RB-PFP Movement Reaches Shishu Mandir School
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The essence of Soulbath Peace Foundation’s Raj Bhowmik Plastic Free Planet supported by IBM’s Go Green Kids activity kit today reached an orphanage Sishu Mandir where 60 children of age group 12 to 18 got to get their share of knowledge on how to make and maintain our Planet as a more beautiful place to live in for us and for the future generations. All the children ready to learn and act were seated as they began to understand the necessity of waste segregation and the role of the 3 R’s Reduce,Reuse and Recycle in achieving this.
The workshop was a very interactive session where the children exchanged their understanding as they brainstormed on why and how they need to contribute to the society. All of them unanimously agreed to the point that we need to eliminate plastic as it causes potential arm to the plants , underground water and animals as they mistake it to be food. The need of Reduce was discussed in terms of the minimization of usage of plastic, minimize the use of paper so as to save the trees etc. The concept of reuse was introduced and was explained in terms of reusing the books, papers, clothes and how clothes can be converted into cloth bags was explained showing the examples of RB PFP bags was discussed. The children came up with suggestions of making door mats, curtains with the old clothes. Then the concept of Recycle was introduced citing the example of how companies like IBM recycle the parts of laptops was discussed. The need to recycle in order to minimize the resource wastage was discussed in detail. By the end of this discussion children were very aware of their next steps of action like stopping the usage of plastic in the school, minimizing the paper usage in the school ,reusing books and clothes as they promised to bring it into action.
No work is complete without empowerment of the individual and this was exactly where the CORPORitual values of living were introduced to empower each child seated in the room. It was a heart touching experience that the children shared after the workshop as they got connected to the CORPORitual essence. As the children were from varied background they connected very deeply to the C-VOL 3 Practice compassion and C-VOL 4 Forgive and bury the past as few children were touched when a small exercise was done helping them to forgive all that cause pain and hurt in their lives and move on. They could relate how an act of compassion changed their living and how they can change the society with the same act. As this was discussed in the context of the environment and how compassionate and grateful we need to be to our Planet and not dump it with waste they thoroughly understood and realized it deeply.The workshop was concluded with a very special form of thanks to the management of IBM, Sri RajBhowmik ,Founder ,Soulbath Peace Foundation and Ms.Hella Mundhra, Founder,Sishu Mandir.
This was a wholesome workshop in its own essence as it touched all the aspects of IBM’s Go Green kids and Soulbath Peace Foundation’s Plastic Free Planet initiatives. Thank you Soulbath Peace Foundation for helping connect to another sector of the society today.