4 friends on mission to create vax awareness among labourers

Kota: A team of four teenagers has taken up a mission to create awareness about Covid-19 among labourers at city’s construction sites by distributing face masks, sanitisers and encouraging them to get vaccinated against the fatal virus.

Pushpit Singh, a class 12 student, Dhruvika Pareta, Tanishq Suwlaka and Aarvi Mittal, all class 11 students at separate public schools of the city are part of the team ‘Better Life’, which reaches out to two construction sites in the city every weekend and interact with labourers in groups convincing them on preventive and safety measures against corona and distribute face masks and sanitisers among them.

“We explain the labourers the significance of face masks, social distancing and vaccine in fighting the pandemic, however, most of the labourers inquire about the confusion created over ill-effects of the jab, we clear their doubts and encourage them for vaccination,” said Pushpit.

The team also gets them slots for vaccination through the CoWIN app. The team has so far facilitated vaccination to over 300 labourers from around 14-15 separate construction sites of the city in the last 2 months, he claimed.