Youth platform to aid education of Covid orphaned

Vadodara: City-based youth platform Chhatra Sansad has launched a scholarship program to support children who have lost both their parents during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The program will support such children up to Class XII.
“We are starting the scholarship fund for those unfortunate children that have been orphaned during this deadly pandemic,” said founder and president Kunal Sharma.
“Apart from helping them continue their education, we are also working on contacting mental-health experts who can help the children cope with the tremendous loss they have experienced at such a young age,” he said.
Senior vice-president Aditya Vegda added, “Our well-wishers and donors will donate directly to the school to ensure that education of the children enrolled in the schools is not interrupted,” said
“We are also in the process of reaching out to schools directly to make them a part of this initiative so that the entire process can be streamlined and maximum number of children can be helped with this initiative,” he said.
“Around 1,000 volunteers spread in each of ward of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation will report to our ten area leaders as part of this initiative so that we can identify maximum number of children,” he said.