Social activist Urmila Chanam among three awarded VOF by World Pulse

IMPHAL, June 21: Social activist Urmila Chanam from Manipur was among three from across the world who were awarded Voices of Our Future Award by World Pulse, a social networking platform connecting women from 190 countries across the world with a vision to amplify women’s voices to speed up change and improve the lives of millions around the world. The other two are Sadaf Kashif from Pakistan and

Carolyn Seaman from Nigeria.

The three received the award for utilizing technology to achieve high impact on community issues of menstrual hygiene, child marriage and girls empowerment.

The award includes a cash prize of $1500 USD, full promotions on WorldPulse.com and via official World Pulse marketing and media channels to bring greater visibility to the issues these leaders have championed for.

Thirty powerful and awe-inspiring women leaders representing 21 countries were first selected to undertake a two month-long digital media and women empowerment program to compete and push their vision to the global arena for attention, action and change under the close mentorship, monitoring and assessment from World Pulse.

The three winners were selected following a stringent procedure based on their vision, their ability to map resources, implementation, use of technology and extent of outreach.

Urmila Chanam positioned menstrual hygiene and the taboos and myths around periods as the biggest barrier to woman’s health in this global platform. She chose to focus on raising awareness and resources for “Breaking the Silence,” a campaign that has already won her awards like the UNFPA National Laadli Award in 2015 for the Best Social Media Campaign in India.