On August 15, 2011 Bhumi had a blast for its 5th anniversary and so did We, the children. An anna called Hari had explained the akkas and annas who teach us about a competition- Design For Change! Our akka came and asked us what all problems we face in our day to day activity and how we would change it. All of us in our class said different things, akka wrote it in computer and sent it to DFC. We told many problems. About growing trees in all houses in our area and helping them in watering it regularly. About how our father's drink and abuse us. When we tell our fathers they don't listen so we planned to make a powerpoint presentation and show it to all of them. Most of us discussed about our environment, we know that ozone layer has a hole and that we should reduce pollution, usage of plastic and recycle garbage. So we all wanted to stop using plastic and have a vermicompost in our houses for degradable garbage! So having readso many ideas, you will be wondering what we actually did right?? Here it goes,
We decided to do each task for each month. Having only one month for DFC finals we decided to choose "Protect the Environment" topic. Latha akka from Ethiraj college came and taught us how to make paper bags. We decided to make many of these and distribute to shops near us. We realised that the paper bags we make can only carry light weight things so next week we made stronger bags with the help of Hariharan anna and went to shops near buy.
We got sooper response from shop uncles. One shopkeeper even gave us chocolates for our bags. They tried putting heavier things(upto 2kgs) and found that it worked!! Yaay!
Now whenever we or our parents go they give us items in our bags and we have also got more orders. Thank you Bhumi!
