LIFE conducted an awareness program for the employees at Fiberlink on June 18th at their office premises in Koramangala.
Harsha and Adithya made presentations about LIFE, environmental issues in Bangalore, and on tree planting methods for around 2 hours.
This initiative was through the efforts of Pragati (employee of Fiberlink) with the question about how a person can contribute to improving the environment through day to day activities.
The session was concluded with the distribution of 70 saplings.
Ten of each - Singapore Cherry, Basavanpaada, Honge, Spathodea, Daalichand, Peltophorum, and Pride of India were given to encourage tree planting near each of the employee's residences.
Later on the next day, around enthusiastic 25 employees from Fiberlink attending a tree planting exercise at Ramagondanahalli school area at 815AM.
This School had the needed space and was ideal for plantation. Harsha spoke with school headmaster Krishna Reddy to get permission, and it was decided beforehand that the planting would be conducted during monsoon season.
A small demo was given on how to dig a pit, following which the pits were dug with other activities like taking out weeds. Kids helped out too and made the event colourful.
By 930 am, 30 pits were ready and thanks to the recent rainfall we were able to dig faster.
Took a small break for refueling ourselves.
The saplings arrived then and with new energy we started planting.
3-4 sticks have been placed around each sapling to guard it, and they have been held together with wire to protect from animals and damage because of children's games
The saplings were watered quickly.
At the same time employees conducted a quick clean drive to collect garbage in the school premises and put them into 3 bins.
Last part was photo session with which the event was concluded.
Thanks to Ragahavan and Roopa Shankaran to be part of the event.
Kindly click below link for few pictures:
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