Awareness Meeting
Awareness meeting in schools, colleges, companies and for general public
( meeting conducted in slums)
My Husband
Sri.Shanmugam has conducted more than 1000 awareness meetings
in and around Tamil Nadu which include
1) Hosur,
2) Krishnagiri, 3) Dharmapuri, 4) Thiruvannamalai, 5) Salem 6)
Chennai 7) Madurai, 8) Coimbatore 9) Thoothukudi 10) Virdhachalam 11)
Ooty 12) Gudalur 13) Sirkazhi, 14) Sethiyathope, 15 Tiruthani,
16) Trichy 17) Tirunelveli etc,,
In the
State of Karnataka, which include
1)Bangalore
(Urban and Rural), 2) Mysore 3)Mandya, 4)Bijapura, 5)Hasan 6)
Chennapattana and also in few remote areas like Birur, Kadur, Sagara,
Bigar Chikmagalur, Tarikere, Davangere, Gulbarga, Hubli etc.,
Also awareness meetings
were conducted in some parts of Andhra Pradesh and of Western side of
India like Jaipur. Through this selfless service, more than 10,000
families were benefited. He utilized this campaign platform to bring awareness
to general public to whom it was necessary to fight against drug and alcohol
abuse. These programmers’ include Community Based Peer Led Intervention
for early Drug Use Prevention among Adolescents and Youth and Outreach and Drop
in Centre
These awareness meetings were
conducted in the Schools, colleges, software companies, SSI units and garments
factories. Besides, Workshops were organized in police Departments and trainee
Doctors and many slum areas in and around Bangalore to educate general public,
especially the users that drug addiction is a complex disease.
These
meetings were utilized to explain them how these addictions are allowing to
increase crimes, loss of manpower and production in industry
by bringing economic burden on manufacturer and nation. The speakers, who
participated in these workshops and small groups meet, made the public to
understand that Drugs causes harm to them and also invites various health
problems to them.