Mandakini Amte

{{Short description|Indian doctor and social worker}} {{notability|Biographies|date=September 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Use Indian English|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Mandakini Amte | birth_name = Mandakini Deshpande | image = Mandakini Amte and Prakesh Amte.jpg | image_size = | caption = Mandakini Amte and [[Prakash Amte]] during the interactive session at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT college]]. | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Social worker | education = [[MBBS]]<br> Post-graduate Diploma in Anesthesia | spouse = [[Prakash Amte]] | children = 3 | website = [https://www.lokbiradariprakalp.org/ www.lokbiradariprakalp.org] [https://www.lbphemalkasa.org.in www.lbphemalkasa.org.in] | known_for = [[Lok Biradari Prakalp]] | years_active = 1973 - present | alma_mater = [[Government Medical College (Nagpur)]] | parents = | awards = [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] 2008 }} '''Mandakini Amte''' popularly known as '''Manda Amte''' is a medical doctor and social worker from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]].<ref name="Mandakini Reference1">{{cite news |last1=Pandey |first1=Kirti |title=Family tree of Baba Amte: Sons Prakash and Vikas Amte; who was Sheetal Amte and her role at Anandwan |url=https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/family-tree-of-baba-amte-sons-prakash-and-vikas-amte-who-was-sheetal-amte-and-her-role-at-anandwan/689042 |access-date=5 March 2021 |publisher=www.timesnownews.com |date=1 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref> She along with her husband, Prakash Amte were awarded the [[Magsaysay Award]] for 'Community Leadership'<ref name=Magsaysay>[http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationAmtes.html Citation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827114435/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationAmtes.html |date=27 August 2008 }} from the [http://www.rmaf.org.ph/index.php website of Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation]</ref> in 2008 for their [[philanthropy|philanthropic]] work in the form of the [[Lok Biradari Prakalp]] amongst the [[Madia Gond]]s in [[Gadchiroli]] district of [[Maharashtra]] and the neighbouring states of [[Andhra Pradesh]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]].<ref name="Mandakini Reference1" /> She is the daughter-in-law of [[Baba Amte]].<ref name="Mandakini Reference1" /><ref>{{cite web|title=My father was against our marriage|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/inner-spaces-my-father-was-against-our-marriage-1183819|website=dnaindia.com|publisher=Diligent Media Corporation Ltd.|accessdate=29 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Prakash & Mandakini Amte|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/prakash-mandakini-amte/238254|website=outlookindia.com|publisher=Outlook: The Web Edition|accessdate=29 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Event at the Hilt – Meet the Real Heroes: Doctor Prakash Amte and Doctor Manda Amte|url=https://chandlersfordtoday.co.uk/event-at-the-hilt-meet-the-real-heroes-dr-prakash-amte-and-dr-manda-amte/|website=chandlersfordtoday.co.uk/|date=6 September 2015 |publisher=Chandler's Ford Today|accessdate=4 March 2016}}</ref>

==Early life, education and career== Amte was born as '''Mandakini Deshpande'''. She had completed her MBBS from Nagpur<ref name="Mandakini Reference1" /> and later decided to do her post-graduation in [[Anesthesia]] in Government Medical College(GMC), Nagpur.<ref name="Mandakini Reference1" /> Prakash, her future husband, was a surgeon and that's how they met. They worked together in the same operation theatre.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

Her father was opposed to her marriage with Prakash Amte as he feared that it meant she would have to live among lepers, which was a taboo then.<ref name="Mandakini Reference1" /><ref>{{cite web|title=My father was against our marriage|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/inner-spaces-my-father-was-against-our-marriage-1183819|website=dnaindia.com|publisher=Diligent Media Corporation Ltd.|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>

==Magsaysay award== Amte & her husband were jointly awarded the [[Magsaysay]] Award for community leadership in 2008,<ref name="Mandakini Reference1" /> her citation reads as follows:<ref>{{cite web |title=Amte, Prakash {{!}} CITATION |url= http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/profile/147 |website= rmaf.org.ph |publisher=© Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation |accessdate=27 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Magsaysay award for Amte couple|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/magsaysay-award-for-amte-couple/story-cxfWev1ucGw5lbofkkYRGJ.html|website=hindustantimes.com|date=31 July 2008 |publisher=HT Media Limited|accessdate=4 March 2016}}</ref> {{Quote box|width=80%|bgcolor=#DEE0EB|fontsize=120%|align =center|"In electing Prakash Amte and Mandakini Amte to receive the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, the board of trustees recognizes their enhancing the capacity of the Madia Gonds to adapt positively in today's India, through healing and teaching and other compassionate interventions.|}}

==Commemorative stamp== The [[Principality of Monaco]] brought out a postage stamp in honour of the life and work of Prakash Mandakini in 1995 - just as they had done for [[Albert Schweitzer]] in 1955. This was only the second time that the Kingdom of Monaco brought out a stamp to honour a foreigner for their humanitarian work.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

A [[French people|French]] couple, Guy and Greet Barthelemy, who had worked with Schweitzer in the early fifties, visited the project in 1992. They were moved to see the similarity of conditions at Hemalkasa and those in [[Africa]] where Schweitzer worked. This French couple went back and appealed to [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco|Prince Rainier III]] of Monaco to publish a postal stamp to honour the Amtes, which was done in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Prakash and Dr. Mrs. Mandakini Amte - International Awards - Hamdan Award for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services - 2009-2010|url=http://hmaward.org.ae/profile.php?id=186|website=hmaward.org.ae/|publisher=Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences|accessdate=14 March 2016|archive-date=29 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629140152/http://hmaward.org.ae/profile.php?id=186|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=VILLAGES SANS FRONTIERES - Hemalkasa - Lok Biradari Prakalp (Fraternité entre les peuples)|url=http://vsf64.free.fr/pages/hemalkasa.html|website=vsf64.free.fr/|publisher=VILLAGES SANS FRONTIERES c/o LAZE - Quartier Lasbordes 64270 SALIES-DE-BEARN|accessdate=14 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116230221/http://vsf64.free.fr/pages/hemalkasa.html|archive-date=16 November 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

{{Ramon Magsaysay Award Winners}}

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