Jai Hind students adopt a slum for a month

Fifty students of Rotaract Club of Jai Hind College, Churchgate, have decided to hold a community service by adopting a slum in Mumbai Central for a month where four main causes will be taken up on for slum dwellers.

Like every year, this year too the club members have decided to take up a cause in November. The students have a project called ‘Silent Saturdays’ under which they will work in slum for four different causes. Their first cause will be health and sanitation, in which students will distribute free sanitary napkins to women in the slum. The second cause will be education, under which students will distribute books and stationery items to children. The third is hunger, where the entire slum will be given a nutritious, healthy meal. The last one is cleanliness, under which students will build washrooms and take up a cleanliness drive in the slum, and also have a pest control operation done for the hygiene of the entire slum.

“One of our causes is to build washrooms in those slums that we have adopted,” said Neha Gori, Jai Hind student, Organising Chairperson for Silent Saturdays.

“We will also be holding health check up camps and spread awareness about sanitary napkins. Children will be given crayons, drawing books, etc,” said Kausar Madhyia, Project Mentor.