Bhopal: Woman knight spearheads crusade against child marriage, social evils

Bhopal: Woman knight spearheads crusade against child marriage, social evils

Staff ReporterUpdated: Thursday, May 30, 2019, 10:42 AM IST
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BHOPAL: She is 26 year old and she has taken the responsibility of making her area Barkheda Pathani, BHEL a better place to live. Bhawna Sahu works against child marriage, domestic violence and other social issues. She also actively works for cleanliness in her area, education and counselling people about girl child, equality, women empowerment, helping and advising women on legal issues. Having support from 10 men and women of her area, Bhawna is now working on the mission of serving the society under the name ‘Shaurya Dal’. She started the group in September 2014 and till now has stopped three child marriages and has saved four women from domestic violence. “I did BCom and LLB from Career College and during my college days I very actively volunteered for social work. Since I am the youngest in four siblings I have no responsibility to look after that is why my family also supports me in my work”, said Sahu.

“I am not passionate to become a renowned social activist. I just want to change Barkheda Pathani and make it a better place to live. My focus is also on education. Our group has got nine children working in small shops of the area admitted to schools. When I talked to them, I found that most of them lost their fathers and were working as source of extra earning to support their mothers. We talked to some NGOs and helped their mothers to work with them and got the children admitted to government school after talking to the principal to help the children in any ways possible. After this I surveyed the area to find how many children are not going to school and found out that there were many children who were not going to school for different reasons”, she added.

Sahu and her 10 member-group did not stop here. They also protested to shift a wine shop from the area. “Few women came to us complaining that people coming to the wine shop created chaos late night and also complained that their husbands started binge drinking. So we protested to get the shop out of the area and were successful,” said the lawyer proudly.

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