A group medical insurance policy covering 80 children from disadvantaged families was handed over by the principal, Welham Boys School Gunmeet Bindra to the president of Akhil Bhartiya Mahila Ashram, laxman Chowk, Dehradun. The insurance policy by DHFl Paramedica provides medical cover of Rs 20,000 to each child. The children to be covered by the policy are staying in charitable hostels run by the Mahila Ashram while some of them are students of Rajkiya Prathmik Vidyalaya at Karanpur in Dehradun.
The initiative, prompted by the alarming rise in dengue cases in the country, has been funded/supported by a number of organisations like the Charities Aid Foundation, Welham Boys School, NDTV Behtar India Campaign. Bindra assured that she would actively be associated with the Ashram, helping out with its upkeep and maintenance, among other needs, as part of the major outreach programme she has initiated at Welham Boys. She also donated dengue prevention kits as well as mosquito repellent aids to the Ashram. A number of young boys of the school who had been participating in social causes were also present on the occasion.