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Firdaus Kharas (Fir-dose Kha-RASS) MA, LLD (hc), DHum (hc) is a social entrepreneur and media producer who uses video and animation to better the human condition around the world. He founded Chocolate Moose Media in 1995 to produce for-profit and not-for-profit content for film and television aimed at progressive behaviour change. He was born November 18, 1955 in Calcutta, India, and is now Canadian. His TV series and documentaries have focussed on health issues, children's television series, human rights, dementia and refugees. He has won 79 international awards, including the (Trailblazer Award ) and was named in February 2015 as one of the world's (50 Most talented Social Innovators ). His notable works include seven public-service announcement campaigns (PSA) including ''The Three Amigos Campaign'', targeting the spread of HIV/AIDS; ''Buzz and Bite'', focussing on protection against malaria; and ''No Excuses'', combatting domestic violence. In 2006 ''The Three Amigos'' was given the Peabody Award.〔(66th Annual Peabody Awards ), May 2007.〕 He recently completed two animated shorts to prevent the spread of Ebola in West Africa. Prior to his media career Kharas worked in the Canadian public service dealing with immigration and refugee policy and on United Nations affairs. He has travelled to 140 countries and frequently speaks at international conferences, trains animators and sits on media festival juries. == Early Life and Education == Kharas was born into an upper middle-class Parsi family during Calcutta’s (most turbulent period of social upheaval ), which would influence his entire life. His father was a mechanical engineer and his mother a British-trained lawyer. First introduced to progressive causes by his mother, who volunteered for an NGO, he was taught the realities of disenfranchised people and at age eight was taken to Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying. At the time he also started writing plays and acting in high school productions first at (La Martiniere School For Boys ) in Calcutta and then at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay. After graduation he was the first recipient of the Rotary Club of Bombay’s international exchange-student scholarship. With it he attended an honors year at (Commodore Perry High School ) in Hadley, Pennsylvania. Kharas then studied political science as an undergraduate at (Thiel College ), Pennsylvania (BA, 1978). In his final year he won the (National Model United Nations ) debate. In 1978 (Dr. John Sigler ) offered him a full scholarship to complete a master's degree at Carleton University’s (Norman Paterson School of International Affairs ) (MA, 1980) in Ottawa. His thesis was on human rights and human security and he wrote a draft international Convention Against Torture. Since graduation he has continued his studies: in marketing and law at the (University of Ottawa ); in senior management at (Harvard University’s J.F. Kennedy School of Government ); in social innovation at (Stanford University’s Centre for Social Innovation ); and in climate change at the London School of Economics. After university, Kharas authored two books: (''Togo'' ), an investment analysis of business and political risk in the West African country, and ''How To Immigrate To Canada''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Firdaus Kharas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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