First generation graduates reach out to locals hit by pandemic in Vyasarpadi
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A group of youngsters, under the aegis of ‘Vyasai Thozhargal’ (Vyasarpadi friends), has banded to help people in their locality, Mullai Nagar in Vyasarpadi, struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. The youngsters, all first-generation graduates, are mostly from Dr. Ambedkar Law College in Parry’s Corner. They have now become autorickshaw drivers who transport sick patients to COVID-19 care hospitals.
A media report about a man who converted his autorickshaw into an ambulance inspired the group to follow suit.
“We don’t have the resources, but we have the manpower. We got trained in the protocols of transporting COVID-19 patients. We knew we had to do more. We had money to buy just one empty oxygen cylinder. A friend suggested that we could seek out welders who use oxygen cylinders,” says G. Sarath Kumar, coordinator of the group. He is a gold medalist f