DESIGN FOR CHANGE BY CENTRE POINT SCHOOL,

KATOL ROAD NAGPUR

FEELWe, the students of Centre Point School

Katol Road Nagpur saw that, a lot of food was being thrown in and around our school by the students and outside. This deeply saddened us and forced us to think that, in so many homes there were children who slept at night without even having a morsel of food.

We all went up to our teachers and sought to solve this problem and discussed about the issue and thought of working towards food wastage. As recently the food security bill was passed by government and looking at the inflation of food commodities.

IMAGINE We all sat together and discussed

about how we were going to go about the solution. We all had various idea and we wanted to use all of them so, we planned our field work in such a way that it incorporated all the good things of all the idea that came up.

. Everyone showed a lot of enthusiasm, zeal and concern towards the cause. After long discussions we finally came up with the agenda.

DO

As it was rightly said by someone, 'Actions speak louder than words.' we got up and started off with all of our ambitious plans!

The first thing that we did was going to class 1 and 2 and made them aware of food wastage.

The students listened to us with utmost concentration and we hope that they follow what we told them!

We then gave them a food chart for a week which included a lot of healthy food.

After that, we gave them a feedback form just to know the response!

Later we showed the students of class 6 a Power Point Presentation on food wastage and the importance of healthy eating habits!

Then, we divided ourselves into two groups and went to leading restaurants in the city namely, Ashoka, Centre point hotel, Haldirams to find out about left over food , waste management and tried to give them ideas and solutions about distribution of leftover food .

We found out that cooked food at the end of the day is given to staff and rest is thrown away.

We asked them various questions like-

What do they do if there is any wasted food How much food is left at the end of the day?What do they do with the extra food?Which type of food is usually left (Raw or cooked) ?How is the left over food consumed? The response from the restaurants was great and they were very cooperative.

SHARE

We shared our ideas through Posters Banners Discussion Street play Planning a healthy week Presentation Display of street play in our school

assembly Principal addressing the students

Street Play We also performed a street play in our

school and a kindergarten. Our message of management of food wastage was conveyed by this in a beautiful manner.

Through street plays we tried to reach the young minds and made them aware of our thoughts towards our mission of curbing food wastage.

Feedback by the members of Design For Change

Amrita – “ I enjoyed working as a team towards a better society. Working to curb food wastage was a delightful experience.”

Parikha – “ It was a good opportunity to spread awareness about food wastage amongst the people around us . I am glad that the effort we made has started to pay.”

Vedika – “ I was delighted to work for design for change and spread awareness about a throbbing cause that is food wastage in my society.”

Lipika – “ I had great time working for design for change . According to me the street play was the most effective part of our project. “

Arushi - “ I was glad to work for the society with my concerned team members who worked hard to curb food wastage .”

Priyanka – “ It was a great experience . The teachers were supportive and guided us towards this project.

Our mentors-

Soma Datey Ranjeeta Majumdar Narendra Singh Suhasini Chitore Sanjay Waliokar Nibedita Roy