Date: 27-12-2020 Number of volunteers: 5 Trash Collected: 10 kg The residents of AG1 block in Vikas Puri came together last Sunday to clean a park in their neighbourhood. They collected around 10kg of waste including plastic bottles, glass bottles and plastic glasses that were dumped in an alcove, which took a lot of removal effort. Are you planning to do a cleanup in your neighbourhood? Share your pictures with us and we will post them on our platforms.

Date:  25-12-2020 Number of Volunteers: 3 Trash Collected: 25 kg Our volunteers in Jaipur got together on this special day at Jal Mahal. The witnessed three special occasions - Christmas, Tulsi Diwas and Geeta Jayanti. There was a lot of open littering on the stretch across this spectacular tourist spot. The volunteers did a cleanup and collected around 25 kg of waste, mostly plastic in just two hours. The trash also included masks and gloves, which they collected separately.  Are you planning to do a cleanup in your neighborhood? Share your pictures with us and we will post them on our platforms. 

DATE: 20-Dec-2020 NO. OF VOLUNTEERS = 10 TRASH COLLECTED = 25 kg The residents of AG 1 block in Vikas Puri volunteered last Sunday to clean a park in their neighbourhood. The volunteers including two sweepers collected 25 kg of waste, mostly plastic from the park and also from a compost pit in the park. They collected the plastic waste and other recyclables such as glass and metal separately, and sold them to a scrap dealer, thus, ensuring that the waste entered the right chain. Such collective initiatives attempt to create awareness against littering in the community. Are you planning to do a cleanup in your neighbourhood? Share your pictures with us and we would love to post them.

70+ more saplings added! We are reusing waste plastic packets as grow bags to set up our own nursery of native trees. Our volunteers added 70+ bakain saplings to our green bank. This nursery will help us become ‘atmanirbhar’ (self-reliant). We’ll be using them in our plantation drives.

50+ more saplings added! We are reusing waste plastic packets as grow bags to set up our own nursery of native trees. Our volunteers added 50+ bakain saplings to our green bank. This nursery will help us become ‘atmanirbhar’ (self-reliant). We’ll be using them in our plantation drives.

50+ bakain saplings added! We are reusing waste plastic packets as grow bags to set up our own nursery of native trees. Our volunteers added 50+ bakain saplings to our green bank. This nursery will help us become ‘atmanirbhar’ (self-reliant). We’ll be using them in our plantation drives.

80+ neem/ bakain saplings added! We are reusing waste plastic packets as grow bags to set up our own nursery of native trees. Our volunteers added 80+ neem/ bakain saplings to our green bank. This nursery will help us become ‘atmanirbhar’ (self-reliant). We’ll be using them in our plantation drives.

Taking care of saplings regularly is more important than the plantation itself. Our volunteers ensure that our saplings are never devoid of water or the required nutrients.  Many of our volunteers are making compost from kitchen waste at their homes. This final product after one-two months of patience is a great nutrition for the saplings and ensures their good growth.

Ongoing celebrations to our sixth! Some of our volunteers planted mango, jamun and banyan tree saplings in their vicinity. They have been raising jamun and mango saplings at their homes while the banyan sapling was extracted from a wall. They will water these transplanted saplings regularly. We are overwhelmed with such environmentally conscious celebrations! If you've done something similar, share your pics and videos!

We turned six this week and some of our volunteers celebrated it by organizing a cleanup at Jal Mahal, Jaipur. They collected trash from the road to Jal Mahal, which is prone to littering by the tourists to this place. We are overwhelmed with such environmentally conscious celebrations! If you've done something similar, share your pics and videos!

 WE TURN 6! Today marks our group's sixth anniversary. While we are locked in because of Covid19, our excitement knows no bounds. Yes, we have our own constraints, we can't conduct a mass scale cleanup or a plantation drive to commemorate this day. But we've been encouraging individual-level activities. One of our volunteers conducted a cleanup in a park in his vicinity. You too can join the celebration with a similar act. We might be socially-distanced but we are in this together! To many more of such days to come!

