Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi will speak on “Youth and Compassion” at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur Campus, in Kancheeepuram district, on Monday, August 5 at the T P Ganesan Auditorium in the campus at 10am.

SRMIST President Dr. P Satyanarayanan, will preside.

After his speech, Satyarthi will take questions from students.

This will be his maiden visit to the SRM KTR Campus during which he will also plant a tree.

Kailash Satyarthi and the grassroot movement founded by him, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement), have liberated more than 83,000 children from exploitation and developed a successful model for their education, rehabilitation and reintegration into the mainstream society. 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.

In the early 80s, he used to publish a fortnightly, ‘Sangarsh Jaari Rahegaa’ (English: The Struggle Shall Continue), that primarily
focused on the work done by motivated people for the larger good of the society, particularly in defending human rights. He has also authored several articles and booklets on issues of social concern and human rights. Kailash set up three rehabilitation and educational centres for freed bonded child labourers that resulted in the
transformation of victims of child servitude into leaders and liberators.