Dear Annette , The same thing happens here too - people throw their garbage outside the bins provided by the municipality / panchayats even if the bins are empty ! And in areas where there are no bins you find garbage strewn along the roadsides , gutters and in the fields ! Regarding your English professor frm Xaviers , Ms Anne Menezes she is now in her late nineties ( still a spinster ) and is in a ' Home for the aged ' at Bodiem ( Tivim ) Regards Allwyn --- On Sun, 24/7/11, ANNETTE D'SOUZA <[email protected]> wrote:
From: ANNETTE D'SOUZA <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [SALIGAONET] Educate and eradicate !! To: "Saligaon Foxy news" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 24 July, 2011, 3:45 PM Suggestions are swell!...but as Allwyn & most of us know....getting any govt. dept. to follow up on them or anything for that matter...is another matter altogether. But I am sure the smart Saliganvkars will get around this hurdle as they usually do. Yeh need to target the kids.....Teaching civic sense to adults is out of the question - something about trying to teach old dogs new tricks & the like. Have very glaring examples around me - the garbage bin is open because our watchman found out that some people are too lazy to open it using the foot pedal & dropped the garbage bag (sometimes tied up & sometimes not) at the side of the bin. They stare when they see me doing the needful but are shameless people - Bahrainis, Indians, Filipinos, Ethiopians......Now they are too lazy to drop the garbage bags in the open bin & just throw it on the ground by the bin - "laziness par excellaunce" (deliberate spelling mistake as that was how it was pronounced by our very good English Professor in Xavier's College Mapusa)...Ms. Anne Menezes from Aldona. Does anybody have any news of her? She was one great lady! She would be quite old by now but hope & pray she is still spritely. Have a nice day, one & all Annette Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:00:31 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SALIGAONET] Educate and eradicate !! To: [email protected] I like these suggestions, too. Patricia From: Julia Macmahon <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 4:56:12 AM Subject: RE: [SALIGAONET] Educate and eradicate !! #yiv1942013571 .yiv1942013571ExternalClass #yiv1942013571ecxyiv1587322047 .yiv1942013571ecxyiv1587322047hmmessage P {padding:0px;} #yiv1942013571 .yiv1942013571ExternalClass #yiv1942013571ecxyiv1587322047 .yiv1942013571ecxyiv1587322047hmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;} What a super and valid suggestion! rgds J > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:32:47 +0530 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SALIGAONET] Educate and eradicate !! > > Dear Saligaonettekara, > > On Tuesday 19 July 2011 04:41 PM, allwyn de Souza wrote: > > > *_EDUCATE AND ERADICATE_* > > > > Dear Rico , > > Here is my very small suggestion which could help us all . Maybe > > someothers will have better suggestions to add to this : > > > > 1. Leaving behind the MOI issue the education dept. should > > compulsorily begin educating every child no matter which > > linguistic group/background he/she comes from about the dangers of > > garbage menace / plastic waste . > > 2. Compulsorily this topic must be introduced as part of their > > curriculum / environmental studies > > 3. Instead of giving them science projects which most often are > > irrelevant to the childs future – they must be given projects such > > as creating garbage awareness both at home and in ones own > > neighbourhood , etc. Higher classes could be given a project like > > building a compost pit and segregation of garbage etc. The manure > > from compost can be used to grow household vegetables / fruit > > trees etc . > > 4. Each child can go around educating / informing their people first > > at home and then in their own neighbourhood about the importance > > of proper garbage disposal . A little notebook can be given to the > > student to get signatures from every family/ person / > > establishment they have contacted . Marks can be given accordingly. > > 5. In the past people carried their own shopping bags to the market – > > now they go empty handed and sometimes return with their shopping > > items in as many plastic bags as their fingers can carry. > > 6. Local bodies should be given more funds to conduct garbage > > collection . Garbage bags/ bins must be provided .Fines must be > > imposed for burning of hazardous plastic waste , throwing of > > garbage in open fields / hills , etc. > > 7. Garbage right now is creating a big nuisance and causing trouble , > > in future this trouble will definitely double, unless we educate > > and eradicate ! > > > > yours environmentally, > > > > Allwyn de Souza > > One of the most intelligent, practical and down-to-earth > responses both to the MOI isssue and the garbage problem on the > hill, we have come across in recent times! > > It is so unfortunate that we parents are *fighting* for the wrong > choices. We are allowing the government to shove down our > throats - without so much as a peek from us - an entire education > system with its inane content, that is totally out of sync with > the actual world we live in. Very, very few realise that in > fact, we have *no choice whatsoever* over these equally, if not > more important aspects of our education system all over the > country. And yet we are so proud of our *freedom of choice!* > > We realised that the only real freedom we have is to subjugate > our children to the present education system, so irrelevant to > the Goa/India we live in...or to 'homskool'. Alas, not everyone > is in a position to trod the less beaten, but more difficult path. > > Allwyn's post is prophetic! This is what real education is all > about. In any MOI. > > It is the kind of creative and very practical thinking we need if > we want an alternative to our heritage garbage dump on the hill. > And an alternative education system. > > Allwyn, we need you and others like you on board, re baba! Join > us when you have the time. Every teeny-weeny, little > contribution helps. Will keep you in the loop. Also, keep in > touch with any of the people listed above. > > Warm regards and much solid(waste)arity...strictly according to > the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2000! > > M&M. > > > -- > ................................................................ > there *is* anOTHERgoa > at <http://www.anothergoa.blogspot.com> > & <http://www.youtube.com/anothergoa> > ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' > muriel & mario, > c/o "FULKAR", > 6/22, sonarbhatt, saligao. > bardez. goa. 403511. > tel: 0832-2278276 / 2409999 > <anothergoa AT gmail.com> > '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' > > -- > Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe email [email protected] -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected]
