coimbatore the city corporation on friday launched a mental health wellness initiative for 19000 students of 83 corporation schools in view of the pandemic which has forced them to stay home and attend classes onlinecorporation commissioner raja gopal sunkara launched the initiative which is being carried out jointly by the aram foundation charitable trust and robert bosch engineering and business solutions private limitedsocial workers would contact students and parents over phone to get their responses on how the pandemic changed their lives and difficulties they face and suggest suitable solutionswe want to understand how childrens lives have changed in the last one and a half years there is a possibility of child labour child marriage loss of interest in education due to economic reasons apart from behavioural and mental health issues we want to contact all corporation school students to learn how to help them and how to handle children during the pandemic the commissioner saidthe initiative will also help 10000 school students of 30 selected government schools said latha sundaram managing trustee of aram foundation the survey will be completed in another one month and a report would be submitted to the commissioner she said we have avoided direct questions as students and parents may not be willing to share private information social workers have been trained to collect information to get the real picturechildren who face challenges will get individual attention from resource persons the resource team will consist of psychologists psychiatrists motivators doctors counsellors guides and career counsellors the main objective of the exercise is to improve confidence of children and to prevent them from dropping out of schools latha said issues identified would be solved if a child could not concentrate on studies due to financial issues like job loss of parents employment will be arranged similarly if children could not attend online classes due to unavailability of gadgets we will come up with a solution to address it