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A profile of courage (1443 words) |
 | The citation describes Yasoda as "a picture of courage and fortitude" and says that she is one of the 60 leaders of the Rural Women's Front (RWF), a wing of the Centre for Rural Women's Education for Liberation (CRWEL), a voluntary organisation. |
| Yasoda was nominated for the award by HEKS India, a Switzerland-based organisation that has been supporting the development initiatives of the CRWEL for the past nine years through its coordination office in Chennai. |
| Yasoda was convinced that education was the key to the empowerment of women and that the greatest impediment to ensuring education was their menfolk's addiction to liquor. |
| The Hindu : Report raises doubts about vagrant woman's claim over Chinnu (619 words) |
| Restoring the child to Yasoda did not seem appropriate in view of circumstances under which she reached the cradle and the fact that she bore the marks of both abuse and neglect, the report said. |
| Yasoda had claimed that the child was born at her house in 1998 at Maruvapally, Penakonda P.O. in Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh. |
| Regarding the burn injuries found on the child, Yasoda claimed that they had been caused by an accident that occurred when the child was playing with a hot iron in a neighbour's house at Kondapuram, Anantapur. |
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