THE

REFORMERS
BY:
ARRYAKI SINGH
BIRTH : 18 JULY 1918 IN A VILLAGE NEAR
UMTATA IN THE TRANSKEI.
DEATH : 5 DECEMBER 2013 IN HOUGHTON
ESTATE, JOHANNESBURG BECAUSE OF A
PROLONGED RESPIRATORY INFECTION.
OCCUPATION : SOUTH AFRICAN
APARTHEID ACTIVIST ;
PHILANTHROPIST ; FIRST BLACK
PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA (1994-
1999)
EDUCATION : UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF FORT HARE AND
THE UNIVERSITY OF
WITWATERSRAND WHERE HE
STUDIED LAW.
HE WAS THE MEMBER OF
ANCYL WHERE HE OPPOSED
APARTHEID POLICIES OF THE
NATIONAL PARTY
NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA
 In 1948, he launched a In 1955, he was involved
campaign against South in drafting freedom
Africa’s past laws . charter.

On June 12 1964, he He spent 27 years in

was sentenced to life prison. His reputation
imprisonment narrowly grew steadily during
escaping death penalty. imprisonment.

From 1964-1982, he
was incarcerated at
Robin Island Prison.
 He consistently refused
Kept in Pollsmoor Prison
to compromise his
until 1998, after being
political position to
treated for tuberculosis .
obtain his freedom.

He became the
president of the
He was released on
country’s first
February 11, 1999.
multiethnic
Government. .

He resigned his post in He won the Nobel Peace

December 1997, Prize.
transferring leadership He published a book
to the party to his Long walk to Freedom in
successor Thabo Mbeki. 1994.

Born: 11 January 1954 (age
68 years), Vidisha
Work: Satyarthi, along with
Pakistani activist Malala
Yousufzai, was awarded he
Nobel Peace prize in 2014 for
their struggle for the right of all
children to education
Education: electrical engineering
Samrat Ashok Technological Insti
tute
, Barkatullah University
In 1980, he gave up his career as
a teacher & became secretary
general for the Bonded Labour
Liberation Front.
He also founded the Bachpan
Bachao Andolan
KAILASH SATYARTHI
He has also been involved with the
Global March Against Child Labor
and its international advocacy body.
He has also had a role in linking the
movement against child labour with
efforts for achieving "Education for
All".
He has also served as the President
of the Global Campaign for
Education, from its inception in
1999 to 2011.
He has also been a member of
'UNESCO'. He helped organize the
'Global Campaign Against Child
Labour' in more than 100 countries.
 She is a student and
Born: 12 July 1997
education activist
in Mingora, Pakistan
from Pakistan.

In 2009, she wrote a

She fights for
blog under a
women’s rights and
pseudonym for the
education.
BBC.

Her pseudonym was

Gul Makai telling
about her life under
Taliban rule .
 On October 2012, she She was taken to Queen
was shot in the head and Elizabeth Medical Center
neck by Taliban gunmen in Birminghan, the United
while returning home on Kingdom ; where she had
a school bus. recovered.

In 2011, at the age of 14,

She won Pakistan’s first
she was nominated for
National Youth Peace
the International
Prize.
Children’s Peace prize.

She is now a symbol for

education and peace in
the whole world.
 Born: 19 August 1951 in Education: Electrical
Shiggaon Engineering

She is a social worker and

Vision: Each school should
author. She is the
have a library and therefore
chairperson of Infosys
she made 50,000 libraries
Foundation and member of
and wrote approximately 92
public health care initiatives
books.
of Gates Foundation

She achieved a Silver Medal

from Chief Minister of
Karnataka for securing
highest marks in B.E of all
universities of Karnataka.
SUDHA MURTY
 She has handled national
disasters like tsunami in Tamil
Nadu and Andaman-
earthquake, Kutch- Gujarat,
hurricane and flood in Orissa.
She has worked almost for a
decade to change the lives of
children in the heart of rural
Karnataka by giving them
access to food and education.

She was awarded the Padma

Murty is best known for her
Shri, the fourth highest civilian
philanthropy and her
award in India, for social work
contribution to literature in
by the Government of India in
Kannada and English.
2006

Be dependent upon yourself

and know that courage has to
be born within you. It takes
time but you
have to work for it.
- Sudha Murthy
THANK
YOU