40,000 km motorcycle ride for a cause
ALLAHABAD: Shrawan Kumar Yadav, 29, is on a unique mission to cover 40,000 km on bike.
In the process, he will be touching 100 cities and the life of over 75,000 youth and children, motivating them on the importance of emotional well-being and handling stress.
Presently passing through Uttar Pradesh, he took a stopover in Allahabad.
“Suicide by a second-year engineering student studying at my sister’s college in Etawah shook me and I realized that so many youth were ending lives over trivial things. I decided to talk about issues haunting teens and motivate them to take the problems head on,” said Shrawan, founder of the campaign Connecting Youth on Wheels (CYW).
Having already passed through Noida, Ghaziabad, Etawah, Bulandshahr, Kanpur and Lucknow, Shrawan’s next stop is Varanasi. He believes that emotional well-being is the missing link which can bridge the gap in the holistic development of Indian youth.
“With an aim to reach out to as many students as possible, I set off on my favourite bike from New Delhi in third week of January 2017 visiting different cities and talking to youngsters wherever possible. I have already covered 11,000 km across Delhi, MP, Rajasthan and UP’s 16 cities holding 40 seminars attended by 9,000 students. Next I plan to head to West Bengal, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh among other states,” he says.
At the seminars, Shrawan, who is an MBA from Ajmer’s Bhagwant University. talks to ypungsters about how to cope with addiction, frustration , depression and anger as well as how to handle negative emotions, peer pressure and academic pressure, bullying and criticism, self-esteem issues etc.
I decided to talk about issues haunting teens and motivate them to take the problems head on SHRAWAN KUMAR, CYW founder