SPECIAL RECOGNITION: PAVAN KUMAR DARISI
Pavan Kumar Darisi is the founder & CEO of AMERICARx, a very successful online pharmacy in the US. He is the first Indian to start Online Pharmaceutical Business.
Darisi established the Darisi Seva Samastha, a charitable trust for the underprivileged and in 2003, he was elected president of the World Arya Vysya Mahasabha. It is through these two organisations, that Darisi has provided many years of dedicated public service. His compassion to help people and his philanthropic acts to support various community projects has made Darisi a role model for thousands in Andhra Padesh, India.
Darisi has spent over Rs 6 crore on community development works like building link roads and bridges, bus shelters, marriage and community halls, donations for ambulance vans, boring wells and for pumps for 30 Harijan colonies, and free medical camps in a number of less privileged areas in Andhra Pradesh. There are several road junctions named after him. Darisi has also donated money for construction and renovation of temple buildings in many places. For his humanitarian works, Darisi has been recognised and honored by many organisations and agencies.
DR GANESH CHAND
Dr Ganesh Chand, an Indo Fijian, holds a PhD from the US and has taught at the University of the South Pacific for 18 years. He currently serves as a member of the Council of the University.
Dr Chand became a leading campaigner for democracy in Fiji after the 1987 military coup and led numerous pro-democracy protests. In 1999, he was elected to Parliament and became the minister for national planning, local government, housing and environment. He was re-elected to the Fijian Parliament in 2001. In 2005, Dr Chand established the University of Fiji to cater to the needs of underprivileged students.
He is an accomplished author too and is the publisher and editor of Fijian Studies: A Journal of Contemporary Fiji. He is also the founder of www.fijigirmit.org, a website dedicated to Indian indentured workers in Fiji.
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