Kailash Satyarthi to visit SRMIST

S Vishnu Sharmaa, INN/Chennai, @Svs037

SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) will be hosting the popular activist Kailash Satyarthi, the founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) movement.

The popular activist will visit the SRMIST campus on August 5. Satyarthi will adress the students and answer queries posed by them. BBA movement started by the popular activist managed to save 83,000 children from being victims of exploitation and also developed a successful model for their education. 

As a worldwide campaigner, he has been the architect of the single largest civil society network for the most exploited children, the Global March Against Child Labour, which is a worldwide coalition of children’s rights organisations, teachers’ unions and trade unions.

His efforts led to the adoption of ILO Convention 182 on worst forms of child labour in 1999. He is also the founding president of the Global Campaign for Education, an exemplar civil society movement working to end the global education crisis and GoodWeave International for raising consumer awareness and positive action in the carpet industry.