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| name = Bibi Balwant Kaur, MBE<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth-date|10 May 1915}}<br />
| birth_place = Village Soos, Punjab<br />
| death_date = {{Death-date and age|21 March 2009 | 10 May 1915}}<br />
| death_place = [[Wales, United Kingdom]]<br />
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| other_names = Bibi Ji<br />
| known_for = Charity<br />
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'''Bibi Balwant Kaur''' ([[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]: ਬਿਬੀ ਬਲਵਨਤ ਕੌਰ, 10 May 1915, Soos, [[Punjab]] – 21 March 2009), also known as Bibi Balwant Kaur Soor or Bibi ji, was the founder and chairperson of Mata Nanki Foundation, located at Rookery Road, [[Birmingham]], the head of the Bebe Nanaki movement and the Mata Nanaki movement.<ref name="Saanj">{{cite web|url=http://www.saanjhpunjab.org/articles/Sikh_Diaspora_Philanthropy_Chapter_9.pdf|title=Sikh Diaspora Philanthropy |accessdate=5 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727230258/http://www.saanjhpunjab.org/articles/Sikh_Diaspora_Philanthropy_Chapter_9.pdf |archivedate=27 July 2011 }}</ref><br />
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In 2000, Bibi Balwant Kaur was awarded the MBE ([[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]]) by [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth]] for dedicating her life to charitable causes.<ref name="Saanj"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hcilondon.org/pr260101.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628070037/http://www.hcilondon.org/pr260101.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 June 2010 |title=PR_260101 |date=28 June 2010 |access-date=9 December 2017}}</ref> In 2007, she won the Sikh Women's Alliance Award for her "lifetime work in the service of worldwide humanity."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sikhreview.org/september2007/report.htm |title=The UK Sikh Women's Conference |access-date=5 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718101450/http://www.sikhreview.org/september2007/report.htm |archive-date=18 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110625081707/http://www.bebenanaki.org/ Gurdwara Bebe Nanaki Ji]<br />
*[http://www.matanankifoundation.com/ Matananki Foundation]<br />
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