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Recently, 48 students of Kesari Higher Secondary School successful T. Nagar and their parents received escaped helmets. When this inaugural kickstarted astatine the opening of the world year, 15,000 helmets had to beryllium fixed away. The banal has dwindled hugely, which is commendable; each helmet cleared disconnected the support is simply a information measurement successful spot for an individual.
Road Guru Trust, a non-profit committed to improving roadworthy information successful Chennai is distributing these helmets provided by ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company arsenic portion of its firm societal responsibility.
K.P. Sendil Kumar, who runs Road Guru Trust, explains: “In June, I attended this nationalist acme connected ‘VRU’s and Road Safety’ organised by NGO TRAX Road Safety and Central Road Research Institute successful New Delhi. Under the CSR programme ‘Ride to Safety’, the institution has been giving distant helmets for the past 7 years, focusing connected 1 metropolitan metropolis each year. Chennai was their absorption for 2025 and I happened to beryllium the lone idiosyncratic from the authorities astatine the summit, truthful I volunteered to thrust the distribution.” Sendil, 58 years old, has retired from a multinational company.
The run resonated with Sendil for galore reasons including the information that his Trust promoted roadworthy information done acquisition and consciousness programmes.
The item of this inaugural is the adjacent absorption connected distributing inferior helmets. It truthful serves arsenic a soundless but effectual advocacy for children’s helmets, mostly ignored due to the fact that galore parents are unaware of their availability.
“Most children dropped astatine schools by their parents successful a two-wheeler bash not deterioration a helmet. In fact, galore bash not bargain 1 for their children. So this run was unsocial arsenic it targeted some parents and children, each nudging the different to deterioration an ISI helmet portion driving,” says Sendil.
The Trust received adjacent to 15,000 helmets for distribution. Since June, Sendil has been reaching retired to authorities and less-privileged institutions asking schoolhouse heads to place students who would request them the most.
This turned retired to beryllium the astir challenging task for the Trust. “We reached retired to 170 schools successful Chennai and lone 60 got backmost to america with a database of names,” says Sendil.
The adjacent task for the Trust was conducting a league astatine the schools for students astir roadworthy information and the value of wearing a due headgear, earlier giving them a helmet.
“My sessions are made interactive and engaging with stories and unrecorded examples,” helium says.
The Trust has 15 much schools to cover. The fig of helmets distributed successful a schoolhouse ranges betwixt 24 and 270, and they are lone fixed to students from classes IV to VIII, fixed the size of the helmets.
Sendil is grateful to a fewer schoolhouse heads who helped dispersed the word. The headmaster of Chennai Public School successful Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar contacted different GCC schools. Likewise, main of Anjum Higher Secondary School successful West the Mambalam collected details of 15 acquisition institutions and got a database ready.
