Read the biography given below and do the tasks that follow. Pushpa Basnet, born in 1984 in Kathmandu, Nepal, is a Nepali social worker and the…

Read the biography given below and do the tasks that follow.

Pushpa Basnet, born in 1984 in Kathmandu, Nepal, is a Nepali social worker and the founder/president of Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) and Butterfly Home, non-profit organizations in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her organization works to strengthen the rights of children living behind bars with their incarcerated parents.

Her efforts have been recognized by national and international media since she was nominated for CNN Heroes Award which she subsequently won in 2012. She has won the super Hero Award in 2016.

Basnet started her career at the age of 21, while she was still an undergraduate in social work at St. Xavier's College, Kathmandu. As part of her college assignment, she visited the women in prison in Kathmandu. She was dismayed when she saw children with their parents behind the bars. She raised 70,000 rupees from her close friends and sister, and started a non-profit organization - The Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) to provide a day care program to the children in 2005.

In 2007, she opened a residential home for kids to live outside the prison year around while still visiting their mothers on holidays. Today, she has assisted more than 137 children of incarcerated parents. She runs a day care center for the prison children and a residential home for older ones. She has also helped to provide alternative residence, school enrollment, free meals and medical care to them.

Basnet has been awarded with CNN Hero Award 2012, which was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, 2nd December. Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon presented Basnet with the award. The show was aired LIVE through CNN.

When earlier interviewed by CNN, she commented on her venture as:

"It is not fair for (these) children to live in the prison because they have not done anything wrong ... My mission is to make sure no child grows up behind prison walls."

A. Choose and copy the correct answer from the given alternatives.

(i) ECDC and Butterfly Home are .............. organizations.
(a) profit (b) non-profit (c) national (d) international

(ii) Pushpa Basnet won Super Hero award in .......
(a) 1984 (b) 2005 (c) 2007 (d) 2016

(iii) Pushpa Basnet began her ...... at the age of twenty one.
(a) social work (b) college (c) career (d) organization

(iv) Pushpa Basnet collected a sum of 70000 rupees from ..............
(a) close friends (b) her sister (c) close friends and sister (d) women in prison

(v) Pushpa Basnet has provided ..... to the children in prision.
(a) alternative residence (ii) alternative school (iii) paid meals (iv) awards

B. Match the meanings in 'Column A' with the correct words form the text in Column 'B'. One word does not have a match.

C. Answer the following questions.

(i) Who is Pushpa Basnet?

(ii) Why did Pushpa Basnet set up a social organization?

(iii) What does ECDC stand for?

(iv) Why was Pushpa Basnet given a 'CNN Hero Award'?

(v) Where was the 'CNN Hero Award' ceremony held?