An Indian wins GUSI peace Prize 2014

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Achyuta Samanta, Founder of KIIT & KISS. Photo: www.enarada.com

ENARADA, Bhubaneshwar, November 22, 2014

Achyuta Samanta

Achyuta Samanta, founder of KIIT & KISS from India is among 15 Laureates selected for GUSI Peace Prize 2014. Photo by ENARADA.COM

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An Indian and 14 others will receive the prestigious GUSI Peace Prize at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila on November 26, 2014. The list of awardees is duly approved by the Philippines Senate.

Achyuta Samanta from Odisha in India has been chosen for the award for ‘Poverty Alleviation through Education and Humanitarianism’.

The Gusi Peace Prize envisions itself to approximate the honor and respect accorded to the Nobel Peace Prize of Norway, and the Pulitzer of the United States of America.

Samanta has been relentlessly working for the uplift of poorest of the poor indigenous community in Odisha for the last two and a half decades. His passion to provide a level playing field to this most neglected section of the society led him to establish Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), a free residential institute for 22,500 tribal children. He also founded KIIT, a group of professional institutes, to support this social enterprise. KISS has received worldwide recognition as an effective model of empowerment of indigenous people through education. His model is now being replicated in many states of India as well as abroad.

Dr. Hans Koechler from AUSTRIA, Dr. Atiur Rahman from BANGLADESH, Dr. Manson Fok from CHINA, Prof. Virima Mudogo from CONGO, Hon. Dominique Hoppe from FRANCE, Prof. Gerhard Bringmann from GERMANY, Hon. Parviz Pargari from IRAN, Dr. Luigi Pellegrini from ITALY, Prof. Yoshinory Asakawa from JAPAN, Former President Vytautas Landsbergis from LITHUANIA, Hon. Bhojraj Pokharel from NEPAL, Sen. Cynthia a. Villar from PHILIPPINES, Dr. Kazimierz Glowniak from POLAND and Hon. Saad Nahar Al-Baddah Almutairi from KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA, are the other laureates selected for GUSI Peace Prize 2014.

Achyuta Samanta is the third Indian and first person from the State of Odisha to receive this award since its inception.

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