| 词条 | Valerie Ann Taylor |
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|name=Valerie Ann Taylor |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|OBE}} |birth_date={{birth date and age|1944|2|8|df=y}} |birth_place=Bromley, Kent, England, United Kingdom |citizenship=British Bangladeshi |awards= Anannya Top Ten Awards (2000) }}Valerie Ann Taylor, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|OBE}} (born 8 February 1944) is a British-born Bangladeshi physiotherapist and philanthropist.[1] She was awarded Independence Day Award in 2004 for her social work by the Government of Bangladesh. In 1998 she was granted Bangladeshi citizenship by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.[1] She is often called the Mother Theresa of Bangladesh.[3] Early lifeTaylor was born in Kent, England to Marie Taylor and William Taylor.[4] She grew up living close to National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England.[2] CareerIn 1969, Taylor came to Bangladesh, under contract for 15 months, with the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) to work as a physiotherapist in the Christian Hospital, Chandraghona in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.[1] She established the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in 1979.[3] At the start of her career, she was running CRP with four patients in an abandoned warehouse of the Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital. Later CRP has grown to include a 100-bed hospital.[4] Personal lifeTaylor is a legal guardian to two girls with disabilities, Joyti and Poppy.[3] Honors
References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/supplements/star-lifetime-awardees-2016/valerie-ann-taylor-social-work-212617|title=Valerie Ann Taylor - Social Work|date=February 5, 2016 |accessdate=February 9, 2016}} 2. ^{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=173343|title=Valerie Taylor's anniversary of birth today|date=February 8, 2011|accessdate=February 9, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/valerie-ann-taylor-founder-and-coordinator-of-crp-52481|title=Valerie Ann Taylor: Founder and Coordinator of CRP|date=November 28, 2014|accessdate=February 9, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.crp-bangladesh.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=521&Itemid=207|title=Valerie Ann Taylor |publisher=CRP-Bangladesh |date= |accessdate=February 13, 2016}} 5. ^{{cite news|url= http://www.thedailystar.net/if-you-want-to-know-what-love-is-53193|title=IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS|author=Amitava Kar|date=March 8, 2015|accessdate=February 9, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star}} 6. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/valerie-taylor-wins-rotary-intl-award/|title=Valerie Taylor wins Rotary International award|date=June 8, 2013|accessdate=February 9, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star}} Further reading
8 : Living people|1944 births|Bangladeshi physiotherapists|Bangladeshi social workers|British philanthropists|British emigrants to Bangladesh|Officers of the Order of the British Empire|Recipients of the Independence Day Award |
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