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	==Awards and recognitions==		==Awards and recognitions==
	Reddy is a recipient of Mahila Sadhaki Award of the Guild of Women Achievers in 1997.<ref name="Bay Area Desi" /> A recipient of the Jean Harris Award from Rotary International<ref name="Rotary">{{cite web \| url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/social-worker-professor-to-be-felicitated/article2596504.ece \| title=Rotary \| newspaper=The Hindu \| date=4 November 2011 \| access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref> and the Woman Achiever Award from the Ladies Circle India, she was declared as the ''Person of the Year'' by the ''Namma Bengaluru Foundation'' in ~~2010–11~~.<ref name="Deccan Herald">{{cite web \| url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/136413/content/212669/archives.php \| title=Deccan Herald \| newspaper=Deccan Herald \| date=9 February 2011 \| access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref~~><ref name="Bay Area Desi" /~~> The same year, in 2011, Reddy received the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Shri" />		Reddy is a recipient of Mahila Sadhaki Award of the Guild of Women Achievers in 1997.<ref name="Bay Area Desi" /> A recipient of the Jean Harris Award from Rotary International<ref name="Rotary">{{cite web \| url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/social-worker-professor-to-be-felicitated/article2596504.ece \| title=Rotary \| newspaper=The Hindu \| date=4 November 2011 \| access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref> and the Woman Achiever Award from the Ladies Circle India, she was declared as the ''Person of the Year'' by the ''Namma Bengaluru Foundation'' in 2010-11.<ref name="Bay Area Desi" /><ref name="Deccan Herald">{{cite web \| url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/136413/content/212669/archives.php \| title=Deccan Herald \| newspaper=Deccan Herald \| date=9 February 2011 \| access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref> The same year, in 2011, Reddy received the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Shri" />

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	==Awards and recognitions==		==Awards and recognitions==
	Reddy is a recipient of Mahila Sadhaki Award of the Guild of Women Achievers in 1997.<ref name="Bay Area Desi" /> A recipient of the Jean Harris Award from Rotary International<ref name="Rotary">{{cite web \| url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/social-worker-professor-to-be-felicitated/article2596504.ece \| title=Rotary \| newspaper=The Hindu \| date=4 November 2011 \| access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref> and the Woman Achiever Award from the Ladies Circle India, she was declared as the ''Person of the Year'' by the ''Namma Bengaluru Foundation'' in ~~2010-11~~.<ref name="Deccan Herald">{{cite web \| url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/136413/content/212669/archives.php \| title=Deccan Herald \| newspaper=Deccan Herald \| date=9 February 2011 \| access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="Bay Area Desi" /> The same year, in 2011, Reddy received the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Shri" />		Reddy is a recipient of Mahila Sadhaki Award of the Guild of Women Achievers in 1997.<ref name="Bay Area Desi" /> A recipient of the Jean Harris Award from Rotary International<ref name="Rotary">{{cite web \| url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/social-worker-professor-to-be-felicitated/article2596504.ece \| title=Rotary \| newspaper=The Hindu \| date=4 November 2011 \| access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref> and the Woman Achiever Award from the Ladies Circle India, she was declared as the ''Person of the Year'' by the ''Namma Bengaluru Foundation'' in 2010–11.<ref name="Deccan Herald">{{cite web \| url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/136413/content/212669/archives.php \| title=Deccan Herald \| newspaper=Deccan Herald \| date=9 February 2011 \| access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="Bay Area Desi" /> The same year, in 2011, Reddy received the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Shri" />

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'''Anita Reddy''' is an Indian social worker from [[Karnataka]] and the founder of ''Association for Voluntary Action and Services'' (AVAS),<ref name="Association for Voluntary Action and Service report">{{cite web | url=http://www.dwarakaonline.com/Html/Avas.htm | title=Association for Voluntary Action and Service report | publisher=Association for Voluntary Action and Service | date=2014 | access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="Story Pick">{{cite web | url=http://www.storypick.com/devoted-28-years-life-urban-poor-fuelling-change-determination-faith/ | title=Presentation by Anita Reddy | publisher=Story Pick | work=Video | date=2014 | access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref> known for her services for the rehabilitation and upliftment of the slum dwellers in [[Karnataka]] and [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref name="Chai with Manjula">{{cite web | url=http://www.chaiwithmanjula.com/media/AnitaReddy.html | title=Chai with Manjula | publisher=Chai with Manjula | date=June 2010 | access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref> She is the managing trustee of DWARAKA and DRIK Foundations, working for children's education and women's livelihoods. The Government of India honored Anita Reddy in 2011, with the fourth highest civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2014 |access-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>

==Biography==
{{quotebox|align = left|width=21em|''I had to face the land mafia and persons with vested interests. Once, I was even chased by a mob of around 300 people. I had to learn to conduct meetings with slum dwellers in graveyards,'' says Reddy, about her early experiences in slums of Bengaluru.<ref name="Following a passion from within">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/following-a-passion-from-within/article2483610.ece | title=Following a passion from within | newspaper=The Hindu | date=25 September 2011 | access-date=29 December 2014}}</ref>}}
Reddy was born in [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]] in a wealthy family of Ranjini Reddy and Dwaraknath Reddy, an industrialist and philanthropist.<ref name="The Hindu">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/following-a-passion-from-within/article2483610.ece | title=The Hindu | newspaper=The Hindu | date=25 September 2011 | access-date=20 November 2014 | author=Chitra Ramani}}</ref> Her schooling was at the [[Rishi Valley School]] in [[Andhra Pradesh]] and college in WCC, after which she went to California, USA. Later she married her childhood friend, Pratap Reddy, the son of the first Chief Minister of Karnataka, [[K. Chengalaraya Reddy]].<ref name="The Hindu" />

