This is the story of thousands of kids studying in government schools in Bengaluru. The first-generation school-goers. The children of migrant and daily wage labourers who were empowered with wings to soar to their dreams, by city-based NGO, Dream School Foundation.
This orphanage houses 30 children, 27 boys, and three girls, between 5 and 18 years old. They figured that this was the right number of people and located at a distance that would make the most sense.
Scheduled from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. with breaks every two hours, the team began the first day by cleaning up the school playgrounds and retrieved over 100 bags of trash.
Spearheaded by the students of Anjuman-I-Islam A A Khatkhatay English secondary school in Vashi, this unique e-waste management initiative has been christened ‘Contribute your E-waste to educate a child’.
While the body of the pen is built from plantain leaf, papaya leaf stem, coconut leaf and castor stem, a nib is fixed at one end of the stem. The other end is sealed using maida starch which holds the ink.