Our volunteer Gaurav Garg representing us at a four-day workshop by the U.S. Forest Service . USFS has setup a network of NGOs and volunteer groups across Delhi NCR. We are one of the fortunate ones to be included in the program. The program endeavours to facilitate sharing of best practices pertaining to native tree plantation and waste management. A great opportunity for us to learn from the likes of Peepal Baba of Give Me Trees Trust, who is anyway a mentor to us. Other entities include I Am Gurgaon, Sow Good Farms, Mission 100 Crore Trees, Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and Swechha.

HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY! Let's fulfill our constitutional duty towards our environment. It shall be the duty of every citizen of India to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers and wildlife, and to have compassion for living creatures. - Article 48A and Article 51A(g) of Indian Constitution Our constitution tells us, the citizens of India to protect and improve the environment. How many of us are doing that? Our volunteers, for sure, are. Our watering teams gathered at Sainik Vihar and Sangam Vihar this weekend. It was good to be back with our saplings after two weeks of watering break, all thanks to the rain gods for showering their blessings on the little ones. The volunteers watered the plants and also removed weed surrounding the saplings. Our Sangam Vihar team also cleared some plastic waste from the vicinity of the plants and helped them get a cleaner environment to flourish. This Republic Day, let’s take a deep

In our continuing attempts at Sarita Vihar towards waste management, we have now complete feedback model from both both sides - waste collectors as well as residents. Thanks to our last weekend's workshop with the waste collectors' contractor of the area on the role of effective waste collection for proper waste management system. We're super excited to share that starting next month, only segregated waste shall be collected from the residents, which would be further directed to a nearby biogas plant setup recently. It'd thus reduce the burden on our landfills. Want to start waste segregation at your society? Don't worry! We're there to help. Visit http://wmtc.org.in

LET'S PREP UP FOR FUTURE No. of volunteers: 3 Households covered: 57 The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. – Robert Swan What do you see when you gaze out your window of future? A healthy and wealthy you enjoying the beautiful world with your family. Now roll-back in the present and look around you. Littered roads, heaps of garbage, polluted air! That's what we're surrounded with at present. The sooner that we start acting on it without waiting for others, the sooner we will make our world, our home a brighter place.  The residents of Sarita Vihar have started acting on it by segregating their household waste. Thanks to our volunteers that we have covered most of the households in our weekly awareness campaigns. It was good to see three dustbins in many homes when our volunteers went for awareness this weekend. We hope that this chain reaction of positive change keeps accelerating. Want to start waste

PED TO LAGAYA... #PaaniDiyaKya ? The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. – Nelson Henderson No. of volunteers = 10 Saplings watered = 187 Save trees, save life is not merely a slogan, it is a responsibility which should be followed by each and every person living on the Earth. Trees are a symbol of life on our planet and a natural abode to the marvellous wild animals. In a rapidly advancing world, where homo sapiens are grappling for themselves, trees are living for the benefit of all! It is high time that we stopped taking these precious gifts, that nature has bestowed us with, for granted.  The simplest way our volunteers have adopted to protect trees is to nurture the right from their nascent stage. Hence, following the weekly ritual of watering the native tree saplings that we planted, our watering teams were at Sangam Vihar, Sainik Vihar and Sarvapriya Vihar with their water cans. From carrying filled cans

CHANGE BEGINS WITH YOU Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy Everyone has an opinion on what is wrong with the world, yet few will do the work to improve their own lives. It's very easy to pass the baggage but it's very difficult to accept our own flaws. Minimizing our individual flaws... that's what the residents at Sarita Vihar are working on. It's been two months since we initiated waste management awareness in Sarita Vihar. And even after that we have been conducting door to door awareness on waste segregation. More than 300 houses have been covered so far and the response from residents is quite positive! Some already segregate and some are even composting their kitchen waste. Not just the residents, waste pickers are also collecting dry waste and wet waste separately. With the inauguration of biogas plant in vicinity, we aim to maximize the supply of segregated organic waste to the facil