We cleaned the Government School in Nithari on April 11, 2015
- FLASHBACK!
On 5th April Sunday afternoon, when I visited to Nithari Village, to supervise an educational counselling, conducted by Somi (Project Head, Internal Learning and Educational Counselling, HelpingBrainz.Org), me and Vimlesh Aunty walked through the silent verandahs of the lonely government school of Nithari, feeling the naturalism where the underpriviledged children undergo their elementary education, feeling disappointed after seeing the stagnant drainage systems and mosquito generating ponds, uncleansed classrooms/assembly ground/gardens, which the so called government ‘servants’ are not interested to clean upon.
I felt the helplessness of a child to express his right for sanitation, cleanliness and hygiene in the silent school. ‘How can a child study in such an environment’? I witnessed a lady village head’s urge for clean environment, however also understood the lack of cooperation of the government officials.
When I heard Vimlesh Aunty, requesting someone to clean the school, I stopped her and said ‘HelpingBrainz will clean this school for you’, I mentioned to her that, ‘it’s my wish to have my little siblings learn in a clean environment, though their teachers to be honest don’t want’.
- THE GAMES HERE!
I immediately telephoned, my friend Swati (VP, Environmental & Elderly Care Projects – HelpingBrainz.Org) – to design the programme, Abhinav Vikash (Abhinav works for HCLT Foundations, he’s one whose heart beats for the community equally) and Purnoor (Our designing spearhead) and we fixed the event (Cleanliness Drive) in 10 mins, and gave heartwarming confirmation to the village-head to support her in this mission to clean the school.
CLEANLINESS DRIVE ON 11TH April 2015 at 12:30 PM, at Government School Nithari
We took brooms, yes we all took brooms, spades etc with a mission to clean the school.
- The entire school premise was swept and garbage transported to a dumping ground,
- The school garden was cleaned,
- The school verandahs was washed,
- The drainage systems was opened and stagnant mud was removed,
- The school’s water pumping system was cleaned,
- After all created an awareness of cleanliness among the children.
Who all joined hands for this noble cause:-
- A team of wonderful children from Government of School, who will be awarded with “Certificate of Participation” by HelpingBrainz.Org
- Vimlesh Sharma, Gram Pradhan Nithari
- Ajit Mahapatra, Swati Saini, Shally Arora, Kumar Madhuraj, Gitanshu Khurana, Pankaj Jha and Yedhu from HelpingBrainz.Org
- Abhinav Vikash, Arvind Kumar Singh, Safder Wahab from HCL
- Sohanveer Tyagi from The-Change Team
Our sincere thanks to Vimlesh Aunty, Children of the School, Volunteers, Purnoor for the designs and Vineeth (for masks and gloves)
Some Artifacts
- A tree-plantation campaign would happen shortly in the school!
- Org, HCLT Foundations and would be together distributing dustbins to all the residents of the village and making it compulsory for them to throw the garbage in the bins, thereby ensuring cleanliness.
