PED TO LAGAYA…  #PaaniDiyaKya ? A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi The bad air days in Delhi have turned hazardous after Diwali evening when the air quality monitoring stations recorded a whopping number of 735 at some locations. Coming few days could be extremely severe! We’re in a continuous war against pollution and trees are the most powerful weapon we have to fight this war by not just planting, but also nurturing them! Our volunteers realize this and gathered this weekend to water the existing saplings at Sangam Vihar. We carried water from our homes and within one hour, 13 saplings were watered. Your support is important too! Join us and help us in contributing to a cleaner and greener country! Visit http://wmtc.org.in

PED TO LAGAYA… PAANI DIYA KYA? No. of volunteers = 6 No. of saplings watered = 57 Amount of waste collected = 6 kg Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking. - Wangari Maathai In any greening project, planting a sapling is always the easy part. Ensuring that it grows up to become a tree is the real challenge. Not all seedlings can take root and a 100% survival rate is not attainable. It needs regular watering, weeding and monitoring to prevent damage or decay. It needs protection from animals, pests and vandals. Most importantly, it needs human neighbours allowing it to take root. Our volunteers understand the struggle of a growing sapling and hence, like every weekend, went to nurture our existing saplings at Hauz Khas and Sangam Vihar. They not just watered the saplings but also did some mulching and cleaning of the place. Thus, the three basic amenities - water, food and shelter, are taken

I WASTE YOU! The greatest threat to our planet is that someone else will save it. - Robert Swan With an aim to help people kickoff waste segregation at home, we conducted a workshop on waste segregation yesterday at Community Centre, Block C, Sarita Vihar. We are grateful to the society kids who personally took the invites to residents. Thanks to this wonderful campaigning team that we had a very enthusiastic audience consisting of 20-25 people. We shared the harmful effects of unsegregated waste with them – how it impacts waste collectors’ health, how it acts as a burden on our already over-capacity landfills and how it contributes to air and water pollution. We were excited to know that the residents are not only trying to begin composting their society's waste but also trying to get more and more people onboard to begin segregation at source. We will be in constant touch with the RWA and following up with them for implementation. Your involvement is

BUILDING GREEN MACHINES! A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. - Elbert Hubbard Are you in Delhi NCR? The rising AQI levels bothering you? Well, the worsening air quality in Delhi has entered the poor category with the only consolation being that pollution is not as bad as that of previous years. Yes, you read it right... It’s better than previous years! Doesn’t this act as a ray of hope? A hope for a breathable Delhi! And this hope is something which motivates our volunteers to keep working towards the solution - building and raising natural carbon sinks in the capital. With the same mission, our volunteers went to nurture these carbon sinks - our saplings at Hauz Khas, Sainik Vihar and Sangam Vihar. If you are a regular follower of our page you would know we have many native tree saplings in these locations - few of them being amaltas, mehendi, neem, amla, pilkhan, hibiscus. Ou

OUR WASTE, OUR RESPONSIBILITY! The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else. - Timothy Morton We conducted a workshop on waste segregation in Vikas Puri’s AG 1 block this morning. We are thankful to the 20+ member audience for displaying an enthusiasm towards waste management. Most of the audience comprised of senior citizens, particularly the ladies. We shared the harmful effects of unsegregated waste with them – how it impacts waste collectors’ health, how it acts as a burden on our already over-capacity landfills and how it contributes to air and water pollution. The response from the audience was quite positive. We were quite excited to also learn from a couple of the ladies who shared their own techniques of composting. We are in close touch with the RWA and we’ll be meeting with them again after a month. If things proceed as expected, we’l

WE ARE FIVE YEARS OLD! Total Volunteers = 44 Garbage Collected = 53 kg The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work. - Amit Kalantri And that’s how we celebrated our five year anniversary today at Buddha Jayanti Park. This special day started as one of our regular cleanliness drives with an add-on focus on segregation. All thanks to the tons of excitement our volunteers brought in with them that we could collect 53 kg trash in less than an hour. Wait...what? Isn’t that too much for a place so beautiful! Did we mention that it was not just a drive! It was a competition this time!!! And like every other competition, there had to be a winner. Interestingly, we had winners… all 44 of them and others too who couldn’t make it today but have been a part of our amazing journey. And so, with the stage set, the gifts ready and potluck meal arranged, it was celebration time. None of us is perfect but getting together has helped us combine ou