Thursday, October 9, 2014

Anoop Jain won 2014 Waislitz Global Citizen Award

Anoop Jain won 2014 Waislitz Global Citizen Award. He was awarded for his exemplified values of a Global Citizen through his work in founding Humanure Power (HP) in Bihar in 2011 that builds community sanitation facilities in rural India. The award carried a cash prize of 100000 US dollar in recognition to the work. Anoop Jain was chosen the winner after getting the maximum votes by people from across the world.

Jain was among the four finalists for the award. Among the other finalists was another young Indian Swapnil Chaturvedi who founded Samagra Sanitation which is focussed on providing awesome sanitation services to the urban poor in India.


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