mangaluru the sudden death of sandalwood star puneeth rajkumar and actor sidharth shukla last year has triggered a group of likeminded youths under the banner of makesome1smilehelping hand to launch awareness drives on heart health and wellness in colleges at dakshina kannada and udupi providing details of the campaign guruprasad shetty a member makesome1smilehelping hand said that a majority of the team members are huge fans of puneeth rajkumar and that his sudden demise had left them shattered campaign launches tomorrowalso a 13yearoldgirl in karkala is suspected to have died due to a heart attack all these incidents pushed us to plan this campaign that will be launched at sri bhuvanendra college karkala on saturday he said as part of the campaign an 18minute video by dr manjunath b v chief interventional cardiologist at aj hospital and research centre will be presented to the students we are planning to reach out to at least 40 colleges in dakshina kannada and udupi and spread awareness on a healthy lifestyle and the illeffects of smoking we will also rope in a doctor locally for every presentation so that students can interact with him and clear their doubts he said the main objective of the programme is to spread awareness on the reasons and symptoms of a heart attack and what steps can be taken to prevent it to instil the spirit of patriotism the team is also taking up painting walls mostly at government schools with pictures of freedom fighters and national heroes and at colleges wall paintings will focus on health awareness in addition the group has also been focussing on painting and improving the infrastructure of rural kannada medium government schools in udupi and dakshina kannada 15 lakh spent to develop eight schoolsshetty said they have spent about rs 15 lakh for the development of eight schools in the last two years this includes painting schools and renovating them we have also taken up electrical works like wiring at a few schools during a followup meeting with a school we noticed that at schools where we have undertaken painting activities the admissions have improved shetty said