Regular volunteering/ shramdaan can take us a long way!

We all wish for a clean and healthy environment but few actually come forward to actually work towards it. What we need now is more citizens coming together to volunteer in order to protect our environment as well as ourselves.

This seven-year old named Jannat has been cleaning the famous Dal lake at Srinagar for past two years. Her efforts were first recorded two years ago: https://tinyurl.com/ybrrgy2c

Now Jannat has a chapter reserved by her name in school textbooks in Hyderabad: https://tinyurl.com/y75hxbdb

Regular volunteering/ shramdaan at our individual level is the key to solve environment-related problems. We at We Mean To Clean are doing our bit by volunteering for native tree plantation drives, cleanups and waste management awareness campaigns.

Let's do what we can!

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