Harmony Foundation To Confer Tulsi Gowda, Others With Mother Teresa Memorial Award 2021

Harmony Foundation, an NGO based in Mumbai, identifies a theme for the Mother Teresa Memorial Awards and the Harmony International Conference each year that aligns with the need of the hour affecting humanity worldwide.

This year, the foundation embarks on the Awards’ 17th year of felicitating selfless individuals and organizations who work relentlessly in the realm of Environmental Sustainability.

“A sustainable environment is monumental for the survival of humanity and other species of our planet. While humanity marches ahead in all spheres of what it terms progress, we forget our responsibility to its own future. After all, we do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. Unsustainable developmental practices have exerted traumatic pressure on the ecosystem and damaged it beyond repair. The Harmony Foundation is proud to acknowledge the diversity of individuals from various walks of life, from students to corporates, who are no less than the warrior-visionaries of our times,” Harmony Foundation said in a press release on Sunday. 

This year, Harmony foundation will felicitate following people:

Ms. Tulsi Gowda – A Padma Shree, being awarded for her astounding and inspirational contribution towards conservation of trees and her prodigious traditional knowledge of the same.

Ms. Aadya Joshi – Recipient of the Children’s Climate Prize 2020: a young dynamic girl from India who is the pioneer and founder of The Right Green initiative, an initiative that spreads awareness by educating children and municipal authorities about using native plants to create biodiversity-rich ecosystems in urban environments.

Paani Foundation – Awarded for their impeccable and extraordinary mission to create a drought-free Maharashtra, which is ecologically as well as economically prosperous.

Mr Subojit Mukherjee – Awarded for his exceptionally insightful efforts to amplify the green cover in and around Mumbai, and as a Jal Rakshak, for his leading innovations in rainwater harvesting.

Apart from the four winners of the Mother Teresa Memorial Award, others to be felicitated are as following:

Pollution Coalition: Awarded for their role in leading a remarkable social movement that seeks to create a world free of plastic pollution, and its hazardous impact on the planet.

Missio Munich: Awarded for their role in leading incredible and extraordinary endeavours in the preservation of the diversity of life, and maintaining the sustainability and addressing concerns of climate change especially in the developing nations.

WeForest: Awarded for their role in leading a sustainable reforestation movement, conserving the ecological integrity of forests and in addressing the planet’s most grave challenges: global warming, water scarcity and poverty.

Ms. Jamuna Tudu: Awarded for her relentless and gallantry spirit as a Green Crusader to conserve, protect and preserve the forests of Jharkhand.

Dr.Anil Prakash Joshi: Awarded for his outstanding efforts in environmental sustainability by impacting over 10,000 villages in Himalayan region through his Himalayan Environmental Studies & Conservation Organisation (HESCO).

Mr. Vidyut Moha: Awarded for his seminal, ingenious and phenomenal efforts in combating air pollution through his monumental social enterprise Takachar.

Ms. Vinisha Umashankar: Awarded for her astounding and notable efforts as a youth environmental activist and innovator in addressing serious issues of the environment through her innovative technology :The Solar Ironing Cart . .

Ms Ridhima Pandey: Awarded for her spectacular courage, and indomitable spirit as a youth environmental activist who has galvanised national participation to halt climate change.

The event to felicitate the aforementioned will be held at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai on December 13, 2021. The four winners of the award, along with others, will be felicitated by Maharashtra’s governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.