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Nepalese NGO Shares In "Alternative Nobel"
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 30, 2010: the Nepalese non-profit organization (NGO) called Support Activities for Poor Producers of Nepal (Sappros) and its founder Srikrishna Upadhyay have won the ‘Right Livelihood Award of 2010’ jointly with environment activists in Nigeria and Brazil and a non-profit health care organization in the Middle East on Thursday, September 30, 2010 according to the Monostersandcritics.com.
Srikrishna Upadhyay has set up Sappros in 1991. Sappros has been working on poverty reduction programs emphasizing literacy, drinking water and resource mobilization and promoting self-help groups in 19 districts of western Nepal for nineteen years.
Promoters of Sappros have said they will use the award money that they will get one fourth of the total prize money of 270,000 dollars for more work in the lees developed areas of far western Nepal.
The Right Livelihood Award is also known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize.' It has been honoring and supporting those offering practical and exemplary answers to the challenges facing the world since 1980.
