Prakash Amte

Prakash Baba Amte is a social worker from Maharashtra, India. Amte and his wife, Mandakini Amte, were awarded the Magsaysay Award for 'Community Leadership' in 2008 for their philanthropic work in the form of the Lok Biradari Prakalp amongst the Madia Gonds in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra and the neighbouring states of Telangana and Madhya Pradesh. In November 2019 he was awarded with the ICMR Lifetime Achievement Award by Bill Gates.

Early life Prakash Amte is the second son He lived and worked there for almost twenty years performing emergency surgical procedures without electricity. The project transformed into a hospital, Lok Biradari Prakalp Davakhana, a residential school, Lok Biradari Prakalp Ashram Shala, and an orphanage for injured wild animals, the Amte's Animal Park. The project provides health care to about 40,000 individuals annually. The Lok Biradari Prakalp Ashram School has over 600 students, residents and day scholars. Work of Amte's for Gond tribals and their philanthropic work in the form of the Lok Biradari Prakalp amongst the Madia Gonds in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra and the neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh also won them recognition.

Awards Amte has received many national and international awards, which include:

2019 - Lifetime Achievement Award from ICMR presented by Bill Gates. 2010 - Hamdan Award for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services. 2014 - Mother Teresa Awards for Social Justice. 2012 - Lokmanya Tilak Award - Jointly with his brother Vikas Amte 2009 - Godfrey Philips Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 - Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership - jointly with his wife Mandakini Amte Citation: "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." 2002 - Padma Shri, Government of India 1995 - The Principality of Monaco issued a postal stamp to honour Prakash and Mandakini Amte. 1984 - Adivasi Sevak Award, from Government of Maharashtra, India

In popular culture The biographical film Dr Prakash Baba Amte : The Real Hero starring Nana Patekar as Prakash Amte and Sonali Kulkarni as Mandakini Amte The film has been released in three languages, Hindi, Marathi and English.

Health In 2022, Dr. Prakash Amte was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia, a rare blood cancer, and has been receiving treatment at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune.