26th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum – Democracy, Human Rights/Trafficking and Religious Freedom
In his speech, Dr. Achyuta Samanta, the founder of the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), highlighted his over 30-year commitment to eradicating poverty and providing quality education to marginalized indigenous children in Odisha, India. He shared his personal experience of poverty and how, through KISS and the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), he has offered free and residential education to 80,000 indigenous children, breaking the cycle of poverty and shielding them from issues like child labor and human trafficking. He emphasized the unique financial model involvingstakeholder collaboration and underscored KISS’s positive impact on safeguarding human rights, promoting democracy, and gender and religious equality.
