Observing birth day of Mahatma Gandhi , former Prime Minister lalbahadur Shastri and the International Nonviolence Day, the Maa Ghara conducted a two-day workshop on “Parenting for peace (P4P)”.
The father of (P4P) concept, head, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Gujarat Police IG Dr Hasmukh Patel, paediatrician Dr Kamlesh Parekh and psychiatrist Dr Arati Meheta trained 200 attendees including doctors, professors, teachers, social workers and members of the Maa Ghara Foundation on the art of proper parenting and its role in the making of a peaceful youth population.
Researcher Dr Sudhir Brahma, Dr Darshan Panda, Dr Dhirendra Kumar Singh, Madhumita Dash, Dr Hiranmayee Mishra and Dr RK Panda also spoke and trained the audience.
The (P4P) training team marched in a procession towards the Gandhi Park near Janta Maidan where they carried out a peace prayer followed by a discussion on Mahatma Gandhi’s dream for complete Swaraj and its success stories. Social worker Guruprasad, Munna Tripathy, Prabhakar Hantal, Madhusudan Das, Deepak Mohanty, Muralidhar Barada, Arun Rout, Dandapani Mohapatra Abhijit and Ashok led the programme.
Singer Geeta Patnaik, actress and writer Malabika Ray, writer and social activist Jemamani Bisoi, social worker Minati Debate and journalist Supriya Dash were felicitated with Maa Ghara Women Peace Maker Award- 2017.
Besides, for their dedication and incessant contribution to the banning of illegal liquor and protection of women and children rights at grass root level, Maa Ghara women leaders Kadambini Tripathy of Nabarangpur, Joytsna Mohanty of Baleswar, Prashanti Bisoyee of Malkangiri, Sabitri Rout of Mayurbhanj and Suchanda Mohapatra of Baliapala were awarded with “Shreshtha Maa Samman-2017”.
For establishment of peace and promoting it through their vocations, Peace Promoter-2017 award was presented to industrialist Mahendra Gupta, Jagganath Mohapatra, researcher Darshan Panda, social worker Sunita Gupta and journalist Mahesh Sharma.
Maa Ghara Foundation president Rutuparna Mohanty among others was present.