SAVE SOUTHERN AVENUE 2009

SAVE SOUTHERN AVENUE 2009
6112 kgs!
(82 kgs + 137 kgs + 506 kgs + 117 kgs + 513 kgs + 730 kgs + 915 kgs + 1000 kgs app.+ 1492 kgs)*


Much has happened since our last report.

Three highlights:

* Members of our team (ranging from a nine year old to a 45 year old) made a presentation to the mayor last week
* Less than 48 hours later, the mayor sent in two trucks to help us lift concrete garbage (our erstwhile nemesis).
* On Sunday morning, 25 students from Akshar joined in and we lifted a record 1492 tonnes!

So what is the big message? One: Big things begin to happen when you just hang in there.

Our forthcoming agenda:

Regroup on Thursday, 26 March 2009, diagonally across Birla Academy )
Regroup on Saturday, 28 March 2009, on the same stretch as Menoka Cinema to clear concrete debris and load on to the KMC truck
Co-ordinate with the KMC for help with soil and plants so that we can green the one km stretch on Sarat Chatterjee Avenue

This is how you can help:

Join us to pick the litter. It is more fun that you think!
Do you know any young adult in your house, building or neighbourhood who would be interested to help? Send him / her our numbers.
Can you identify some really dirty spots (full of plastic and paper waste) in the city that we can possibly clean? Lead us!

Please contact Armaan Sood at 98304 33663.

Be a part of Kolkata’s solution!

* Our collected waste has comprised wine bottles, hair combs, ice cream wrappers, gutka pouches, cigarette packets, plastic bags, trouser belts, toothbrushes, ID cards, condoms, sanitary pads, shirts, coconuts, medicine bottles, toothpaste tubes, cigarettes, bus tickets, polyurethane strips, spoons, shoe soles, running shoes, cement bags, purses, ice cream cups, bidi pouches etc.