Spreading health awareness in Zari slum near our campus BPGC was the first social campaign that we had started, and undoubtedly we had a lot to learn from the experience, both from what we did right and what could have done right to make it better.
As we try to analyze everything we did, we’ll try to keep it in order of how things proceeded, so that it is laid out in a sequential manner.
The initiation of the process was during a casual conversation between Harshita and Varsha about …

I was very confident that my team will make it to the telephonic interview (considering the fact that we had a very strong application and mini-campaign) and we did it. We, Pro_Actives, were one of the six teams shortlisted. The individual interview was scheduled on 10th of May. Gautam called me up at around 7 pm on that day to give me the id of the conference which I was supposed to join. I had some problems while logging in and meanwhile my restlessness grew. Finally I logged in… …

For mini-campaign we chose to educate the kids of Zari, a slum near Bits Pilani Goa Campus( BPGC), about the issues of cleanliness and garbage disposal. Where did we derive the inspiration from?? Here it is……
We had come across an article in Goan-Herald, about Mrs. Velma, who has been trying to improve the acute problem of waste disposal in Goa, through her company, “Goa Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd.”. Her company specializes in landfill remediation, and she is in the process of introducing PET recycling scheme in Goa. She has initially …

I started thinking about what can be done about the garbage disposal problem in Zari( a slum near Bits Pilani Goa Campus….supposedly the worst slum in Goa). I thought why not contact the Municipal corporation or Public Welfare Department of Goa. I surfed and got some contact numbers from the internet. I called the head office of PWD and got the phone number of Mr. Praveen Satarpekar who was supposedly the concerned person . He directed me to Mr.Susheel Kumar , head of Division 9 under which Zari falls …

Though I generally tend to forget the details of events but I do remember a few of the day we went to stage the play for Zari’s school kids. I remember how enthusiastically the teacher greeted us when she saw us, and even though the kids had an exam going on, agreed to collect all after the exam to witness the play. I remember how all of us rehearsed in the nearby temple almost thrice, never being able to control our laughter either at krushi’s kiddish hindi, or Varsha’s more …

11 April, 2009                                 
With a call from Varsha the day before, that summer vacation for the Zari Primary School students starts the next day, I needed to plan the division of ‘Spree’ work for the day rather early . With support of the teacher of Zari Primary School and some of our friends, we embarked on our first campaign in grass routes.
We reached the school early in the morning, as we thought it would give …