FOR A CAUSE: Students of SDM Siddhartha Mahila Kalasala, welcoming members of the `AIDS Walk for Life' rally in Vijayawada on Wednesday.

VIJAYAWADA: An AIDS awareness rally was taken out in different parts of the city on Wednesday. The rally, part of an all-India campaign, had entered Krishna district.

The team of Project Concern International, led by K. Srinivas, continued its `AIDS Walk for Life' even as activists of various non-governmental organisations (NGOs) participated in the event at different places.

The PCI team said that the awareness walk was aimed at reaching at least two million people in over 300 cities, towns and villages across the country. The focus of the campaign was to educate truckers and commercial sex workers along the new highway, believed to be a significant sector for transmitting the disease.

Office-bearers and members of the Krishna District Lorry Owners Association (KDLOA), staff of its Suraksha Yatra Project, and others received the PCI team and took out the rally from Siddhartha Mahila Kalasala to Benz Circle. The association president, Yelamanchili Veera Eeswara Rao, the Suraksha project coordinator, R. Rama Rao, their staff members and truckers participated in the walk.

The NSS volunteers of P.B. Siddhartha College of Arts and Science, the college teaching and non-teaching staff also came in a procession from the college premises to Benz Circle via Hotel DV Manor.

They held placards on AIDS awareness and the steps to be taken for preventing its spread.

The procession was led by the Siddhartha College Principal, S.V. Subrahamnya Sastry, the Academic Officer, N. Satyanarayana, the NSS programme officer, T. Venkateswara Rao and others.

A team of Suraksha Project enacted a skit and burrakatha on the disease and the need to prevent it. The lorry owners' association team accompanied the PCI main team till the Vasavya Mahila Mandali took over for continuing the walk up to Andhra Loyola College.

The district nodal officer, B. Jagannadh Naik, and representatives of World Vision and other NGOs received the `AIDS Walk of Life' team at several places. Volunteers of South Central Railway's REAPS project also participated in it. The NSS volunteers of SRR&CVR Government College, the NSS Officer, Joshi, and others took part in the awareness rally.

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