Press club achievers' award to four women

Four young women, who have been serving people deprived of opportunities living inrural areas to get educated, have been chosen for Mangaluru Press Club Awards for year 2016-17 for their achievement in the field.
The awardees are Renita and Shamitha from the city and Fauzia and Sameera from Kadaba in the district.
The awards will be presented by Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai at a function to be held here on December 18 on the occasion of press club day.
The awards comprise a cash prize of Rs 10,001, citation andmemento, a press club release said here.

Renita and Shamitha, after obtaining degrees from a college in Mangalore University in 1995, have been running an educational institution that has classes from LKG to PU class, for providing education to the deprived classes.
Fauzia and Sameera from Kadaba in Puttur taluk in DK district, who completed their post-graduate education from Mangalore University in 2012, took a room on rent in a building at Kadaba, 70 km from the district headquarters, for serving students who had to leave schools midway in SSLC and PU stages, the release said.