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Ravi Chopra

Ravi Chopra, is a development leader known for his leadership, innovative thinking, macro vision, and practical idealism. Ravi strongly believes that the learning received from the Ship for Youth programs must be channelized to enhance leadership skills for serving the community.Ravi’s leadership successfully contributed towards promoting the India-Japan friendly relations and people to people exchanges since the last three decades.

He started at a very young age to work with the children living in the urban slums and rural villages by teaching them photography to impart them a job-oriented skill. He worked with runaway children living on New Delhi Railway platform, with mentally challenged and handicapped children in institutions like Anandvan and with village children living in remote hilly areas. His passion to work with children took him to visit slums in Delhi where he found children surrounding him wherever he went to get a glimpse of the world around them through his camera.

Ravi Chopra has also been promoting Global Peace, harmony, and youth leadership by holding lectures in collaboration with Japanese universities, Japanese Government institutions, and NPOs in Japan. He is widely regarded as the promoter of the India-Japan relationship.

In November 2022, The Government of Japan officially conferred the decoration of the 'Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays' award to Ravi Chopra in recognition of his contribution to promoting friendship and mutual understanding between Japan and India through people-to-people exchanges. This decoration has been bestowed by the Japanese government awarded in the name of the Emperor of Japan.