Annual Report 2010 - 11 - Purkal Youth Development Society

Community
Development
Stove Project: A Project that is meant to conserve
timber and save the forests has been launched. It is
intended to encourage the use of an energy efficient
wood stove which is comparatively smoke free. It
helps the use of twigs instead of logs of timber and
so saves the women from collecting and storing
branches of trees cut laboriously in winter each year
for use through the year. A pilot initiative of the year
will hopefully succeed into a wide movement that will
make a difference eventually.
Anti-Plastic Campaign: Two volunteer groups have
commenced a campaign that aims at getting rid of the
menace of plastic garbage The plan is to completely get
rid of this danger by manually picking up and cleaning
the garbage once every week in two identified villages.
Door to door campaign supplemented by garbage
pits built to help the removal of the non-degradable
garbage will hopefully establish two villages that will
serve as models in six months’ time.
Gardening: Gardening to make the environment Clean
and planting trees; efforts are on to plant more trees in
the neighbourhood and nurture more on the roadside.
Gardens that will ornament the area is another effort
that is being pursued.
Workshops:
• Workshop for awareness on HIV and Tuberculosis
by Hope Foundation.
• Workshop on awareness about RTI thanks to the
Mountain Children Foundation and their President
Aditi Kaur.
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