DIPSITE HONOURED WITH
INTERNATIONAL DIANA AWARD
Arushi Madan, an eco-champ of Grade 12
from DPS Sharjah has been endowed
with the
“International Diana
Award”, which is a
prestigious honour that endeavours to appreciate and celebrate the work
which young people make to society - especially those who are young
ambassadors, young leaders, young humanitarians, fund raisers, eco-campaigners,
peer mentors, sports leaders, and those who inspire others as Diana,
Princess of Wales.
She scooped this award for her devotion to protect and conserve the
natural environment.
A Diana Award winner receives a prestigious national award and a
certificate signed by the British Prime
Minister,
Rt Hon David
Cameron MP, and a lapel pin or trophy. They also receive an honour to
attend events hosted by Prince Harry and William.
British
Council UAE Director Marc Jessel congratulated Arushi on this momentous
achievement.
On her splendid accomplishment, Arushi was invited to Indian Embassy,
Abu Dhabi by Ms Neeta Bhushan -Deputy Chief of Mission & Head of
Chancery, Indian Embassy and wife of Consul General Mr.Anurag Bhushan.
Ms.Bhushan appreciated Arushi’s work towards environment protection,
applauded her as role model for today’s youth and encouraged her to
continue working for such causes.
Arushi is active in her environment endeavours both within the school
and outside the school. Arushi is the President of youth community group
“Students for the Earth” .She has been conducting various environment
campaigns, event, activities and awareness sessions for various segments
of society like she did an awareness session exclusively for labourers
and one exclusively for women as she believes “If you educate a man, you
educate an individual but if you educate a woman, you educate two
generations”. She also set up a waste segregation system and Energy
saving system for her building. She believes in actions more than words
and works at grassroots level and sets examples for others to follow.
She has been a source of inspiration to many youngsters.
Arushi also won in 2013 prestigious UAE National award “Sheikh Hamdan
Award for distinguished student” , Outstanding Environment Student award
SEAA (Sharjah Environment Awareness Award) in 2014 , “Green Star UAE”
title and award in 2014 and
the best Environment Ambassador award by Tunza Eco-generation. Earlier
in Feb 2014, Arushi was invited at Seoul, South Korea as a
representative of UAE for Global Youth Eco Leadership Summit. Last week
she won Sharjah award for educational excellence.
This significant achievement
of hers
is hugely appreciated in media,
all across various national newspapers like “The National “ , “Emirates
24/7” , “The Gulf Today” and Indian regional language newspaper.
Below are the links where she is featured for this award:
http://www.thenational.ae/uae/environment/walking-in-dianas-footsteps
http://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/sharjah-girl-gets-green-with-dh40-table-2015-03-24-1.585163
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/ac2e66c9-1e27-49a7-bff3-89a287f47da8.aspx