<span style="color: #000000;">Fairooz Faizah Beether of Bangladesh has been chosen for the 2021 Changemaker Award for her work promoting&nbsp; good health and well-being by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Award celebrates an individual who has inspired change using personal experience or from a position of leadership.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''Fairooz Faizah is co-founder of Moner School&nbsp; which is an anonymous online platform active in the field of mental health. It works with youth to educate them about the importance of mental health care through training, workshops, and a 24/7 online mental health first aid service in Bangladesh.<br />''<br />''The Changemaker Award is part of the Goalkeepers Global Goals award instituted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate progress towards attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''Former United Nations under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, has been chosen as the winner of the 2021 Global Goalkeeper Award for her 'unwavering global leadership on gender equality and continued advocacy to address the COVID pandemic's disproportionate impact on women and girls'.<br />''<br />''The Goalkeepers is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's campaign to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) announced by the UN in 2015 to achieve the objectives of ending poverty, fighting inequality and injustice and fixing climate change.&nbsp;</span>
News On AIR | September 22, 2021 1:57 PM
Bangladeshi Fairooz Faizah Beether gets 2021 Changemaker Award