Gandhi Global Family

Gandhi Global Family is a global Gandhian Movement, federation of Gandhian institutions worldwide, founded to propagate ideology of Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave and Nirmala Deshpande and to develop friendship at people’s level and established people to people contact amongst different countries of the world.

Organization structure

GGF has a president and Vice President. Currently Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad is president and Padmashri S.P. Varma is Vice President of GGF.^[1]

Institutionalized Gandhi Medals

Institutionalized Gandhi Doot Medal for students & Gandhi Seva Medal^[2] for the grass root workers who are working for the rural communities and have dedicated their life to the Gandhian way of living and created awareness among youth & rural community.
A team of Young Gandhian visited UK
Decorated Indian Army and Indian Air force Chiefs with “Mahatma Gandhi Award” on 30 January 2006 at Jammu. The awards were presented by Hon’ble Chief Minister, Jenab Ghulam Nabi Azad for their commendable work during the earth – quake calamity (2005) in J&K State.
A team of GGF Young Gandhian got a chance to interact with Gandhi Global Family President Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad.The young team was delighted to meet their mentor on the occasion of Eid-Ul_Fitr in New Delhi
Other esteemed dignitaries like His Holiness Dalai Lama, then President of India Shri K R Narayanan,Monk Ven Phrarajabhavanavisudh, UPA Chairperson & President of INC Smt Sonia Gandhi, Speaker Lok Sabha Smt Meira Kumar, Director UNIC Mrs Kiran Mehra Kerpelman, YHAI President Shri Harish Saxena .^[2] Head of Nirankari Mission Baba Hardev Singh Ji 2013 are decorated with this medal.

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