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Theres no greater violence than to deny the quest of children : Kailash Satyarthi

by IBNS 14 Mar 2016, 06:08 am

Kolkata, March 14 (IBNS): Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi on Saturday said that there is no greater violence on the Earth than to deny the quest of children.

He was speaking at the Rotary Presidential Conference on Literacy and Wash in Schools. 

Satyarthi advocated strict laws against troubles faced by the world currently like child trafficking,child labour, violence, child marriages and sexual abuses.

Kailash Satyarthi said if illiteracy prevails in the  country then it is more than next to impossible to eradicate poverty and bring in world peace. 

“Quality education is the only solution to all the problems related to the achievement of peace.If one generation of children is protected and educated then the other generations can be made stable in terms of economy,” he said. 

The Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation launched a global programme called 100 Million for 100 Million. The programme includes both the constituencies, the deprived children and the youth especially those who want to contribute for the development of those poor and needy infants. 

Speaking about this programme, Satyarthi said:“ If one generation can barely spend $1 USD, on education of a child it can result to produce 50 dollars over 20 years.And can thus bring literacy to the world, besides removing the problem of poverty for the upcoming children. ”

“ The path to sustain economic growth goes only through quality education and not through trafficking or slavery.  If you consider children as the source of cheapest labour and take away their childhood from them then you are paving the path of their future adulthood to be jobless,” he added. 

The Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM) on Saturday announced the launch of its new programme‘Total Literacy & Quality Education’ for India through its ‘T-E-A-C-H’ programme. Carrying forward its annual footprints to bring into focus and applaud the unsung people as well as organisations that have been working to spread the joys of literacy across India.

RILM has inked several MoUs with various stakeholders including Kailash Satyarthi Foundation.

On being asked about the collaboration of Rotary India and Kailsh Satyarthi Foundation, the Nobel Laureate told IBNS “ I am really very happy to declare that Rotary India and Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation is working side by side. With this colaboration we hope that we would be successfulto extinguish the fire of illiteracy from the earth.”
 

Speaking about Rotary India Literacy Mission’s (RILM) approach to uplift education, RILM chairperson Shekhar Mehta said, “We send children back to schools and equip them  with best teaching facilities and smart classes in even rural areas so that the rural children get a platform equal to their urban counterparts. For these schools, we undertake teacher training programmes in collaboration with the government and other stakeholders.”

(Reporting by Aninnya Sarkar, Images by Sandip Roy/IBNS)