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Nileema Mishra is a social
worker from the Indian state of Maharashtra. She
received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent
Leadership in 2011. Nileema was born into a
lower-middle-class family in 1972 in the village
of Bahadarpur Taluka Parola, District- Jalgaon,
Maharashtra. She is a postgraduate in psychology
from the University of Pune. After her
education, she worked with Vigyan Ashram, Pabal
under the guidance of Dr Kalbagh. She
registered Bhagini Nivedita Gramin Vigyan
Niketan formally in the year 2005 with the help
of Dr Jagannath Wani. Nileema has association
with Caring Friends, Mumbai and Let's Dream
foundation, Delhi.[1] She donated her award
money to her Bhagini Nivedita Gramin Vigyan
Niketan, which helps poor women through
micro-financing.[2] She was awarded Padma
Shri in 2013 for social work.[3] |