A young martial arts practitioner is teaching karate and self-defence to girls studying in government schools. Apurva Nidgundi has launched the initiative at a government school since she thinks that students at government schools are more vulnerable than those in private schools. She started teaching in the month of August 2014. She herself is a Class XII student of Greenwood High School. Her team now covers government schools in Varthur, Munnekolal and Gunjur. She is currently training 1800 girls in various schools. The programme is divided into various modules to raise awareness, understand body language and prepare for attacks. Students learn striking, blocking and evasion techniques and also get to see advanced karate techniques.
Apurva hopes that the schools can one day sustain the training with the help of girls who are now being trained. She also dreams of taking self-defence to every woman in the city by conducting classes for them.
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