Vysai Thozargal -- Changing Lives in Vysarpadi -- The Ford Rotary Digital Lab Set up
This group of young volunteers based out of North Chennai – to be precise Vysarpadi were an unknown till the Covid Wave 2 showed its fury. This team of young graduates have been running a Night school for around 160 children in Vysarpadi for close to ten years or so . They have a piece of land nestled amongst the densely populated houses and huts and Housing Board Flats --on which a shed type arrangement ( Look like a Container ) has been made (neat and clean and well maintained ) and children of various ages come in during the evening hours and are taught various subjects. The Night school is run by these fiercely determines group of graduates who want to change the perception/ the tag that North Chennai is known for and believe that this change can happen only through Education and Education. Well what made them well known during the second wave ? Noticing that there was shortage of beds and more in particular Oxygen availability, this bunch opened up some of the au