Yes, covid19 has certainly curtailed our activities but it has failed to decimate the spirit of our volunteers. We encouraged our volunteers to do individual-level cleanups. Even a small spot was good. And that too only if they were comfortable doing so. Some responded well to the call of a covid-safe cleanup drive. So, we had volunteers doing their bit spread across geographies. Few cleanup up in Hauz Khas, Delhi. Few were in Jaipur so they cleaned up there. And there were a few in Janak Puri, Delhi, who not only cleaned up but also planted native trees after the cleanup. Our volunteers planted 60+ native tree saplings such as pilkhan, jamun and amaltas in a park. As always, we will not forget them after the plantation. In fact, we will visit them regularly for regular watering and maintenance.  You can also do a cleanup in your vicinity on a regular basis. Also, plant and nurture saplings near your homes. More the number of people doing it, more the trees and thus, healthier will...

Covid19 has limited our outdoor activities but not our volunteers' zeal to their bit for the environment in whatever way they can. Another one of our volunteers has set up a small nursery at her home with major occupants being neem and tomato saplings. We are reusing milk packets and collecting seeds from tomatoes and nimolis (neem seeds) from trees. You too can do this at your own place. If a lot of us are able to do it, we will be able to have a great bank of native tree saplings for subsequent years... all with zero waste! How to set up a zero waste nursery? You don't have to buy planters. Just REUSE your milk and other plastic packets - prevent them from ending up in the landfills Collect the seeds of mango, jamun and other fruits/ vegetables at home and sow them in the packets Going for a morning walk? Seek out for neem seeds and peepal saplings and plant them You can also make compost/ fertilizer from your kitchen waste and use them for your saplings; your plants will lov...

Did you know that the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has begun penalizing RWAs that are not giving segregated waste to the waste collectors? If not, it’s ok. Many aren’t aware. But this caught the attention of one of our volunteers whose neighbourhood falls under the SDMC. And we believe it’s a great opportunity to push various resident welfare associations (RWA) even further. We have been pursuing the RWA of block AG 1 in Vikas Puri in west Delhi. Fortunately, the news of SDMC penalizing RWAs acted as a wake up call and things seem to be falling into place. We were requested to conduct a workshop on the same discussing various aspects of waste management, segregation at source, its increased significance in covid times and role of waste collectors. Also, we have been asked to help with the roadmap and execution of the same. In the coming few days we are going to use all our learning from our Sarita Vihar experience to replicate the same model here, which involved educating t...

11 SAPLINGS ADDED TO OUR NEW PLANTATION SITE In our efforts to transform a barren plot of land into micro-forested area , our volunteers added 11 native tree saplings to the already existing saplings. So, now a total of 40+ amaltas, neem, peepal, aam, gutel, kadipatta, gudal, jamun, pilkhan, siras and baheda young ones stand there to grow up as healthy adults. We were joined by a group of ardent kids who helped us with the entire drive starting from planting saplings to fencing them with the help of sticks and finally watering all of them - the earlier ones too! As we always say - we take care of our planted saplings regularly.  Our volunteers will keep visiting the site regularly to keep a tab on the existing saplings and also introduce more of them. Till then, we hope they stay safe and sound within the boundaries of the wall. 

It always feels good to be back on the ground digging the pits, providing the newbies with new habitat and fencing to protect them from outsiders. Our volunteers took further strides at our new site by planting 34 native tree saplings including neem, aam, gudal, jamun, pilkhan, baheda, peepal, kadipatta, siras, amalats and gutel. This variety also considers biodiversity!  This site is a barren plot of land, which we aim to transform into a dense micro-forested area. The active involvement of local communities boosts our spirit of continuing our work here and greenifies this stretch. We are self-funding this activity for the labour work required. With the current covid19 pandemic, we are keeping the scale of our drives to a limited number of volunteers. But all of us can take such initiatives at our homes or neighborhoods so that the environment keeps getting its dose of love and care too! Catch the action here:

Covid19 may have decimated our scale of activities but not our spirits. On 15-Aug-2020, two of our volunteers planted native tree saplings in their neighbourhood. They have been regularly planting and nurturing saplings in the stretch for more than two weeks now. With the addition of around 10 saplings yesterday including mango, peepal, kadi patta, baheda, arjun, siras; the total count so far is 24. And it won't stop here! There is a lot to add with their continuous efforts. You can do this too... Look for a spot near your place and plant some native tree saplings. Also, don't forget to water them regularly. You can also raise saplings at your homes so that we have a great bank of saplings to plant for next year's monsoon. Let's not allow this pandemic to put a hold on our environmental responsibilities! Let's keep doing our bit wherever we are!