ABHAY KUMAR

Mr. Abhay belonged from Hyderabad, he perused his engineering degree in Electronics and after that he joined MNC in Banglore and worked for 5 years. He inspired by himself to work in social sector in Raichur, he started working on Devadasi system.

He created awareness about Devdasi system in Raichur district, 100 villages now they left this system. He formed an organization called “Navjeevan Mahila okkut”, this is a non registered organization.

Advocacy :

His organization is working on social problems which comes from people. He used Advocacy tool for fighting against social problems. While doing advocacy these twelve things we have to remember -
Ø Advocacy should be done by people who affected by the issue
Ø Understanding the issue theoretical and practical aspects both in local contents and in other parts of country and the world.
Ø Believe in the issue as belief in the strategy is important.
Ø Grass root level work on the issue, both activism and constructive involvement.
Ø To work along with the media and not use the media.
Ø Data collection and presentation should be human, not just statistics.
Ø To always have the goals broke down in to short term, medium term and long term demands.
Ø Understanding of the government administrative machinery and way of working is very important.
Ø Should have well wishes in all fields.
Ø Proper use of all forums available sensitive days of year and reacting to important events is very essential.
Ø Regular follow-ups is a very important.

Ø Attack the issue simultaneously from many fronts, also one is some required to take two steps back and then move ahead.

Ø Always fight for issue not people responsible. (Reference: Abhay)