FAST Company Most Influential Person on the Internet
FAST Company is looking for the most influential person on the internet. The power of social media can be a social call to action... Let's have Prashanth, an 11 year old abused, abandoned and now sponsored child in India become that person. We can use his story to bring attention to the 138M homeless children in the world. Support Prashanth: http://fcinf.com/v/appe.
Encinitas, CA, July 26, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Pris Nelson and Ed Cohen lived in India from 2005 to 2009. They worked as senior leaders for a global technology company and on weekends they volunteered helping abandoned and orphaned children. Now, back in the states with their own consulting firm, Nelson Cohen Global Consulting (http://nelsoncohen.com) providing leadership development and corporate culture strategies, they continue to call attention to the 138M abandoned and orphaned children in the world today, one child at a time.
Their current effort is using social media to get a once abused and abandoned little boy in India on the cover of FAST Company. The FAST Company “Influence Project” is looking for the most influential person on the internet.
By clicking for Prashanth (http://fcinf.com/v/appe) his story can be told.
Born in a small village in south India, a precocious child, he often got in trouble. Believing the soul resides in the belly, the religious figure traced a circle around his belly button then up and down his skin creating horizontal and vertical lines with a fire hot iron to remove the demons. Prashanth burned his fingers while trying to stop them. Untreated, they folded over and fused, rendering them unusable.
Prashanth’s father died, his mother remarried; her new husband refused to raise him. He lived with his Grandmother who was too feeble and poor care for him. He wandered the streets, ending up at the orphanage where Nelson and Cohen were volunteering. According to Pris Nelson, “We found out most of these children grow up on the streets becoming beggars, drug addicts, prostitutes, or worse. Many do not survive to their 18th birthday.”
The unique Fast Company URL for Prashanth is http://fcinf.com/v/appe
“We took him to see a surgeon and he kindly offered his services,” shared Ed Cohen. “Scar tissue was removed, new skin grafted, and his fingers straightened by placing a pin in one and a splint on the other. Prashanth stayed with us for the next six weeks.” His fingers restored, he wiggled them; smile and said, “Thank you for my fingers.”
Nelson and Cohen sponsor Prashanth, now 11, at a Residential School. When they visit India, he stays with them. Nelson says, “Through his story, people will know there is a solution, one child at a time.”
The unique Fast Company URL for Prashanth is http://fcinf.com/v/appe
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Their current effort is using social media to get a once abused and abandoned little boy in India on the cover of FAST Company. The FAST Company “Influence Project” is looking for the most influential person on the internet.
By clicking for Prashanth (http://fcinf.com/v/appe) his story can be told.
Born in a small village in south India, a precocious child, he often got in trouble. Believing the soul resides in the belly, the religious figure traced a circle around his belly button then up and down his skin creating horizontal and vertical lines with a fire hot iron to remove the demons. Prashanth burned his fingers while trying to stop them. Untreated, they folded over and fused, rendering them unusable.
Prashanth’s father died, his mother remarried; her new husband refused to raise him. He lived with his Grandmother who was too feeble and poor care for him. He wandered the streets, ending up at the orphanage where Nelson and Cohen were volunteering. According to Pris Nelson, “We found out most of these children grow up on the streets becoming beggars, drug addicts, prostitutes, or worse. Many do not survive to their 18th birthday.”
The unique Fast Company URL for Prashanth is http://fcinf.com/v/appe
“We took him to see a surgeon and he kindly offered his services,” shared Ed Cohen. “Scar tissue was removed, new skin grafted, and his fingers straightened by placing a pin in one and a splint on the other. Prashanth stayed with us for the next six weeks.” His fingers restored, he wiggled them; smile and said, “Thank you for my fingers.”
Nelson and Cohen sponsor Prashanth, now 11, at a Residential School. When they visit India, he stays with them. Nelson says, “Through his story, people will know there is a solution, one child at a time.”
The unique Fast Company URL for Prashanth is http://fcinf.com/v/appe
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