Fonte/Source: Express Features 07 May 2009
Two transgenders from Chennai, Priya and Lalitha stood second and third in the Miss Koovagam 2009 contest held at Villupuram on Tuesday. Rekha from Madurai came first in the beauty contest organised by ARM, a non-profitable, non-governmental organisation working for the past 13 years in the field of STI/HIV/AIDS along with APAC,VHS-USAID. The idea behind the competition was to imbibe self esteem in transgenders and to encourage the community to create a platform to express their knowledge ,skills and talents in arts and culture.
More than 2000 transgenders participated in the Miss Koovagam 2009 competition. Selection was on the basis of their personality, HIV/AIDS knowledge, social concern and their services delivered to their community. The three winners were given the title of Miss Koovagam, second and third respectively with a cash prize of Rs 4000,Rs 3000 and Rs 2000.
R Janagaraj, Chairman, Villupuram Municipality, Dharmalinga, Joint Director, Health services, Villupuram District,Pusparaj, Program Manager-IEC, APAC, A Bakthavatclam, Executive Director, ARM, A J Hariharan, founder secretary,ICWO, I Ambalavanan, Director,PDI,Sathish, Rotary District Secretary, Villupram District attended the program and presented the prizes.
For the questions aimed at testing the knowledge of participants on STI/HIV/AIDS, only nine of them got the answers correctly from amont the 300 transgenders who participated in it.
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