Workshops

Creating awareness about ill-effects of deforestation at Shiksha Niketan Primary School Bangalore

Theme: Environment Awareness

Venue: Shiksha Niketan Primary School, Nandini Layout, Bangalore.

Date: 19th June, 2014

We kicked off our workshop series with the lovely kids at Shiksha Niketan Primary School, a school for the underprivileged, in Bangalore. A set of 60+ super-enthusiastic, super-chirpy and surprisingly quick-witted 5 and 6 year-olds. The workshop aimed to make kids, and through them their parents, aware about the effects of deforestation on forest animals; sensitize kids to the number of things for which we use paper in our daily lives and ways of reducing the use of paper and wood; all this done through the medium of storytelling. We used the story of the cute Toothy from our own website, written by Poornima. The kids had fun dancing like peacocks, trumpeting like elephants and soaring like eagles. Their shrieks and boos scared the saw-men away. The storytelling session was followed by a craft activity session where the kids decorated cloth bags, the eco-friendly, non-polluting, sustainable alternative to paper bags. The bags were sourced from Satthvam, a remarkable effort by Vidya Ramamurthy at upscaling and recycling cloth and paper. More details and pictures of the workshop can be found on our Facebook page.