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A mitabh Shah: A Yale MBA's Inspirational Story from Wall- Street to the Real Streets of India

Amitabh is announced the recipient of one of the highest awards officially recognized by US House of Representatives and Senate - International Ellis Island Award at Statue of Liberty in May 2019. Previous winners have been Bill Clinton, George Bush, Muhammad Ali, Rosa Parks, Richard Nixon, Lee Iococa, Mrs Indra Nooyi, Malala amongst other legends! He was the 2015 Winner of the Prince's Prize for Innovative Philanthropy, conferred by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco wherein Jack Ma of Alibaba Group was a semi-ﬁnalist. In 2018, he was conferred the title of Sri Lankan Peace Ambassador by Center of Peace Studies. He was the Executive President of Times of India Foundation (Largest English Selling Daily Globally). He is a celebrated inspirational speaker on kindness, Gratitude and the Power of self –belief and has been winning hearts with his presence at Ted Talks, Yale, Wharton, YPO/WPO Forums, United Way’s Million Dollar Roundtable, amongst others. He is the 2019 - Iconic Youth Award recipient by Rotary International for mobilizing youthful energy & bringing lasting change in education institutions. Amitabh is on Advisory Board of Vedanta Foundation’s Nand Ghar which are built with state-of-the-art infrastructure which is fire resistant, dump resistant, Earth quake resistant and equipped with solar power systems for electricity. Nand Ghar work to empower education and health of 3-6 years of kids and vocational skill of their mothers. $750M have to be deployed by 2020 for Nand Ghar and will impact 4M community members. Yuva Unstoppable also won coveted IBM Impact award for 2017 to improve their social media and corporate communications. Having transformed sanitation, environment, education, digital literacy in 1000 less privileged schools now, Amitabh is not going to stop till he transforms 10,000 schools and 5M kids by 2025 for the less privileged and provide better hope & dignity to millions.

Amitabh Shah launched Yuva Unstoppable in 2005, at a mere age of 23. After his MBA from Yale, he declined a JPMorgan Wall Street oﬀer to work on the Real Streets of India. He decided to launch this volunteer movement after he discovered the immense suﬀering experienced by his elderly 82 year old nanny, Kamlaben, when she was abandoned and abused by her son. He gathered friends and began volunteering at homes for the elderly, slums and orphanages. Amitabh truly believes in what Gandhi said – Be the change you wish to see in the world. There was serious resistance for the ﬁrst year from his friends and family as they thought he was losing his mind, why starts serving others so early? Amitabh did not give up and in fact his family is his biggest cheerleader now.

Today, Yuva Unstoppable is India's premier nonprofit which benefits over 5,00,000 underprivileged children across 40 cities of India. It partners with 75 top institutes (UNICEF, Google, United Way, KPMG, Deloitte, IBM, Coke, Reliance, Adani, etc) and have transformed over 1000 government schools with better toilets, improved drinking water, scholarships, digital literacy, behavior change amongst others. In the past, Prime Minister of India Sh. Narendra Modiji, Late Pres. APJ Kalam, Superstar Akshay Kumar and Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, Award winning Directors Rakeysh Mehrta and R. Balki; Cricketers VVS LAxman and Sir Ian Botham; Global legends like Author Jeffrey Archer and Paul Polman (Global CEO Uniliver) have participated in Yuva initiatives. Actor Ashton Kutcher's A-Plus Media, MFF and Chicken Soup for the Soul made a 4 min short ﬁlm around how Yuva empowers girls across India by improving toilets and education facilities in schools. It was premiered at the Yale CEO Summit - 2017 in NYC with CEOs of Iconic companies like Merck, Wells Fargo, Dunkin Donuts, Panera Bread, IBM, amongst others. Amitabh believes in “Gratitude, Self-Belief and Compassion the 3 pillars. Let’s invoke those in all and the world will be a better place.”