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#117 Helping Brainz Green VEINS at GBM, Dwarka

On the occasion of World Environment Day (though a week before the actual date), Helping Brainz, in association with GBM Public School, Dwarka conducted the 4th series of “Green Information Literacy Drive” as part of the Helping Brainz Green VEINS (Valuable and Ecofriendly Initiatives for Nature’s Sustainability). After Aster Public School, Noida Extension, Government School, Sec128, Noida, Government School, Sec66, Gurugram, GBM Public School became the 4th school to implement Green VEINS.
Green VEINS, consists of “education and literacy programmes, talk shows, workshops, debates, and quiz competitions” which mainly focuses on environmental literacy and educational programmes among the younger generation, making them feel the need of greenery and motivating them to be green volunteers.

As per the day-1 schedule, Helping Brainz focused mainly on the Green Talk-show, which was conducted by Dr.Kiran Pandey, Program Director, Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi focusing mainly on the practical and daily use techniques for nature conservation and Aditi Roy (an independent researcher and project coordinator from Centre for Studies Science Polices, School of Social Sciences, JNU Delhi); followed by spot-quiz, green slogan writing competition and tree plantations.

Winners were awarded with Green Pen (a pen with a seed on its tail-end). 40+ students and teachers from senior secondary sections of GBM Public School attended the event coordinated by Kirti Tikyani, Vikas Jain, Ashish Kumar, Parul Singh and Yedhu Krishna  Menon from Helping Brainz. Priya Francis and Swati.B (Interns for a Social Impact from Delhi University) shall be working closely with GBM Public School for the implementations of Green VEINS projects in July’19.

 

Helping Brainz formed a green science club and also selected a team of 10 green volunteers from the school, who shall work towards the Green VEINS implementation.

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#107 Green and Blue VEINS (GILDS) Gurugram Day 1 events

#107 Green and Blue VEINS (GILDS) Gurugram

In our mission to empower the rural Gurugram and to make them sustainable, HelpingBrainz choose first to educate the young population of Gurugram on ‘environmental sustainability and nature conservation’. As a step-1, we spent a day with the senior secondary students of Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 67, Badshahpur, Gurugram. The 3+ hours event named ‘Green and Blue VEINS’ (VEINS stands for Valuable and EcoFriendly Initiatives for Nature’s Sustainability) were mainly spent on various aspects for Green Information Literacy drives.

Events included: talk-shows were led by Aditi Roy (an independent researcher and project coordinator from Centre for Studies Science Polices, School of Social Sciences, JNU Delhi) and Kopal Verma, (a Research Scholar from School of Environmental Sciences, JNU, Delhi) and Workshop on how to use re-usable plastic flower-pots by Fatima (M.Sc Final Year, Amity University )and Arun John (Working professional), and Green Quiz by Abin Sharma (Working professional), all Helping Brainz Green VEINS team members. Others who supported and volunteered the successful happening of the event were Surbhi Dhingra, Vivek Vaid and Yedhu Krishna Menon. Event was orchestrated by Kirti Kumari Tikyani. All prize winners were awarded with saplings.

Event focused on making students responsible for environment. In the coming week(s), we plan for Green Parliament and Debates, Street plays on event focused on making students responsible for ‘water depletion and general population’, and water walks. The school has agreed to make Helping Brainz activities a part of internal assessments and environmental projects.