PEOPLE Lakshmana T Naik meets Bindu Doddahatti, a young Mysorean, who is quietly working towards creating human rights awareness. She and her team have been working in the slums of Mysore and Bangalore, lending a voice to the marginalised.
This young woman from Mysore is deeply concerned about issues relating to human rights.
Her concern for the marginalised has meant that she has extended a helping hand to many of them. take for instance, her efforts to help Chandana from Siddharthanagar in the City to get an education.
This young woman's name is Bindu N Doddahatti. She is a student who is quietly championing the cause of human rights not just in Mysore, but in the US, UN and Kabul.
Bindu's father runs a school in Mysore, while her mother is her biggest support in her cause. Bindu cared for issues of human rights right from her teenage years.
She is now an eighth semester student in the JSS Law College. She and her team now work in 16 slums in Mysore, creating awareness about people's rights.
She started the organisation called Spiritus International in August 2011. She and her team have been actively involved in not just creating awareness in slums, but also in trying to rehabilitate those being exploited. Her experience as a social worker in 'Odanadi', an organisation in Mysore came in handy. She studied national and international laws, human rights protection, etc for two years.
Her team has now extended its work beyond Mysore. A group of 12 people now works in Koramangala's slums, trying to create awareness on human rights issues and rehabilitate the exploited.
Bindu and her team's efforts are all funded by their own respective families. Even her visits to New York, and Kabul were funded on her own. People from 28 states had applied to participate in the World Human Rights Convention in the UN. Bindu was the chosen one. As many as 350 youths from across the world presented paper on issues relating to human rights at the Convention. Later, in June last year, she got an opportunity to participate in a discussion on rural microfinance in Bangladesh. Bindu is now striving to chalk out a microfinance scheme in Mysore's slums.
Visit to Afghanistan
Bindu wanted to visited Kabul to understand the human rights issues in Afghanistan. She got in touch with the Human Rights Commission member in Kabul, apart from getting in touch with Indian authorities. She was given an opportunity to visit the country in August last year. Afghanistan's Parliament member Habiba Danish was impressed with Bindu, and extended an invitation for her to visit the country. As part of her visit to Kabul, Bindu visited a bomb-ravaged street of that city. After witnessing how women are treated in Afghanistan, Bindu's resolve to work for human rights and keep a watch on violations has emerged stronger. Her work towards rehabilitating the exploited and helping them realise their dreams continues in the slums of Mysore and Bangalore.
This young woman from Mysore is deeply concerned about issues relating to human rights.
Her concern for the marginalised has meant that she has extended a helping hand to many of them. take for instance, her efforts to help Chandana from Siddharthanagar in the City to get an education.
This young woman's name is Bindu N Doddahatti. She is a student who is quietly championing the cause of human rights not just in Mysore, but in the US, UN and Kabul.
Bindu's father runs a school in Mysore, while her mother is her biggest support in her cause. Bindu cared for issues of human rights right from her teenage years.
She is now an eighth semester student in the JSS Law College. She and her team now work in 16 slums in Mysore, creating awareness about people's rights.
She started the organisation called Spiritus International in August 2011. She and her team have been actively involved in not just creating awareness in slums, but also in trying to rehabilitate those being exploited. Her experience as a social worker in 'Odanadi', an organisation in Mysore came in handy. She studied national and international laws, human rights protection, etc for two years.
Her team has now extended its work beyond Mysore. A group of 12 people now works in Koramangala's slums, trying to create awareness on human rights issues and rehabilitate the exploited.
Bindu and her team's efforts are all funded by their own respective families. Even her visits to New York, and Kabul were funded on her own. People from 28 states had applied to participate in the World Human Rights Convention in the UN. Bindu was the chosen one. As many as 350 youths from across the world presented paper on issues relating to human rights at the Convention. Later, in June last year, she got an opportunity to participate in a discussion on rural microfinance in Bangladesh. Bindu is now striving to chalk out a microfinance scheme in Mysore's slums.
Visit to Afghanistan
Bindu wanted to visited Kabul to understand the human rights issues in Afghanistan. She got in touch with the Human Rights Commission member in Kabul, apart from getting in touch with Indian authorities. She was given an opportunity to visit the country in August last year. Afghanistan's Parliament member Habiba Danish was impressed with Bindu, and extended an invitation for her to visit the country. As part of her visit to Kabul, Bindu visited a bomb-ravaged street of that city. After witnessing how women are treated in Afghanistan, Bindu's resolve to work for human rights and keep a watch on violations has emerged stronger. Her work towards rehabilitating the exploited and helping them realise their dreams continues in the slums of Mysore and Bangalore.