CMCA Alumna, NGO Co-Founder, and CMCA Volunteer – The story of Ruchita from Hubballi

Posted By CMCA on 27 Aug 2019

Meet Ruchita Doddamani from Hubballi, CMCA Club alumna, CMCA Volunteer Educator and co-founder of a Belagavi-based NGO.  

Her journey with CMCA started as an 8th-standard student at the CMCA Club in Jeeveshwar Girls High School. While she would eagerly look forward to CMCA classes every week, her fondest memory is of an environmental awareness drive she organised with her classmates and how she convinced her parents to switch to more eco-friendly practices.

After many years, when her neighbour told her that CMCA was looking for Volunteer Educators, she decided to get involved with CMCA once again. Regarding her experience as a CMCA Volunteer Educator, Ruchita says that the best part is when the students ask her to come to school and take CMCA classes every day and not just once a week! She also loves the fact that, at CMCA, everyone is treated equally irrespective of their age or gender.

Apart from this, Ruchita is also the co-founder of a Belagavi-based NGO called Mrinalini Foundation. She started the foundation along with a friend in 2018, with the objective of serving marginalised communities in their area. Through her foundation, Ruchita and her friend have distributed school bags and books to children, and organised plantation drives and free health camps. During the recent North Karnataka floods, the foundation provided much-needed aid to the affected families. And that’s not all! Mrinalini Foundation also functions as a database for blood donors in the Belagavi district.