The ‘Outstanding Social Worker Award’ for the year 2012, instituted by Kalakairali in memory of the late Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, has been given to Jose Maveli.
The award, honouring the noble work that Maveli is doing by saving a numberof children from the drudgeries of begging, child labour and street circus, was handed over by former minister Ramachandran Kadannappally at a function organised by Kalakairali at Kannur.