Say No to Plastic Bags

Our story of Change Satya Bharti School, Dhikwar, Neemrana,

Alwar, Rajasthan,

Bharti Foundation

The change we plan to bring about in the community:

Say No to Plastic Bags

• Bharti Foundation

– Bharti Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Bharti Group Companies.

– The Foundation aims to help underprivileged children and young people of our country realize their potential.

• Satya Bharti School Program

– The Satya Bharti School Program is the flagship program of Bharti Foundation.

– It aims to deliver free quality education to underprivileged children, with special focus on the girl child across rural India.

– The program goal is to establish 500 Primary and 50 Senior Schools reaching out to over 200,000 students

– The promise of this large scale program, through its operation, is to create a replicable, scalable and holistic model of quality education in rural India

– Present Operational Status:

• Number of Schools Operational: 236

• States of Operation: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh & Tamil Nadu

• Number of Students Enrolled: Over 30,000

Introduction

• Geographical Location:

Geographical Location

Dhikwar is situated at a distance of 22 km from NH-8 at the west of Satya Bharti’s District office at Neemrna. People of this village are dependent on agriculture. Some of the villagers are having their own stone cutter factories. With a total population of 1757 In 262 no. of households.

About the Community

About the Community

• Cultural Background:– Majority of the population

belongs to Hindu community .They followed Hindu rituals and traditions.

– Dominant Caste in Village is Kumhar & Rajput.

– The cultural dress of community is long Kurta & Dhoti/ pant & shirts, for men and women use to wear Ghagra & Odhni.

We ‘Felt’:

• We are habituated of using plastics in our day to day life. It may due to our ignorance or due to our avoidance. But as a whole it disturbs our eco-system.

• We felt, this platform given by joy for giving can be a real start to initiate a step towards an eco-friendly environment. We can create awareness on replacing plastic bags with various options like paper bags by involving the community.

• ‘A plastic free environment’.

• Promoting paper bags and decreasing the use of Plastic as possible.

We ‘Imagined’:

• Awareness on benefits of using paper bags, consequences of using plastic bags.

• Other option to avoid plastics Bags.

• Door to door Campaign and discussion with villagers.

• Make them aware about benefits of using paper bags rather than plastics.

• Put our hands together for cleaning common place of the villagers, and instantiate a step towards Eco-friendly environment.

We ‘Did’:

• Street play performed by the students in the village.

• Students and teachers dig out Plastic waste .

• Community people have understood the benefits of using paper bags and avoid using plastic bags.

• Community members involved and contributed their efforts to clean the common places to make a plastic free environment.

• All of the participants in our joy for giving campaign have signed on the common memorandum and took oath to use paper bags and support eco-friendly environment.

Impact on Community:

• We have promised not to promote plastic bags as individual can make a big movement.

• Children feel proud to be a part of this campaign and become change agents in the community.

• Staff members gained the confidence to deal with community problems which is totally different from daily class room teaching.

• They are curious to do such activity in near future and willing to do something different from their daily routine work.

Impact on Us:

Experience of Community Members & Teachers:

• Community members: - ”Plastic ke bina aksar dikkat hoti thi,

khas tor pe jab bazaar se kuchh lana ho, lekin school ke bachho ne hame iske nuksanon ke bare me bataya to uske baad to ab plastic bag ke istemal se dar lagta hai. Dukan se saman kagaj ya kapde ke bag main bhi laya ja sakta hai. Isse hamara parivesh aur paltu jivon ko nuksan nahi hoga.”

Satyaveer Sharma

Community member

• Teachers: - ”Plastic ke bag hatao, kagaj ke lifafe apnao.” Ye naara agar sahi maino main hum aur hamare aas paas rahne wale apna le to ek naya paribartan laya ja sakta hai. Iske liye hame hi suruat karni padegi”.

Ashok Sharma

Teacher, Dhikwar

The Road Ahead…..

• Periodic and timely follow-up through:

- Door to door visit.

- PTM.

- Individual data keeping.• Regular counseling to every stake holders.

- Students.

- Parents.

- Community members.

- Community key persons.• Trying to impart information on making:

- replacements options for plastic bags.

The Road Ahead…..(in the next 3 months)

Students Participating in the Contest:

# State District SchoolNo. of Students

ParticipatingName of Student

Class

 

Rajasthan

Alwar

SBGPS, Dhikwar 10 Anita Bai VI

       Poonam VI 

      Priya VII

      Manisha VII

      Pooja yogi VIII

       Rinki Kumari VIII

      Sunita Bai VIII

Pinki raj VIII

Sarita VIII

Karina VIII

Name of Mentor Teacher: Ashok Kumar

Thank you