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Sulabh
founder to address Cambridge University students
Thursday January 20, 2011 11:18:44 AM,
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London:
An Indian social activist campaigning for the rehabilitation of
manual scavengers has been invited to interact with the students
of Cambridge University.
Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh International, will share
his views on the issue of human rights and his experience while
campaigning against the practice of manual scavenging in various
parts of India. The lecture will be held Friday.
"The students would be thrilled to hear about his role in the
promotion of human rights, environmental sanitation and
alternative energy resources," the president of the Cambridge
Union Society, Lauren Davidson, said.
With his innovation of low-cost safety toilets and its implication
in generating bio-gas fuel, Pathak has helped in rescue and
rehabilitation of millions of manual scavengers, across India, who
were ostrasiced from the mainstream society as "untouchables".
"Social reform is always a topic of interest at universities, and
many students are, and will go on to be, highly involved in
similar pursuits, and would value the opportunity to engage with
an individual who has been so influential in your work on social
progression," she said in the letter to the Sulabh founder.
The design of bio-gas plant developed by Sulabh has been approved
by the Indian government. The technology has also been used to
construct over 5,500 public toilet complexes for the poor living
in cities across south and central Asia.
Sulabh also runs a vocational training centre in Rajasthan's Alwar
district to help the rescued manual scavengers in finding
alternative avenues. Sewing, embroidery, food-processing and
beauty care are part of the training programmes. Dozens of such
women trainees participated in a fashion show held recently at the
UN headquarters in New York to mark the International Year of
Sanitation.
Founded in 1815, the Cambridge Union Society has been working on
to facilitate free speech and debate and provides its members with
the opportunity to engage with the foremost individuals in
culture, media and politic.
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