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When a former student saw children risking their lives crossing a marshy ditch on broken electric poles, he didn’t wait for permission -- he acted. Madhu K V, with leftover materials from his metal fabrication unit, built a footbridge in just one day, creating a safe path for nearly 600 students and local residents. This is the same place where a proposed foot overbridge is pending before the Railways for the past four years.
When the 2024 landslide tore through Chooralmala, Kerala, it left behind ruin, grief -- and a broken bridge. In just 31 hours, the Indian Army’s Madras Engineer Group built a Bailey bridge across the raging Punnapuzha, reconnecting villages cut off from the world. A year later, they quietly stepped in again -- sending umbrella-making material to eight women from Mundakai and Chooralmala, many of whom had lost everything. This is the story of Bailey Umbrella -- a self-help group named after the bridge that saved them.
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