Campaigns

Paathshala Initiative

 

Prakriti SuratnagarEducation (Equal Opportunity for Urban Poor) : With centers running at Sukhrali village, Surat Nagar, and a centre coming up in Wazirabad we are currently providing  Non – Formal education to around 200 children with plans to provide the same to over 1,000 children by next year.

The project is simple, we prepare the child for formal education and as soon as she/he is ready for the formal education, we get her/him admitted to school and ensure that they continue the studies smoothly. The center in Surat nagar and Sukhrali village is running for over 3 years now and has seen many success stories in the short span of time.

The project called, “Paathshala Initiative” is a step to educate the children from backward sections of society, and empowering them to lead a better life in the future. To take this campaign further, we are starting one more school, the centre will be a school in Wazirabad village supporting over 200 children, from Rag Picker families in phase 1 and over 500 in Phase 2. These children lead a life of poverty and malnourishment, often deprived of even the basic amenities like proper clothes and shelter. The majority of these children come from Rag Picker families, which are bound in the cruel cycle of chronic poverty.
 
The details of the project are as under:

1.       Admission of children (filling an admission form with two photographs. ID proofs of parents of Indian citizenship, Permanent address and temporary address).

2.       After deciding on the number of students, books, stationary and other requirements are arranged.

3.       Children pay a nominal fee of Rs. 50 - Rs. 100 per month in which they get all the books, stationary, sweets, gifts/prizes, teaching facility, recreational activities like One movie per week and field trips/picnics.

4.       The children are taught by teachers trained out of the community (paid between Rs. 1500/- to 3500/-) and the seniors (class 10-12) by professional teachers.

5.       Monthly health check up camps are organized for the children and their families.

The number of children we expect to reach, from the project, by the end of the year are over 1,000 and we have applications for about 500 more from nearby areas. (The potential in some areas is more than 4,000 children)

 

The Go Green Magic

GoGreen is all about bringing together the efforts, directed towards making the earth a greener and healthier place, by the individuals who have a determination for this good cause.

We, here at Prakriti believe in the concept of ‘I to I’, i.e. Individual to International. We believe that distributed small scale efforts by individuals around the world, though highly appreciated, fall short of the need of the hour, when it comes to saving our planet. GoGreen hence is an initiative to consolidate these efforts at the global level.

Awareness along with Action is a key part of this campaign. What all can we do, what all should be done, how small efforts make a big change and how exactly can we put our bit in bringing about a revolution that will change the world for good. To bring about awareness with action, here are a few initiatives we plan to undertake:

*      Intensive Plantation

*      No to Polythene Campaign

*      No to Crackers Campaign

*      Use of Public Transport etc

 We hereby humbly hold this green banner and implore everyone who has his heart at the right place to attach to it and walk hand in hand with us in this journey on the green path. We look forward to this brotherhood.

 

Project: Greening Gurgaon Project (GGP)

gurgaonLets make Gurgaon a better place


RWA coordination Team.
5 members and 1 manager,  job to coordinate with various RWAs to be with prakriti, make them update abt our achievements


Society’s Green Manager:
2 people per housing society or neighbourhood, will coordinate all the activities of prakriti in their society, will assess the environement in society and raise alarm if something is wrong and will be leaders in the change making process, work on weekends and holidays amy create a team with others interested

Fund raisers
Shall be working for raising funds for operations of prakriti

The Band for change
Musicians and bands welcome, if wants to perform for sake of community service

Environment Impact Assessment Team

Carbon FootPrint Calculation Team

Envi-Fest organisors

The Pictorial team: shall be clicking photographs across city on various eye openers

The Market-team: shall be responsible for convensing the market associaltion for bringing th green change

Mall Watchers: will coordinate with the city’s malls to convence them to be Green and eco friendly place to be not mere eco-resource guzzlers

School campign Corrdinators: interested in working with school students, we welcome indivuals ready to work in team prakriti to work in team for greent the school first programmes.

Tie-up People: will be given job for tieing up with NGOs and other organisations, coporates, companies join us in our campaigns

City watchers: will seek issues in city and will act as reporters for Prakriti..

Media coordinators: will be given task of making sure that all the activities are covered in media and all the issues are taken up properly

Volunteers: short of time but want to make a  difference join up as volunteers

 

Join Green School Program

green-earth-picGSP (Green School Program) was initiated by CSE and now being extended by Prakriti, particularly to Gurgaon. It is our preliminary effort and first step towards making Gurgaon a Prakritik-city (an Eco-city) and spread environment awareness in Gurgaon. GSP aims to gain momentum for environment management plans and embed them into schools.  To us it’s a cinch that educating schools’ children and equipping teachers regarding environment or rendering the Environmental Education program in schools will fetch our efforts substantially.   We noticed that spreading awareness in context to environment is not feasible until a pragmatic outlook is provided, for this purpose we are keen on using a tool like GSP. GSP will help the schools to audit their school premises, figure out their ecological footprint and find ways to reduce it under our assistance.
Why Green school program?

Environmental issues are of major concern today, and the only feasible solution is Sustainable Development.  But policy makers or scientists could not come up with a firm definition and definite deadline to Sustainable development. All we understand by the term is living sustainably, fulfilling our requirements and conserve our natural environment. GSP may not solve all our environmental problems but would help us rendering Environment Education and forming more responsible citizens and raise our concerns for environment.
 
GSP’s Key Features

Self-audits will include assessment of the following Five elements:

•    Water

Will help in assessing water use in the school’s premises and, build understanding for importance of water-conservation and, adopting to water conservation practices

•    Air

Will help in assessing effects on outdoor and indoor air quality and, find ways to reduce emissions
 
•    Land

This element focuses on mapping school’s green areas, identify biodiversity and understand ecological and economic value of this resource

•    Energy

This involves auditing sources of Energy, consumption of Energy and, find ways to cut-down wastage of energy

•    Waste

This will involve estimation of waste generation by the school and; offer ways and means to reduce by segregation, recycle and reuse

Click here to express interest or join the revolution  (please mention Green School Program in the subject)

 

iExtended - Extend yourself to the Earth

iextended-campaignSaving evironment culture should start from secure environment of our home, thats what over 70% of people set in our serving.

So this is it: I-EXTENDED, extend yourself towards environment, be a part of nature.

This comapaign aims to change life of over 25000 families in Gurgaon initially.

Rules are simple:

You save water,electricity

You say bye-bye to polyethylene

You grow trees at your home.

Live organic, make people smile and we will reward you.

We are going to take your name and your families name to every individual in the city as a testimonial. Show them and ask if they can why cant you? so join in and lets make a difference.

For details just email us using the contact form. Click here

 
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