Mrs. Jayshree Ravindra Shelar

                       For Women Empowerment and Breast Cancer Awareness. As a woman ‘Covid Warrior’ from Satara, Jayshree has been selflessly serving Covid patients and their relatives day and night for the past year and a half, supporting them in every way along with her Hirkani Foundation team.

                        She has been a familiar face outside Satara Civil Hospital, providing tiffins to Covid patients and their relatives when most people feared stepping out. Setting aside her family responsibilities for the past year, Jayshree made herself available round the clock, always just a call away for those who weren’t getting beds, ambulances, medicines, plasma, blood and oxygen. In the inaccessible hilly areas of Jawali, she formed the Jawali Covid Emergency Group, raised funds, and herself ferried Covid patients to hospital on her scooty. She tended to patients at the Satara Jumbo Covid Centre, sitting up whole nights personally tending to them and connecting their oxygen tubes.

                       She even performed the last rites of those who succumbed to Covid. After Covid cases dropped, she has been helping widows of Covid victims stand on their own feet economically, and is helping their children continue their education by providing them with books and study materials. She organised blood donation camps, plasma donation camps, health check-up camps, and facilitated oxygen machines. Her Hirkani Foundation has been distributing food kits to poor families and continues to provide guidance for treatment of Covid patients, offer counselling, and is helping delivery of medicines to the elderly. Going forward, her Hirkani group is planning to continue their work to serve people.

OTHER SOCIAL WORK ACTIVITIES

Running slum area school for 35 children in Satara district since June 2021.

Organised first Pinkathon Run (2020) in Satara, in association with model-actor Milind Soman; organised Cancer Health Screening Camp.

Organised Shivjayanti Doud, Pink Revolution Run for women empowerment
Founded more than 100 Mahila Bachat Gats (SHGs) in Jawali Taluka, Satara district.

Helped create jobs for women through Sarthak Bachat Gat Federation; provided business guidance to more than 200 women.

As Satara District President of AITC Maharashtra State Employees Union for 5 years, worked to address issues of Anganwadi teachers by organising protests in Nagpur, Delhi and Mumbai.

Worked as Sakal Tanishq District Coordinator for 4 years; implemented mobile banking training and self-defence programmes for more than 21,000 women
Organised Cancer Awareness Camps in rural areas, besides health camps, eye donation camps, blood donation camps, and AIDS awareness campaigns.

Organised organ donation drives, tree-planting campaigns, de-addiction campaigns, Save Girl Child campaigns, ‘Save Water’ and ‘Save Tree’ campaigns, plastic eradication campaigns, Vanva Mukta Satara campaigns, Kaas waste disposal campaigns, polio eradication campaigns, and campaign for malnutrition-free Maharashtra.

Through Soyrik Marriage Bureau, helped match-making for poor farmers’ children and children of soldiers, organised free matrimonial camps, helped marry widows and orphan girls.

Worked for conservation of forts through Hirkani Foundation; organised social events through ‘Pink India’ team.

Helped rehabilitate families of Army martyrs through Hirkani Foundation
Under the guidance of Vivekananda Trust, created self-help group businesses and helped them identify markets; organised employment guidance camp, Orgnised HPV vaccination camp in all over Maharashtra State.

Worked as District Organiser of Friends of Police Association and helped with work of Anti-Corruption Campaign Committee.

Leading fight for justice and rights of drought, flood and dam-affected people
Worked to solve water problems as member of Bodanrwadi Dam Action Council, Jawali Taluka.

Organised programmes to promote artistic talents of women, children through Hirkani Foundation, Working to raise funds for employment training of needy women farmers

AWARDS

District-level

• Rotary Club Covid Warriors Award, 2021
• Inner Wheel Club Social Activity Award, 2021
• Lions Club Covid Warriors Award, 2021
• Buldhana Urban Bank Woman Icon Award, 2021

State-level

• Shiv Sena Medical Help Cell ‘Covid Warrior Award 2021’
• Corruption Committee Delhi ‘Covid Warrior Award 2021’
• Maharshtrachi Navdurga Award, 2021
• Organ Donation Movement, Participation Award, 2016
• Award for Outstanding Woman Organiser, ITC Workers Union, 2013
• Rajmata Jijau Women Empowerment Award, 2005

National

• Bombay Blood Group ‘Aadarsh Blood Donor National Award 2021’
• Covid Warrior Award, WMO, 2021
• Best City Pikanthon Ambassador, 2019
• Krida Parishad Hidanratna, 2018

International

• Hirkani Foundation: World Book of Records, London, 2020