Aditi Rao Hydari joins a long list of celebrities rallying for a drug-free country. The campaign has been organized by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar under his Art of Living to Fight Drug Addiction.
The list of celebrities includes Varun Dhawan, Sonakshi Sinha, Parineeti Chopra, Kapil Sharma and Badshah.
One of the names among the supporters is Sanjay Dutt. Dutt, himself a victim of drug abuse, said to IB Times, “I have experienced the menace of drugs first hand. I know the havoc it creates and so this cause is close to my heart. Me along with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar are ready to take up the biggest fight against drugs.”
Sri Sri Ravishankar, while talking about the reason for initiating the movement, said “When stress increases, man seeks to get rid of this stress and in this process gets into substance abuse. When you train them in handling this stress effectively through spiritual tools like meditation, pranayam and Yoga then their perspective towards life changes totally. Otherwise, so many youth are destroying their lives by getting into addiction. To put an end to this menace, we are organizing this nation-wide movement called the Drug Free India.”
The program will be launched on February 18 at the Chandigarh University and at Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and Technology in Hisar, Haryana, with the support of the Haryana government.
Prakash Javedkar, the Union HRD Minister said about the movement, “There is a rise in cases of addiction. Good people have to come forward to fight this evil. I congratulate Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and his associates for initiating the fight against the menace.”
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For Aditi Rao Hydari, Sri Sri Ravishanker’s campaign is only one among the several causes that she lends support to. Recently she had promoted the Teach For Change campaign. “I truly believe that literacy and education is essential for an individual to realize their full potential and to break the cycle of poverty. I am very glad that Teach For Change is launching a nationwide movement and I pledge my support to the initiative and encourage all committed citizens who want to make a difference to sign up for the program and volunteer to teach,” said the actress, according to Bollywood Hungama.
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