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Deepika’s life-saving campaign

She is a student of Chettinad Vidyashram, class-5. She was selected by her school to participate in the Wiz Team 2006 event, conducted by Horlicks, at the Chennai city level in July 2006, and won the award after going through multiple rounds.

"I have chosen the topic ‘Road Safety’, highlighting the importance of black stickers on the headlights of vehicles to reduce glare at night,” says Deepika.


This is a real time project and she has been campaigning for the past month in various parts of Chennai.

She has been at schools, colleges, important traffic intersections, petrol pumps and even the Koyambedu market. “The response was tremendous and people voluntarily came forward to have the black stickers pasted on their headlights,” exults her father, R Easwaran. The campaign was launched by Satyam Foundation and Women’s Christian College in October, in which Deepika participated and gave a speech on her project.

Chennai City Police Commissioner Letika Saran and Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Sunil Kumar participated in the campaign at the college.


Considering the laurels she is earning for the school, the institution has given her permission to do her campaign at any time of day. But Deepika has been able to juggle her studies and her project admirably.

Easwaran has been watching over little Deepika as she goes around convincing people by the hundreds about the need for safety on the roads and how the little black dots can actually help save lives.


Here is a sample of the speech she delivers as part of her campaign:

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Congrats to Deepika..really done a great job.

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"Rally Drivers Do It Sideways"

ROADTRAFFIC

public participation is very important

junaid

Exactly....

yams

well done why donot school children like you to do this service. all will follow traffic rules Nss voluntary scouts will surely folw this

nayagam

Hi Friends! Happy new year2009!

Let this new year be good for Indians and people around the world.

This is M.S.Nayagam. We run a trust named "GRACE". We are campaigning many "Public Awareness Program", so we want to give Deepika an award for being the best example for children's for doing 'Public awareness camping'. Inform me if any one know her address or no of their parents.

We are starting a "ROAD SAFETY WEEK" from today till 07-Jan-09.
Theme of this year safety week is

Ü DRIVE TO CARE!
NOT TO DARE!Ý

Jai Hind.

Warm regards to all members and viewers of this site.

Nayagam,