An exciting day for us. We never tried it before at this scale at such a location. But with a little help from everyone the day turned out to be outstanding! The place is Janakpuri District Center. It's a large shopping center in west Delhi. Home to various kinds of shops, eateries, restaurants and even offices. Also, a perpetual victim of civil negligence by those who have an establishment here or the visitors to these establishments. Yes, the place maintains consistency all-year round in terms of open garbage dumping. Before we even conducted this drive we spoke to a lot of shop owners to understand the problem. It was the same lamenting around people's attitude towards littering liberally... Forget littering, people found creative ways to dump their garbage - office letter boxes! The other thing that came out of those discussions with the local shopkeepers was finger-pointing on civic authorities. Not that the place doesn't see any sweepers. We did spot one on the day of...
We Mean To Clean (WMTC) is a Delhi-based volunteer group working towards Swachh Bharat and Climate Action through: (a) WM - Waste Management awareness programs and implementation (b) T - Tree plantation (native only) and maintenance (c) C - Cleanup Drives - Cleaning a public place that's a victim of open garbage dumping/ open urination/ defecation.