Angela Gomes

Angela Gomes

Angela Gomes is a social worker from Bangladesh. She won the Magsaysay Award in 1999 for community leadership. She leads the organization "Bachte Shekha" (Learning to Live) in the Jessore region of the country. It teaches rural women a vast range of income-generating skills, including handicrafts, raising crops, poultry and livestock, fish farming, beekeeping and silk making. Her organization benefits some 20,000 women in at least 400 villages.

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