Wake Up India Foundation, a students’ group from the Birla Institute of Technology started in 2010, is now in Chennai too.
Students from different colleges of Chennai are getting involved in the organisation. The first meeting was conducted in Chennai under the leadership of Neha Sharma, a third year student of visual communication from Women's Christian College, who has been designated as the State head of the organisation.
"It has been our aim to bring a change in the society. We reach out to the youth through different seminars and campaigns," said Sharma. The team in Chennai is all-girls group. It was decided in the meeting that Ankita Chheda and Alphonsa Natalia would serve as the Media and Communication executive, Varsha Shrinivasan as Social Media Executive, Faith Syiem and Sriparna Ghosh as
sponsorship head, Sraiyanti Haricharan and Ann George as the creative heads, and Hafza Riaz as financial head. It has been decided that as its first event in Chennai, Christmas Day will be celebrated with orphans. The members have started working for conduction of the event.