Deepa Willingham, our amazing Passport Club of the Central Coast member, just received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rotary Club of Calcutta Metropolitan.
In 2018, she also received the United Nations Association (UNA) Peace Prize for her wonderful work achieving demonstrable and measurable progress in creating peace in the world, advancing the cause of human rights internationally, and advancing the progress of developing nations.
Deepa is the founder and chair of PACE Universal, a non-profit committed to ending trafficking and uplifting communities through the education of girls and women living in extreme poverty. She opened her first environmentally sustainable school for more than 200 girls ranging from nursery to 12th grade at the Piyali Learning Center, a community 40 miles from native Kolkata in India.
Warm congratulations to her. We are very proud of her!