“Compassion is not just a feeling, it’s a Responsibility!” This sense of responsibility rendered through humanitarian service can give dignity to broken and forgotten people through love and support, said Padma Vibhushan Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, while speaking at the ILC-I Awards 2024 ceremony in Pune, about Sister Lucy Kurien, Founder of Maher and the National winner of the Anjani Mashelkar Inspiration Award 2024.
International Longevity Centre-India (ILC-I), which works for Productive, Qualitative, Active, Healthy and Participatory Ageing, held its ILC-I Annual Awards 2024 on the 5th of December, at the Auditorium Medical College, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Katraj campus, to felicitate and award the senior citizens’ organizations and senior citizens, who have done commendable work, a journalist for promoting qualitative journalism in Ageing and a woman over the age of 60 years for overcoming life’s challenges and serving as an icon of inspiration!