Miss Eva Maria Awarded ‘Activist of the Year Award’ by PFP

Muzaffarabad:
Press for Peace(PFP)has awarded "Activist of the Year Award" on " World Peace Day-2008" to Eva Maria Teja Mayer, a devoted peace advocate, down-to-earth believer in human values and human rights activist from Austria.

Eva Maria Teja Mayer is an active member of Press for Peace (PFP) since 2006.
As a social worker and peace activist, she has bestowed her love to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, especially the people of quake-hit areas in Pakistan Administrated Kashmir and demonstrated her unflinching adoration for the noble cause of working for the welfare of ailing humanity.
She visited the quake-hit areas in 2006 to find intimate overview of the situation and upon return wrote a book "A New Morning for Munir: A tale from Kashmir", which is a story about youth responsibility, friendship, brotherhood and faith in Allah.
She has visited IHK twice and has highlighted Kashmiris’s right of self determination and human rights violations committed by Indian troops in various German and English publications. She has been actively engaged in delivering lectures about history, culture, art and freedom struggle of Kashmir in various institutes, particularly schools and colleges in Austria.

She is a prolific writer, researcher and free-lance journalist. She was born in 1962 in Vienna. She has extensively studied ancient history and antiquity, archaeology, Oriental and Western cultures and different religions of the world. She has been in constant contact with eastern societies and ever been determined to go through the intricacies of Sufism and Spiritualism. She has a lot of literary, social and educational work in her credit. She is qualified in alternative healing techniques, energy work and psychology ( Reiki etc.).

She has worked on various assignments in Austria and Germany. As a special initiative, she undertook an in-depth study of the Indian culture and society as well as Indian Healing Methods. She has been in Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia and Romania to participate in various activities. She was awarded Mira Lobe Scholarship in 2005 for Children and youth literature.