Creating awareness on educating orphans
The talent of the orphan children go unnoticed because they are unable to get education
By : sanjeevi anandan
Update: 2015-06-21 06:31 GMT
Krishnagiri: Rain or harsh sunshine, he has been pedalling around on his decked-up bicycle with a white flag fluttering for the last three years. M. Chakravarthi (48), a resident of Byappanahalli, in Bengaluru, is on a bicycle expedition for the cause of orphan children. “My mission is to ask people to give education for orphan children,” said Chakravarthi who drove through the busy highway traffic on the Rayakottai-Hosur road in Hosur of Krishnagiri on a bicycle, with a placard bearing the message ‘Yesterday orphan children, today well-talented people and if educated, tomorrow, the world leader’.
The talent of the orphan children go unnoticed because they are unable to get education. They may succeed in life like others and even become world leaders if they get education, he insists.
So far, he has covered over 5,000 km on his bicycle since 2012. His first mission was to Mettupalayam in Coimbatore and back again to his home in Bengaluru. Later, he toured Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
“I was born in a poor family which forced my parents to send us to work instead of sending us to school. I grew up in the neighbourhood where families separated and children were orphaned. So, I decided to take up the mission of spreading the message of family unity,” he explains.