Hi! This is an excellent way. Keep going ahead. There is a very urgent need to educate people on environmental issues. And these are adequately answered in this effort. People should plant at least 10 saplings this rainy season and at least 3 should survive to become trees. This I am actively promoting in BBSR. I hope I am successful. Regards, Sivanand
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:39 PM, ulprasanthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Friends, > > There has been a very good breakthrough with respect to our > activities. > > Every group has the problem of the volunteers who work on field. > There > are some active volunteers in each group and they reside in different > areas in the city. If volunteers of all groups who reside in > particular colony can form a forum and work for the local causes and > all the issues that concern us that would be great. They have to work > with the existing groups if any like Colony Associations. > > Also it would be difficult for the volunteers of particular group to > attend a meeting at particular location. So instead of all the > members > meeting at one particular place if we have local clubs for each > colony, that saves a lot of time for the volunteers. With this > concept > Manavata group started local club in Srinagar Colony and Vijaya Nagar > Colony. They invited me for the Srinagar Colony meeting and I felt > very happy for meeting them. All of them think like us only. We > shared > our ideas and the problems. We decided to start working seriously in > Srinagar Colony and near by areas. > > I request every one of the group to think on this concept and please > share your place of residence so that if there are at least 10 > members > from each locality we can form a club. Name is not a botherance but I > prefer Birds of same feathers as this name best describes the nature > of the club. We will mention all the groups whose members are part of > the particular area club. > > For Srinagar Colony we decided the following: > > 1. Aravind, who is a sr. project manager in Infosys and President of > Manavata Hyderabad Chapter, a resident of Srinagar Colony, collected > the contact details of the board members of near by colony > associations. > > 2. We will be meeting them the coming saturday (we ask for their > appointment on Saturday). > > 3. Our strategy is first to listen to their activities and plans and > then put forward our proposal. > > 4. What is our proposal? > > ---- Taking care of the parks in the vicinity > > ---- Prepare a ten to fifteen point pamphlet about eco-friendly > practises. > (We will organize a Mela one day and provide all the tools at 10% > discount on that day so that people need not have go to different > places to buy them. We have to talk with the shop owners and other > concerned suppliers) > > ---- We will organize sessions once in a month. Each month on an > important topic that is of direct use to them. > > ----When we organize a session on RTI, we will ask the people to come > with their problems and what are all the questions they have that > they > want information from the govt. We will help people in framing the > RTI > application and will explain them the address, timings and other > details of filing them. > > 5. Ex/Sample of a 10/15 point Eco-Friendly Plan > > -- Use Copper Tumblers and Utensils for cooking and for drinking > water > > ---Use cloth bags instead of paper bags or plastic > > ---Use CFL Bulbs > > ---Keep at least 5 plants in ur home > > ---Save Power by using only when necessary. We often tend to forget > to > remove the plugs though we switch off power. > > ---Do not mix all the waste but segregate the waste and use different > dust bins and work on solid waste management > > ---Collect the Newspapers from each household and give it to any > orphanage. > > 6. When we organize the mela, we will keep it a day long one and we > have all these products on a discount rate. If this is a success we > can organize this mela once in three months or so depending on the > need. > > 7. Talk to road side vendors and provide support for the education of > their children and give the used dresses to them. > > 8. Form a old citizen category, youth and women categories (as the > numbers increase) in the club and do activities that provide solace > to > the people. Laughing Activity would be a great idea. > > I request all the members of BoSF group to announce their place of > stay so that we can find out the areas and also the number of > members. > > I personally feel that for any initiative to be a success it should > reach out to people and colony clubs are the best means to achieve > that objective. > > This is the response so far in BoSF: > > Srinagar Colony > > Prasanthi - TMAD > > Ravi Shankar - TMAD > > Aravind - Manavata > > There are 5 more members from Manavata > > Ameerpet > > Satish Kethineedi - Trinanda Foundation > > Kukatpally > > Krishna Kishore - Verizon CSR > > Marredpally > > Kishore Budde - Sayam Cheddam > > Kasyap Krupal - TMAD > > Anand Nagar, Venkataramana Colony, Khairatabad > > VMRG Suresh, Loksatta > > Thank you. > > with regards, > Prasanthi. > prasanthi.wordpress.com > > >
