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| Kavithamol, Chamakkara, Anappara, Vithura, Thiruvananthapuram |
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Before she gets ready to fight viruses and bacteria as an MBBS graduate, Kavithamol had to deal with deadly wild elephants and other enemies like numbing poverty many a times. An adivasi girl who lost her father due to snakebite when she was 1 year old, Kavitha was brought up on the determination of her mother Sumathi rather than on any other resource.
As a school student, she had to walk 5 km from her dilapidated hut in Chamakkara to Govt. High School at Anappara in Vithura Panchayat, Thiruvananthapuram. Owing to the treat posed by wild tuskers, she had to return home on many days. There were occasions when she escaped from them by the skin of her teeth.
It was only after she got admission in a tribal hostel in the 6th standard that the threat from wild elephants faded away. She studied upto SSLC in Kattela Residential School, Sreekariyam before completing Plus Two at Govt.Women’s College, Thiruvananthapuram. It was in 1998 that she joined MBBS at Medical College, Kozhikode.
After the death of her father, there was no one to guide the young Kavitha in her studies. But the dogged perseverance of her mother finally paid off. To teach Kavitha, her mother worked hard in the farm in the middle of the forest. Many a times, the wild elephants trampled the produce under their feet just before the toil was ready for harvesting. And yet the mother persisted in her efforts that have now paid off.
Her brother Satheesh Kumar is an overseer in Local Self Government at Thrissur. while her sister Preethamol is a clerk in the Directorate of Scheduled Tribe Development.
Courtesy:
Mathrubhumi,
July 11, 2005
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