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Sunil Kumar

Social Philanthropist & master of psychology— this is how my engineering chums referred to me when I was in college. Having grown up in a middle class family in Balimela, a beautiful place under the canopy of nature in Odisha, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from VSSUT, Burla in 2008. It was a dream since childhood to do something regarding underprivileged groups of society. While studying engineering, I visited the Kirba village to teach the children from the economically weaker sections after college hours. In 2006, I also took an active part in solving the street light problem of the village, maybe that was how I got the title of philanthropist from my college chums. Since 2011, I have been advocating & involved in issues concerning Hansen’s disease, disability rights, rights of person experienced with HIV and weaker section of society. In 2017, a self-financed non- profit organization was founded to advocate for the rights of person experienced with Hansen’s disease, Person experienced with HIV and other weaker section of society. The World Leprosy Community Rights Face book page was designed & developed in February 2018 to promote the rights of person experienced with Hansen’s disease. We have conducted several awareness programs to educate and make people aware regarding the rights of person experienced with Hansen’s disease in schools, colleges and colonies. Secondly, we conducted a survey in 2018 which aimed to determine the current attitude of people towards Hansen’s disease, because in order to resolve the problem first you need to identify the gravity of the problem, and perhaps survey is the best tool to identify the problem. We have distributed food material, masks, soap, and other essentials to several Hansen’s colonies located across India, during Covid time, more than 350 person experienced with Hansen’s disease benefited from this program. We have raised several awareness program regarding how to defeat Covid19 through social media as well as in colonies.

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