In West Bengal, we collaborated with Lotus Rescue, a local NGO based in Kolkata, working with women and children. This project ran for over a year, from October 2020 to December 2021. We trained teachers from all their centres to implement our Environmental Learning Program. 
 

Some of the GFI-led activities in Lotus Rescue centres around the year were:

• Environmental Learning Program: Modules and workshops with educators and children

• Waste Management: Initiating composting, upcycling and recycling of plastic through Green Pari

• Eco-friendly distribution of mid-day meals: Shifted from disposable plates to steel plates

• Commemorated various environmental days at learning centres to create awareness and ignite action

• Initiated kitchen gardening and composting activities in a few centres

• Awareness towards reduction of plastic usage at centres

• Weekly Friday Clean-Ups: Around centres and surrounding areas

• Using art as a medium for social change