WE WE DIDDID IT……… IT………AndAnd BroughtBrought TheThe ChangeChange

INDUS World School, Indore, Madhya Pradesh,Our Team: Rajat, Aakash, Shreenivas, Raghvendra and NachiketaMentor : Monica Jaiswal and Sheetal Chauhan

Step 1 : Feel…Step 1 : Feel… Every morning while coming to school, when

our bus passed through an adjoining road we experienced a foul smell from the heap of garbage scattered all around the road. This garbage had a deep impression on us. And it was troubling us badly. Several times our school had sent many official request letters to the municipal corporation but they didn’t take any action for this so we decided to clean our surroundings ourselves. We had a strong feeling that only

WE CAN DO IT

WHY GARBAGE ??????WHY GARBAGE ??????

This garbage was not only affecting us but also children living in the same locality, an orphanage next to our school and one more neighbouring school. We were actually concerned.

Stinking GarbageStinking Garbage

STEP 2 : imagine…..STEP 2 : imagine…..

We got together and discussed how to move forward. Many ideas came up such as:-

Street playsDistributing pamphlets Making people aware for waste

management.Organizing awareness rallies

STEP 3 : DO…STEP 3 : DO…Plan 1Plan 1

We shared our idea in the morning assembly. All children were quite enthusiastic about it. Prior to the week of execution, we decided our execution plan. We designed pamphlets.

pamphlet distribution…. pamphlet distribution….

We started to execute our plans by firstly distributing pamphlets to the people in the neighborhood. We invited the local people to join us in our cleanliness mission. We got mixed responses. Some appreciated our initiative while others started giving negative feedback but their bad views could not stop us from succeeding in our mission. They told us that doing this won’t make any difference but our reply was that there has to be a beginning.

Children Distributing Children Distributing PamphletsPamphlets

STEP 3 : DO…Plan 2 STEP 3 : DO…Plan 2 We arranged for disposable hand gloves and

masks due to health precautions and set out, armed with tubs, brooms and jute bags to dump the garbage in. Many of the passer by started gathering and appreciating our work and some started helping us, especially children. Even a reporter from a local news channel came over.

It Shook the Municipal It Shook the Municipal CorporationCorporation The impact of distributing pamphlets could be seen

as it shook a few local politicians who resided in the same locality. Our actions delivered a huge jolt to everyone, even to the Municipal Corporation. Two of the representatives came over to our school with joined hands saying please don’t do all this, from hereafter, we will clean the heap of garbage everyday. At that moment we realized that we, the children, had the power which could shake even high post officials and authorities.

Before After

Stape 4 : share……Stape 4 : share…… After completing our task we invited other schools to

come and share their ideas. We realized that garbage is the root problem everywhere. The project which caught our attention was of another school , they used old t-shirts to make cloth bags and thus our idea was shared with everyone.

OUR LEARNINGS…OUR LEARNINGS…

From thereafter, we decided that it should not be done as a small DFC project, but realized that just doing for a few days wouldn’t solve the purpose but continuing this practice would actually make a difference.

From Principal And Parent From Principal And Parent

Principal – Smita Rathore It was a great experience and have felt great power

which children have as we have been trying to do the same thing for 2 years and they have brought the changed in an hour by shaking the people in municipal council.

Parent – Swati Jaiswal I am really happy to see my child working on a great

project like DFC and realizing the importance of proper garbage disposal. In the same evening she counsel her colony friend of making people aware of garbage disposal and made a call to family friends as well for the same.