Environment protection programmes are as important as the academic
curriculum at VIBGYOR High, a school in Goregaon. Keeping in mind
various pressing issues related to environment protection, the school
has been taking effective steps to facilitate an environmentfriendly
campus.
They have initiated multiple campaigns like ‘Go Blue’, to save water, ‘Waste Management’, where compost pits have been installed to control school waste and ‘Anti-Plastic’, where students have taken to clean the beaches of Mumbai, to raise awareness among students.
As a part of the waste management initiative, VIBGYOR collaborated with non-governmental organisation Daily Dump to install compost pits in their campus that help recycle food waste into manure.
This is used as fertiliser in the school garden.
These compost pits are situated behind the canteen, where most of the food waste is generated.
“Students are taught to segregate their leftovers into wet and dry waste,” said Jerry Paul, manager, administration, VIBGYOR.
They have initiated multiple campaigns like ‘Go Blue’, to save water, ‘Waste Management’, where compost pits have been installed to control school waste and ‘Anti-Plastic’, where students have taken to clean the beaches of Mumbai, to raise awareness among students.
As a part of the waste management initiative, VIBGYOR collaborated with non-governmental organisation Daily Dump to install compost pits in their campus that help recycle food waste into manure.
This is used as fertiliser in the school garden.
These compost pits are situated behind the canteen, where most of the food waste is generated.
“Students are taught to segregate their leftovers into wet and dry waste,” said Jerry Paul, manager, administration, VIBGYOR.
As a part of the pilot project started in November, a total of
1,331 kilograms of compostable waste has been collected till February
this year.
“Owing to the success of the compost pits in managing food waste, the pits are now being set up across all 28 schools of the VIBGYOR chain situated across the country,” said Paul.
Following the footsteps of corporates, the school has set up a Students Social Responsibility Council (SSRC) for classes 9 and above. “It is our collective endeavour to create awareness and sensitise our students about the anti- plastic drive with the focus to make our school free of one-time-useplastic,”saidTanya Gulrajani, principal, VIBGYOR High.
One such initiative taken by the SSRC is the cleaning up of Versova beach.
The school has been working on its beach clean-up project with Afroz Shah, a lawyer and beach clean-up crusader, for a year.
Every alternate Saturday, about 200 students of the school gather on the beach and collect marine debris.
Source: Hindustan Times dated 23 April 2018
Link: http://htsyndication.com/htsportal/ht-mumbai/article/this-goregaon-school-is-grooming-eco-warriors-to-protect-environment/27049707
“Owing to the success of the compost pits in managing food waste, the pits are now being set up across all 28 schools of the VIBGYOR chain situated across the country,” said Paul.
Following the footsteps of corporates, the school has set up a Students Social Responsibility Council (SSRC) for classes 9 and above. “It is our collective endeavour to create awareness and sensitise our students about the anti- plastic drive with the focus to make our school free of one-time-useplastic,”saidTanya Gulrajani, principal, VIBGYOR High.
One such initiative taken by the SSRC is the cleaning up of Versova beach.
The school has been working on its beach clean-up project with Afroz Shah, a lawyer and beach clean-up crusader, for a year.
Every alternate Saturday, about 200 students of the school gather on the beach and collect marine debris.
Source: Hindustan Times dated 23 April 2018
Link: http://htsyndication.com/htsportal/ht-mumbai/article/this-goregaon-school-is-grooming-eco-warriors-to-protect-environment/27049707
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