Goodwill hunting

If you think Arjun is an exception,walk across the city roads and you’ll spot a group of students talking to people about the ill effects of tobacco and holding surveys to check if there are any cigarette vendors near schools. “The latest in the series is a survey conducted on various government offices to see whether they’ve maintained the data required to answer queries under the RTI Act or not,” tells Prabjot Kaur,a final year law students. Adds friend Guramrit,”And for those departments that we found lacking in information,a complaint has already been filed with the concerned authorities,” Guramrit tells us now they are holding awareness camps on the RTI Act. This,while AIESEC is making rounds of various schools and colleges to talk about AIDS,its causes,symptoms and myths. Saloni of Youth United,who with her team works with underprivileged children,says contrary to their reputation for being selfish,Gen-Next is about idealism and enthusiasm. “Students enjoy utilizing time and effort to improve the quality of life of underprivileged children,” she says they have also started a new project — YUMEAM. “We’ve already conducted a survey in Colony Number 5 under this project to study the education and health problems faced by people residing there and in June,will hold a five-day workshop to address the same. Besides this,a drug de-addiction camp is also in the pipeline,” she reels. At the Rotract Club,students pitch in to help collect money for heart surgeries. “This year we collected Rs 65,000 through fund-raisers like the Juggy D Concert,salsa workshop and sports meet,” informs Mandeep,the president of the club. With each of them trying to make difference,Harmandeep,a MTech of PU,gets the best out of summers by holding awareness camps against corruption and terrorism and by planting trees with her team at Yes + Club. What are you doing?