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Mumbai
students, dabbawalas rally for health, environment
Saturday January 01, 2011 09:25:59 PM ,
IANS
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Mumbai:
A city-based educational institute along with Mumbai's famed
dabbawalas ushered in the New Year Saturday by organising a rally
to spread awareness about AIDS and the harmful effects of plastic.
More than 150 students and teachers of Agrawal Institute of
Management and Technology based in Vikhroli area of central Mumbai
and over 30 dabbawalas marched in several areas of the city to
spread their message through live representation.
"For example, several of our students disguised themselves as
trees and gave out the message of the ill effects on environment
if they are cut," said Pawan Agrawal, the founder president of the
institute.
Students, dressed as plastic bottles and bags, told passers-by
about the damage plastic does to the environment.
"Live representation works much better than only posters and
hoarding and hence the idea," Agrawal said.
The dabbawalas, on the other hand, were seen sitting in a
'computer lab' set atop a truck to spread the message of
technological revolution.
"When dabbawalas can take a step forward and get computer
education, why can't others? This was the message given out by our
dabbawalas," Agrawal said.
In September, the institute had taken an initiative to give
dabbawalas lessons in basic English and computers.
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