Bengaluru: from protecting soles that are less able to share animated videos among rural populations to increase covid awareness, employment by two city teenagers has attracted international recognition.
Godika, 14, and Lakshya Subodh, 17, received Diana’s award at a virtual ceremony on Monday night for their human work.
SIA, a Neev Academy student, won an award for the work done by his group, a single soldier, while Lakshya, a Delhi Public School student, Bengaluru East, was awarded for the ‘Covid’ Project Project ‘.
Diana Award respects young children who work to improve the lives of others and are supported by the deceased daughter of two sons – Prince William and Prince Harry.
Kormanangala Resident Sia started a single soldier, taglined ‘Donate A Sole, save a life’, in November 2019 after he was disturbed by the legs of damaged construction workers near his house.
“I did research and found that millions of people contracted illness by walking barefoot, while 350 million footwear was thrown by special households, and some were only stored in a closet that was not used,” he said.
This initiative has collected more than 15,000 pairs of footwear of 4,000 households, updated and distributed among those who are less capable.
Bellandur Resident Lakshya began his social work since he was eighth grade.
With the support of the company owned by family friends, Lakshya helps rural students with micro internships, industrial-based opportunities such as guidance and work options in the future with the initiative ‘DREAMS’.
“With a pandemic, the Indian countryside is no longer looking for an internship, but health care and education about Covid-19,” he said.
Lakshya then began to raise funds to work on Covid curriculum with the right information and interesting animated videos, which have reached more than 250 families and 5,000 women and adolescents in the village of Solepura on the border of Karnataka-Tamil Nadu, Lakkawaram at Andhra Pradesh and Pauri -Garwal on Uttarakhand for the past year.