Young achiever Ashwini Angadi, who is visually impaired, on Saturday charmed the youth at an interaction arranged by Yuva Brigade.
Highlighting how she dared to travel far to the corners of the country and go abroad alone in order to help physically challenged persons in trouble, she pointed out that a life of sacrifice and service was worth living for. On other hand, people who refuse to take challenges would be wasting their lives.
She initially hesitated to take the challenge to lead the “Young Voices” group that helps people through its branches in several parts of the country, but a reflection on her life revealed that she had to give something to society, and took it up. She went on to receive international recognition and got a chance to share a platform with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Nobel laureate Malala Yousufzai.
Telling people to be optimistic, she said amid claps that “a world is waiting for you and your service”. There was a lot one could do, she told a young man who asked to her what service he could do for society.
She said she had started a residential school for village children through her newly launched ‘Belaku Academy’ near Bengaluru and it was running well. When a youth sought to know how she managed to get funds, she said if one asked (for funds) with sincerity of purpose, there were many hands to help.
Orator Chakravarthi Soolibele and South Canara District Central Cooperative Bank Ltd Chairman M.N. Rajendrakumar spoke.
