharashtra, India. Amte and his wife, Mandakini Amte, were awarded the Magsaysay Award for 'Community Leadership' in 2008 for their philanthropic work in the form of the Lok Biradari Prakalp amongst the Madia Gonds in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.
Early Life
Prakash Amte is the second son of Magsaysay awardee Baba Amte. He obtained a medical degree from Government Medical College (GMC), Nagpur,and he met his wife Mandakini during their post graduation studies at Government Medical College (GMC), Nagpur.
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Awards
"आयुष्यात भावनेपेक्षा कर्तव्य महत्वाचे असते."
- Dr. Prakash Baba Amte
Social Work
Animal Arc
Dr. Prakash Amte saved the wild animals from man’s cruelty by starting the ‘Animal Ark’, an animal orphanage that started with an orphaned baby monkey and has now blossomed into a home for leopards, snakes, hyenas. At one point the shelter also had a lion.
Lok Biradari Prakalp
Dr. Prakash Amte and his wife Dr. Mandakini Amte volunteered to work among the Madias. Gradually building trust with the tribe and providing free healthcare assistance and basic education to their children, Lok Biradari Prakalp has come a long way. Today, with a multi-speciality hospital, a hostel school which has created engineers and doctors and livelihood opportunities for the tribes, LBP has got the Madia-Gonds into the mainstream.