Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Presentation at St. Anne's High School

Deplasticize your life: From Aksa cleanup presentation at St. Anne's High school, Malad

We’ve always loved going to Aksa beach. Aksa is a 2 km stretch of sand situated in the northern suburb called Malad. Malad has access to a lot of beaches; Marve, Manori, Aksa, Erangal, Madh to name a few. Marve was the commercial beach that everybody visited until the late ’90, by when the pollution and fishing trawlers killed off the beach. What’s left of Marve is a little section of land that is used by people to get into ferries that take them to Manori / Gorai.
This then diverted attention of the masses to Aksa, which was largely untouched, thanks to its reputation as a killer beach. Along with the inflow of ‘tourists’, came the filth.

The beach that we loved started to look like a dumping ground. We decided to do something about it.

We had seen and read about school children involved in cleanliness drives, and so we decided to go back to our alma mater, St. Anne’s High School, Malad to see if we can convince the principal and the students to aid us in our quest.

We went to school to meet the principal Mrs. Annie Braganza, who was more than happy to see us give back to society. She directed us to Mrs. Seema Ramdas who is in charge of the Nature Club at St. Anne’s High School. We met and discussed our plan of cleaning up Aksa beach.

Karthik has the audience enthralled: From Aksa cleanup presentation at St. Anne's High school, Malad

We needed to motivate and educate the students. A presentation was planned and delivered. Armed with a few charts and a slideshow we presented to an audience of about 100 enthusiastic 8th graders.

The presenters: Shobhit, Nishant, Karthik and Primus (below): From Aksa cleanup presentation at St. Anne's High school, Malad

The half hour session hit the spot. We got a resounding yes when we asked if they were interested in cleaning up the beach.

HOW YOU CAN HELP: From Aksa cleanup presentation at St. Anne's High school, Malad

From Aksa cleanup presentation at St. Anne's High school, Malad

The big picture: Aksa cleanup presentation at St. Anne's High school, Malad

- Primus, edited by Karthik

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