When slogans go beyond the enclosures of banquet halls, it really speaks. And if that concerns with health and safety of life, it adds value.
When the entire world is in the grip of a fear of the deadly Coronavirus, some, over hundreds, walked down to the ground zero with a mission that mattered.
The task was not mountainous but a trying one. Volunteers from the ITER and over 50 from the nursing college chose a tryst with the conditions in Malipada, Chhatabar and Jamoojhari and it was an impetus long awaited towards building up an awareness not merely through pamphlets and discourses but through a ground reality check.
The survey made by the team was in essence and in practice. The catch was an Aap that drove the volunteers though the nondescript lanes and by-lanes, creating the much desired awareness about the COVID-19, how hand-wash plays as a major deterrent and the volunteers undertook the challenges of wadding through the filth in water ponds and their cleansing, were a fabulous combo of a spirited volunteerism that the day requires.
It was no touch and go type of an exercise, but was the product of a scientific recce that the volunteers had resorted to before barging on to the challenge. They stayed in village schools and health centres making them as the base camps. Which included students from abroad being a part.
From the safe confines of the city, the volunteers from the ITER, an initiation driven by the SOA NSS, catapulted itself to a ground breaking exertion that was not merely aimed public relation, but with a purpose rooted in the ground.
It was not limited to what they saw and did, but efforts were at play to apprise the concerned officials of the state as what needs a re-look.
