TAMBARAM: Carrying placards, hundreds of schoolchildren took part in a human chain in Tambaram on Wednesday to create an awareness among people of the fact that the presence of white patches, characteristic of leucoderma, was only a skin condition and not a disease.
Schoolchildren, scouts and guides, and volunteers of the National Service Scheme in colleges took part in the human chain that started near the Tambaram railway station and ended near the Convent Bus Stop. They sought to dispel certain misconceptions that leucoderma was contagious and hereditary.
The event was organised by Leucoderma Awareness Movement, started a few years ago by people with this skin condition.
K. Umapathy, one of the founders, said more than the problems, it was the stigma associated with the skin condition that had to be combated.
V.J. Philip, principal, Madras Christian College, inaugurated the human chain. A. Arun, Deputy Commissioner of Police, St. Thomas Mount, also took part and administered the pledge to the participants. R. Vijayashankar, Associate Editor,
Frontline; G. Parameswaran, Vice-President of the Tambaram Bar Association; and Johnson Wesley, treasurer of the movement; were present.
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