
Campaigners visit homes to keep children off drugs
The Hindu
Month-long awareness drive as part of Mahatma’s birth anniversary
The Excise Department, in association with the Vimukthi Mission and the Kudumbashree Mission, has launched a programme to visit homes to create awareness among the children about the dangers of alcohol and narcotics as part of an ongoing month-long awareness programme coinciding with the 152nd birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Home visits were organised in the city on Friday to coincide with the birthday of former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. With ‘Say No To Drinks, Say No To Drugs’ as the message, the workers of the two missions, along with civic body councillors, interacted with children in 150 households each of the Vallakadavu and Poonthura wards in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.

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