Poonam Ahluwalia of Lexington, MA passed away early Monday morning at her home. She was 62 and was suffering from breast cancer for the past seven years.
Poonam Ahluwalia is survived by her husband Mohinder, son Saatvik and daughter-in-law, and daughter Tara.
A beloved member of the Indian American community, she will for ever be remembered for her smile, her enthusiasm for life and her support for those in need.
Poonam was named the 2013 INDIA New England Woman of the Year.
At Education Development Center she founded Youth Employment Summit (YES) – which was a global decade campaign of action from 2002 – 2012. For this she and her team organized global youth employment summits in Egypt 2002, Mexico 2004, Kenya 2006, Azerbaijan 2008 and Sweden 2010. At each Summit over 2000 people attended from 100 plus countries. Through her innovative, low-touch, high impact approach to development there have been over 400 projects initiated and implemented by young people throughout the world.
Here is her interview with Lokvani
Lokvani offers out condolences to the family. She will be sorely missed.
Om Shanti
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