Divya Dhar is a Doctor and the CEO of the P3 Foundation (1). She has been awarded the inaugural Young New Zealander

New Zealanders

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 of the Year award 2010 (2) and inaugural Indian New Zealander of the Year award 2011 (3).

P3 Foundation

Divya set up the P3 Foundation with a vision to mobilise young people to break the poverty cycle. P3 stands for Peace, Prosperity and Progress and aims to educate, encourage action and advocacy

Advocacy

Advocacy is a political process by an individual or a large group which normally aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an...

. The P3 Foundation works on relative poverty within New Zealand and absolute poverty overseas. Aiming to bridge the learnings from the two and enabling action in both.