Date of event: 23 Jan 2010
Venue: Siddaganga Public School
Team members from LIFE conducted another session on the issue of Waste with SPS eco-club members. The exercises we conducted were: a transect walk in and around the school to identify primary issues with waste in the school vicinity, a basic discussion on waste segregation and also about home-based waste auditing process.
The 40 or so kids from the 6th to the 9th grade were split into three groups and were taken for the observation exercise (transect walk) to 3 different areas around the school, and they were then encouraged to present their findings with the other groups. The key observations included:
-lack of dustbins
-spilling waste in empty plots
-burning of wastes
-toxic wastes etc
The complete report of the exercise will be written by the student volunteers and we will post that here once available to us.
Some home-work has been given to the members and it is just to conduct a basic waste-audit at their respective homes over a 2 week period. The children participated enthusiastically in the event and more students from the school want to join the club now. Some have suggested that they would enjoy a summer camp with the eco-club, which is something we will consider with the teachers of the school.
Pictures of the event will be uploaded soon.
Team members who participated: Swapna, Harsha, Adithya and Phaniraj
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