‘I am Doctor Sathya Selvaraj’ and ‘I am IAS officer Kaviya Sankar’ is how friends and students of Class 9, now promoted to Class 10, introduce themselves.
The children, who were part of a recently-concluded summer camp for Irula tribals in Tiruvallur, were so motivated by all the activities over the past six months of the Siragugal 100 programme that they now believe they can achieve their aim in life.
“On the first day of the camp, the Collector Alby John Varghese came and spoke with us. He asked us what we wanted to become in life and after listening to him, we believe that ‘we can’. We will study hard. During the camp, we addressed each other as ‘Collector Deepa’, ‘Volleyball Akash’ and so on,” said Sathya Selvaraj who studies in the Government Girls Schools in Arani.
