Last year, I came to know Indira Ranamagar. What an inspiring selfless woman who has helped so many helpless human souls. Indira Ranamagar was nominated for the 2014 World’s Children’s Prize for her 20-year struggle for prisoner’s children in Nepal.

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Indira grew up in extreme poverty and had to fight to be able to go to school. Even as a young girl shew knew that she wanted to help other people who had hard lives.

Indira has built up and organization called Prisoners Assistance Nepal (PA), which has rescued over a thousand children from cramped, dirty prisons. The children end up there because their parents have been sentenced to time in prison and nobody else is able to take care of them. When Indira rescues children, they are taken to one of PA’s three children’s homes. There they get an education and a safe childhood. They also learn agricultural skills and how to take care of animals. PA runs a children’s home called Jankuri outside Kathmandu. Children from the surrounding villages are allowed to attend the school too.

Indira lobbies politicians and authorities to make prisons more humane. Many prisoners come from very poor families. Indira and PA teach them to read and write, so that they can manage better, and take better care of their children when they are released from prison.

 

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