Brand ambassador of UN for Covid, she is fighting pandemic head on

Avneet Kaur

Jalandhar, June 7

Tanishqa Anand, a first-year student of BCom Financial Services, DAV College, who secured first rank in the college in her last semester exam and cracked an online test to be the brand ambassador for the United Nations Indian Team V Force for Covid-19 group, says she aims to become a successful entrepreneur.

Lockdown gave us ample time to chalk out a plan for our career. It also gave us an opportunity to search about other programmes and online tests through which we can contribute towards serving the nation during the pandemic. — Tanishqa Anand, DAV College student

She said she got to know about this programme of the UN through one of her school teachers and thereafter enrolled herself for the online test. “A team of 30 students from across Punjab has been selected to make the masses aware of Covid-19. The tenure of this programme is three months and we have been assigned different tasks to help people and make them aware of the safety guidelines of the WHO,” she said.

“Lockdown gave us ample time to chalk out a plan for our career. It also gave us an opportunity to search about other programmes and online tests through which we can contribute towards serving the nation during pandemic,” she said adding that under the UN Covid-19 programme, she had been protecting the elderly from Covid -19 as they are the most vulnerable to this disease.

Secondly, I have been working on spreading awareness among people to wear masks and gloves as a part of normal routine and welcome the changes so that the risk of the disease reduces, she added.

She further said lockdown in a big way helped her to know herself better. “I tried to work on my communication skills and vocabulary. I figured out my weaknesses and the hurdles that I might come across in my journey to become an entrepreneur. I worked upon those weaknesses and followed a good routine giving time to my tasks for covid-19 and my studies at the same time.”

Tanishqa said she was really thankful to her parents, college management, and teachers and principal for motivating her to devote her time towards social services. She said it was a tough time for the nation, thus, youth like her should come forward and extend a helping hand.

DAV College, Principal Dr SK Arora, said, it was a proud moment as their college student had been leading the battle from front. “This exemplifies how youths can empower the nation. We as a society should learn and take a pledge to at least follow all the safety precautions to contain the spread of this deadly virus,” he said.