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What is the role of Arivoli Iyakkam in liberating women? |
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Answer» In Pudukkottai district there is an organisation called Arivoli Iyakkam (Light of Knowledge Movement) which spearheaded the district’s vigorous literacy drive. N. Kannammal is the central coordinator of Arivoli. This literacy organisation conducted literacy campaigns among rural women and created a good number of neo-literates. Later, the Arivoli literacy activists, led by N. Kannammal, pioneered the cycling learning movement and thus gave cycling a social sanction. Later, at Kilakuruchi village, the Arivoli activists conducted a cycling training camp for their neoliterates as well as other women enthusiasts. A large number of those who learnt cycling come to train new learners, as master trainers and this way they helped nearly 70000 rural women to learn cycling. Thus, by teaching them to read and write along with ‘cycling’, the Arivoli organisation liberated a vast majority of the rural women in Pudukkottai District. |
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