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Sri Lankans honoured by Ashoka Foundation

The Ashoka Foundation for social entrepreneurs (Washington) honoured three social entrepreneurs working in Sri Lanka with fellowships at a ceremony held in Mumbai, India on February 20.

Launching the Sri Lankan program in honour of Dr. Neelan Thiruchelvam, Ms. Carol Grodzins, Vice President of the Ashoka Foundation, said "Neelan was prominent not only in Asia but around the world as a glorious constitutional lawyer, a human rights advocate and a Parliamentarian."

She said that Neelan symbolised Ashoka Fellowship and entrepreneurship across all societies.

Ms. Grodzins said that Ashoka fellows are considered among the leading social entrepreneurs, first, "with a new innovative idea, a strategy to solve a big problem facing society and to move society forward, and second, they should have an impeccable ethical fibre."

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