NOORUDINA RASHID: FREE LEGAL AID CELL FOR POOR WOMEN
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| Noorudina Rashid, Kozhikode |
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The free legal aid cell of Advocate Noorudina Rashid, Kozhikode is kept open for poor women clients. Believing that an activist’s role is not in speech but action, she and her group is involved in free legal aid, rehabilitation and activities to improve the social and educational backwardness of certain areas etc.
Till her marriage to C.P.M.Abdul Rashid, she was just another practicing advocate. When she used to narrate the day’s incidents to her husband, he used to suggest to her to do something to help the suffering women. And so, though without any background in social or political work, she ventured to diminish the suffering of her fellow sisters.
For the last 13 years, she has been in the thick of women’s issues and was twice elected member of Kozhikode Corporation besides being a Member of the Women’s Commission of the State.
In her office, she devotes atleast an hour a day listening to the harrowing tales of women victims. According to her, lack of guidance as well as the blind race after material comforts are the undoings of women.
She considers her family’s support vital to the success of her activities. Her husband is a customs officer, while children, Subin, Noor Mehandi and Mehnas are school students.
Courtesy: V.R, Vanitha, April 1-14, 2005
Contributed by: Administrator
