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3,000 take part in run for the less privileged

Staff Reporter

Proceeds to go to three groups helping the less fortunate

CHENNAI: The bright yellow T-shirt-clad slum children cheered wildly as they set off on a special run followed by adults with physical and mental disabilities from Lady Wellington College on Kamarajar Salai to Labour Statue on the Marina.

Over 3,000 people who participated in the eighth edition of Citizens' Run on Sunday will help three organisations working with the less privileged by merely making a purchase of the specially designed T-shirts.

The Rs. 6 lakh collected from selling the T-shirts will be used to help the College Students and Graduates Association of the Blind, V Can Help and Gnanadeepam. The Citizens' Run Trust also presented cheques to the organisations chosen to benefit from last year run.

The Trust has so far collected Rs. 55-60 lakh to help little known non-government organisations and initiatives working to better the lives of the less fortunate. The organisation for the blind will use it to convert into Braille the textbooks prescribed in college. V Can Help will use it to fund treatment for cancer in the poor. Gnanadeepam will use it for projects for its mentally challenged children.

The run is supported by Round Table India - Area 2, Young Indians, a part of confederation of Indian Industry, and AISEC. The theme of this year's run is `Freedom through education' and children from a number of organisations working with slum dwellers participated in the `run'.

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