Her social career started in the late 1970s when she started working with slum residents. Soon, she founded the ''Association for Voluntary Action and Services'' (AVAS) in 1980.<ref name="Chai with Manjula" /> Her first initiative was to contribute to the living conditions in the slums by remodeling the housing facilities.<ref name="The Hindu" /> Reddy's activities gathered momentum when her father founded the ''Dwarakanath Reddy Ramanarpanam Trust'' (DRRT) in 1996,<ref name="Association for Voluntary Action and Service report" /><ref name="Story Pick" /> bestowed his wealth to the trust and asked Reddy to manage it.<ref name="Chai with Manjula" /> With added resources, Reddy worked for the empowerment of the poor people and establishment of better facilities in the slums.<ref name="The Hindu" />

Another achievement credited to Reddy is the formation of the ''Development of Weavers and Rural Artisans in Kalamkari Art'' (DWARAKA), a society for the artisans. The society aims to revive the dying art form of [[Kalamkari]] and provide the artisans a base for storing and marketing their products.<ref name="The Hindu" /> The next project Reddy plans for is the setting up of a leadership development institute, under the ''Dwarakanath Reddy Institutes for Knowledge'' (DRIK), for which she has set up a 40-acre piece of land at [[Chikballapur]] called the DRIK VIVEKA campus. The institute promotes theatre, music, sports, art and craft and Gandhian studies, for the poor under the cultural empowerment network called DRIK-Jeevanotsava.<ref name="The Hindu" /><ref name="Kavitha">{{cite web | url=http://kavithasrinivasablog.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/roti-kapada-aur-makaan/ | title=Kavitha | publisher=Kavitha | date=2014 | access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref>

Reddy represented the [[Government of India]] at the [[Habitat II]], the [[United Nations]] Human Settlements Conference in Istanbul, Turkey held from 3 to 14 June 1996<ref name="Chai with Manjula" /> and the UN Conference held in Kenya as a part of the ''Year Of The Shelterless''.<ref name="Bay Area Desi" /> She sat on the ''Housing Task Force'' set up by the [[Government of Karnataka]] for submitting a report on the housing for the urban poor<ref name="Bay Area Desi">{{cite web | url=http://www.ipv6.fpgacentral.com/event/2011june/reception-meet-padma-shri-awardee-anita-milpitas | title=Bay Area Desi | publisher=Bay Area Desi | date=2011 | access-date=20 November 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129054326/http://www.ipv6.fpgacentral.com/event/2011june/reception-meet-padma-shri-awardee-anita-milpitas | archive-date=29 November 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and was a member of the ''Karnataka Slum Clearance Board''. She also holds the positions of the Managing Trustee of the Ranjini Dwaraknath Reddy Trust (RDRT)<ref name="Kavitha" /> and the trustee of the Karnataka chapter of [[Sarvodaya]].<ref name="Bay Area Desi" /><ref name="Interview">{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvNSfbX_P4s | title=Interview | publisher=YouTube | date=10 April 2012 | access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref>

Reddy also promotes ''Jeevanotsav'', a cultural platform and the ''K. C. Reddy Swim Centre'' in Bengaluru which has produced national level swimmers such as [[Nisha Millet]] and Meghana Narayanan,<ref name="Swim Gala">{{cite web | url=http://www.swimgala.com/profiles/clubs/kcreddy.asp | title=Swim Gala | publisher=Swim Gala | date=2014 | access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref> She serves as the Organizing Secretary of ''Women’s Voice'' and as the secretary of the ''State Level Slum Dwellers Federation'' (KKNSS).<ref name="Bay Area Desi" /> She also organizes School based campaigns and dialogues.<ref name="Aditi">{{cite web | url=http://www.aditi.edu.in/our-difference/for-community/ | title=Aditi | publisher=Aditi | date=2014 | access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref>

In her current role, she is steering the idea of establishing ARC - Arts, Rights and Communities, first-ever learning center that would enhance indigenous traditions and heritage knowledge in poor children in many communities including Government schools. It would enable youth to discover the inherent strengths of the area they live in and the wealth of history relevant for the regions development.

==Awards and recognitions==
Reddy is a recipient of Mahila Sadhaki Award of the Guild of Women Achievers in 1997.<ref name="Bay Area Desi" /> A recipient of the Jean Harris Award from Rotary International<ref name="Rotary">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/social-worker-professor-to-be-felicitated/article2596504.ece | title=Rotary | newspaper=The Hindu | date=4 November 2011 | access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref> and the Woman Achiever Award from the Ladies Circle India, she was declared as the ''Person of the Year'' by the ''Namma Bengaluru Foundation'' in 2010-11.<ref name="Deccan Herald">{{cite web | url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/136413/content/212669/archives.php | title=Deccan Herald | newspaper=Deccan Herald | date=9 February 2011 | access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="Bay Area Desi" /> The same year, in 2011, Reddy received the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Shri" />

==See also==
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.storypick.com/devoted-28-years-life-urban-poor-fuelling-change-determination-faith/ | title=Presentation by Anita Reddy | publisher=Story Pick | work=Video | date=2014 | access-date=20 November 2014}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.chaiwithmanjula.com/media/AnitaReddy.html | title=Chai with Manjula | publisher=Chai with Manjula | date=June 2010 | access-date=20 November 2014}}

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