Students at a school in Sikkim conducted a week-long assembly and rally to raise awareness about the high suicide rates in their state. They worked with an NGO called Red Ribbon Express to educate students about suicide, drugs, and AIDS through plays and counseling sessions. The students then held a silent march through the main market area to publicly raise awareness among community members about suicide and how to prevent it. The students hope their small efforts can help even one person struggling with suicidal thoughts and spark wider change in their community.

2. We have taken a small initiative in order to generate awareness against suicide and to sensitize the people as to how we can control the problem of suicide… to bring about the CHANGE……

3. A need for an awareness was felt when according to the latest report, Sikkim stands First in the number of suicides in the country and Rhenock holds the top spot in the State.

5. Our Objective

7. The Cry for CHANGE Begins…

8. As a single candle lights several other candles…Students conducted week-long morning assembly with Suicide Awareness as a theme in order to outreach the greater masses through the students, the budding members of the society!

10. Morning Assembly…

12. Students join hands with an NGO, RED RIBBON EXPRESS …

14. We along with the help of Red Ribbon Express (NGO) gave counselling to the students and also performed a play in the School Campus in order to aware the students about AIDS, Drugs and Suicide and the harm caused by them.

15. One of the causes of Suicides in the state is due to Drug abuse by the students and adults.Play being performed…

17. Counselling the students…

18. As the saying goes….“if you want the CHANGE... You have to be the CHANGE” The students gear themselves up for the silent rally.

20. The Silent March…

21. WHY AN AWARENESS RALLY?Our main purpose to demonstrate this rally was to aware the people about the consequences of suicide and how we can join hands to avert it.

24. In The Main Market Area

27. Winding Up the Rally.

29. Students address the Public!

31. A Small Step towards a Global Change -Our small effort done in the locality , like a forest fire, was able to trigger a huge response from the society

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33. We believe our effort to be worthwhile if we have managed to touch a single dying soul and have given them hope and confidence through our effort to fight the battle of life and have moved a single concerned individual and developed an urge in him to carry his candle and run to the darkness, reach out the hopeless, confused and torn and somehow light their world…

34. Lastly, LIFE ends when you stop dreaming, HOPE ends when u stop believing, and LOVE ends when we stop caring…So, DREAM, BELIEVE & CARE…..LIFE is Beautiful