2. THE PROBLEM
Our school is in the heart of the city. We have
less plants and trees in our school campus
and the neighborhood. We wanted to make
the area greener.
Planting more trees and plants purifies the
air, gives shade and home to many birds and
animals and makes the place beautiful. This
would be a wonderful contribution to Mother
Nature.
3. WHAT COULD BE DONE?
We thought of getting a number of plants and
tree saplings from a near by nursery and
plant them in our campus and neighborhood.
Spread the message and make people
aware of the necessity of more plants and
trees.
Make sure that the saplings planted are
taken care of well.
4. We had to buy 40-50 plant/tree saplings, the
pots, soil.
We convinced our school authorities of the
need. The school agreed to give us the soil
and pots.
5. OUR PLAN
We came up with an idea- to run a food court
in our unit. The food court would have
different varieties of snacks, drinks and
traditional food stuffs.
To ensure success we advertised for days.
Most of the students and teachers agreed
that they would have their breakfast at our
food court on the day.
6. We decided to make a good profit on the
food stuffs sold and make use of it towards
getting the plants and maintaining them.
Our plan was like this:
Stage one: get plants for school campus
Stage two: plants for our neighborhood
Stage three: plants for some
schools/orphanage/old age homes in city.
7. We planned a tree-buddy for each sapling
planted. That is, a student will be responsible
for taking care of the plant till he leaves the
school.
We believe that trees also have emotions.
The friend for the tree is supposed to watch
his tree grow, make sure that its needs are
met with. This way a new sense of
attachment develops between the tree and
the student.
8. In the next stages, the project would be
extended to neighborhood where volunteers
would be given a chance to be a tree-buddy.
In the stage three students/elderly people
would become the tree-buddies. Thus, the
tree-buddies learn to contribute for the
planet.
The project would bring in like minded people
who believe that every form of life on the
planet is interconnected.
9. IMPLEMENTATION
Stage one was implemented between Oct 7-
14.
The food court was arranged and it was a big
success. The profit was used to get the
saplings.
We identified 36 volunteers who wished to
become tree-buddies.
The saplings, pots and soil was brought. The
planting was done on Oct.9th.
10. The tree-buddies are working with enthusiasm
to make sure that the saplings are taken care of.
Our stage two is expected to be done in the
month of November. Other classes of our unit
are coming up with ideas of organizing food
courts, tuck shops, fun-fairs etc to arrange
money for the next stage. We are also looking
for volunteers outside the school who would like
to be tree-buddies.
25. The real joy and happiness in our life comes
when we make others happy.
A simple initiative to make the planet better
by:
Dhyey , Darshit, Umang (6E), Divyang,
Sujaan (8E).
