Prakash Baba Amte is a social worker from
Maharashtra and is the younger son of Magsaysay awardee Baba Amte. He and his
wife, Dr. 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 Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra and the neighboring states of
Telangana and Madhya Pradesh.
He left his M.S. and moved to Hemalkasa to start
the Lok Biradari Prakalp in 1973, a project
for the development of tribal people, most of whom were the Madia Gond in the
forests of Gadchiroli district in 1973. He
lived and worked there without electricity, telephone etc. For almost twenty
years and at times performed emergency surgical procedures without electricity.
The project transformed into three things: a hospital,
Lok Biradari Prakalp Davakhana, a residential school Lok Biradari Prakalp
Ashram Shala and an orphanage for injured wild animals the Amte's Animal Park.
It seeks to improve health and educational services for tribals in the area.
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