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Not everyone has the strength to take on mental stress head on. It was the suicide of a youth at 29 year old Shrawan Kumar Yadav’s sister’s college that shook him to the core. It is this that egged him to go on a bike across the length and breadth of the country to counter emotional stress in people. Shrawan is currently on a mission to cover 40,000 km on bike.
He will touch 100 cities and the lives of over 75,000 youth and children. He intends to spread knowledge on emotional well-being and handling stress.
“Suicide by a second-year engineering student studying at my sister’s college in Etawah shook me to my core. I decided to talk about issues haunting teens and motivate them to take the problems head on,” Shrawan, founder of campaign Connecting Youth on Wheels (CYW) tells a daily.
Shrawan who believes that youth are not well prepared to take on the pressures of the world, he makes it a point to inform and educate. Shrawan as he passes parts f India he educates youth of how to counter peer pressure, low self-esteem, lack of communication skills, bullying and confusion on their sense of direction.
He has already crossed Noida, Ghaziabad, Etawah, Bulandshahr, Kanpur and Lucknow.
He believes that emotional well-being is the missing link which can bridge the gap.
He set off on his favourite bike from New Delhi in third week of January 2017 Shrawan, an MBA from Ajmer’s Bhagwant University is most likely to complete his tour next January. The seminars are of around two hour duration. There is no cost for the meet as the campaign is running on contributions by people from all walks of life.
The average ride per day comes upto 100 km.
Majority of adolescents undergo stress, which hampers the major functioning of the body.
Most of the youngsters face multiple problems in their life. Home and school are the centers of these problems.
A white paper that has been published recent;y Save Our Demographic Dividend analyses why India has the highest suicide rates for youth between the age of 15 to 29. Only 13% of India has access to mental-health professionals.
India reportedly spends 0.06 per cent of its health budget on mental health, which is less than Bangladesh (0.44 per cent).
A Lancet report shows India has some of the world’s highest suicide rates. 187,000 suicides took place in 2010, making it the cause of 3 per cent of deaths that year.
The WHO reports about 1 million suicides a year, which would be a rate of about 14 per 100,000 in a global population of 7 billion.
Among men, 40 per cent of suicides are among people age 15-29. For women, it was nearly 60 per cent.
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