Police & Heart to fight
against Drug and Sexual Abuse
By Dinesh Kamath
(Above) Photo: Children enjoying the
inauguration ceremony. Inset:- (from left) – Shri Patil, Shri Arjun Aadagale,
Dr. Jayakar Ellis, Shri Deshmukh & Shri Katkar.
NAVI MUMBAI: In a bid to curb the rampant growing
of drug abuse and silence on Child abuse in Schools and Colleges, The
Maharashtra Police (Navi Mumbai Unit) and Heart (Helping to Educate, Associate,
Rehabilitate & Teach) Foundation have joined together and launched “PACT”
(Prevention of Abuse of Children & Teens) through which they would be going
around different Corporation and Private Schools to spread awareness of the
above. This initiative will be done in phases through out the year from 14th
July 2014 to 15th August 2015 under the PACT project which is the brainchild of
Dr. Jayakar Ellis, Founder, Heart Foundation.
“We are very happy to be associated with the
Heart foundation for such a unique endeavor and with the guidance of our Police
Commissioner Sir Shri K L Prasad we hope to reach out to the children with a
message that life is much better than drugs,” said Mr. Deshmukh, Senior Police
Inspector, Turbhe MIDC. “We have been wanting to do this program since the past
few months and after several meetings with Dr Ellis and his team we are able to
start it,” said ACP Vivek Masal.
“Children these days are stormed and
confronted with struggles including addictions of various sorts, peer pressure,
high pressure to perform, extreme competitive environments, struggles of broken
home backgrounds, and the struggle to be brave and ‘cool’ before friends and
parents. This slowly pushes them into these habits knowingly and unknowingly.
We at the Heart want to CARE TO CURE the society by reaching out to these
tender hearts and show them that life is worth living without all these habits,”
said Dr. Jayakar Ellis.
The inauguration
of the year long program was done at the SK Vidyalaya, Turbhe Store with over
300 children and several Corporators from that area attending the same. Shri
Arjun Aadagale, Chairman, Slum Improvement Committee, NMMC, Shri Katkar (Crime)
& Shri Patil (Adm) of the Navi Mumbai Police were also present and shared
their views about the same.
“I never knew
what drugs were and now that I know I will spread it amongst my friends” said
one student. “I am happy that I came to
know these things at this age so now I will never touch them in my life” said
another student.
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