THE LAST GIRL AWARDS EVE, OCT 10, 2021

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ON THE EVE OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL,
 please join us for 
 a virtual conversation between ASHLEY JUDD and CATHARINE MACKINNON
to celebrate
The Last Girl Awards
honoring champions against sex-trafficking
AMBASSADOR SWANEE HUNT, PROF.CATHARINE MACKINNON, SURVIVOR AUTHOR, GRIZELDA GROOTBOOM, INDAY FOUNDER BASU RATNAM, CHEF FLOYD CARDOZ
 

OCTOBER 10, 7 PM -8.30 EDT, 4-5.30 PM PDT
(FB live link available in India)
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VIP Presenters: Gloria Steinem, Ashley Judd, Rosanna Arquette,Vinita Belani,Mona Sinha, Nandana Sen

 AWARDS PRESENTED

        1. The Last Girl Lifetime Leadership Award:  Ambassador Swanee Hunt
        2. The Last Girl Lifetime Cultural Change Award: Prof. Catharine MacKinnon
        3. The Last Girl Champion Award : Chef Floyd Cardoz (posthumus)
        4. The Last Girl Corporate Leadership Award: Basu Ratnam
        5. The Last Girl Changemaker Award: Grizelda Grootboom

       

       

       

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Funds raised will provide food and hygiene items to women and
children in India, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
$ 100 =100 meals + hygiene items.

Apne Aap’s 1MillionMeals food drive has provided more than 15 million meals to half a million women and children since the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Read more: Meet the woman providing 1 million meals to victims of sex trafficking amid coronavirus

THE LAST GIRL AWARDS

Every year, Apne Aap honors global leaders who have championed the cause of the most vulnerable girls at risk to sex-trafficking with The Last Girl Abolitionist Award. 

The Last Girl is the most vulnerable of human beings. She is the 12-year old in a brothel in India or the 19-year old shivering at a street corner in US. She is a poor, female, teenager, most often from an oppressed caste, race, religion or ethnicity. Her multiple marginalizations cut her off from food, housing, legal protection and sustainable and dignified livelihoods. She becomes the easiest prey to traffickers.

The global leaders we select are those who apply their resources-time, money, skills and networks-to stand by The Last Girl with courage, passion and commitment. 

Past honorees have included Gloria Steinem, Cheryl Saban, Kaitlin Bogyay, Vikas Khanna, Team Priya and the Lost Girls, T Ortiz Pettigrew, Freida Pinto, Tabrez Noorani, Richa Chadda, Demi Moore,Mrunal Thakur and David Womark, Simone Monasebian, Nandana Sen, Zoe Blue Sidel, Rosanna Arquette, Sophia Nesamoney, Sybil Robson Orr, S. Mona Sinha, Sandra Woworuntu, Dorchen Leidholdt, Ashley Judd, Fisk Johnson.

The awards function is accompanied with fundraising to benefit The Last Girl in India. The event attracts hundreds of people for a fun and meaningful evening in venues like the United Nations and New York Palace Hotel. Philanthropists, Hollywood actors, Corporate leaders, Diplomats, UN delegates, activists, students, writers and artists gather in support of Apne Aap’s mission to create a world in which no girl or woman is bought or sold.

Sponsorship Deck

For sponsorship enquiries email Deb at development@apneaap.org

EVENT LEADERS

 

CHAIRS

Gloria Steinem, Rosanna Arquette and Ashley Judd

 

HOST COMMITTEE

Gloria Steinem, Ruchira Gupta, Ashley Judd, Vinita Belani, Mona Sinha, Elizabeth Sackler, Abigail Disney, Tara Peters, Joung Hoon Lee, Francesca Lancilotti, Neha Vashi and Neel kulkarni, Priyanka Chirimar, Rosanna Arquette, Sybil Orr, Dorchen Leidholdt & Nandana Sen

Past Benefit Highlights

The Last Girl 2019 honoree,Rosanna Arquette and Ruchira Gupta at The Last Girl Award and Benefit 2019

 

Gloria Steinem with 2019 Abolitionist Honoree , Fisk Johnson

 

Film screening of Love Sonia on the International Day of the Girl, Benefit 2018

An Evening to Honor Abolitionist, Mona Sinha, with Gloria Steinem, The Last Girl Award Benefit 2017

Testimonials

“The dream is to live in a world in which no human is being bought or sold. That’s what the women and girls of Apne Aap stand for! “

– Ashley Judd, Human Rights activist and Actress, Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA

“Because it…aims to strengthen the power of women is empowerment and I believe it is precisely what women need today, not only in Indian society, in other companies too.”

– France Minister for Women’s Rights Najat Vallaud–Belkacem

“Apne Aap has been at the forefront on this long fight against the social evil of human trafficking in India. I am proud to know Ruchira and her relentless efforts towards fighting against sex trafficking and intergenerational prostitution” 

-Demi Moore, Film Maker and Actress

The Last Girl Changemaker Award: Grizelda Grootboom