Delhi School Sets An Example By Banning Plastic And Teaching Rain Water Harvesting

A great way to empower our future generations.

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You may often have heard people saying that kids are the future of this planet but how many of us have seen those who really make an effort in enabling children to take charge. Not many perhaps, but there’s one school in Delhi that is giving the opportunity to save this world from environmental hazards by empowering its students with the knowledge of sustainable living. The Foundation School in Delhi, is not your regular school where a child sits in a classroom for hours to cramp up mundane social skills. Instead, here they are learning to coexist with nature via experimental-based learning activities and sustainable initiatives.

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Students at The Foundation School have successfully partaken in installing water harvesting systems, making its campus plastic free, and establishing composite units to convert biodegradable waste into manure. It is also noteworthy that 65 percent of the school’s electricity is produced from a 71.2 KW solar plant placed on its terrace. It prevented 87 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the first year of its installation in 2014, which is equivalent to the pollution produced by running a passenger vehicle around the Earth’s equator nine times. The campus also has another bio compost which uses bio-enzymes for horticultural waste generated on the campus.

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The school also has a farm-cum-forest where each student gets to pluck vegetables where they learn agricultural concepts and get hands on experience on organic farming. Its massive outdoor campus also allows the students to get in touch with nature and understand the intricacies of it.

Not many schools give their students the power and responsibility to take charge of their own environment and The Foundation School has shown us the way in doing so. The school also wishes to mitigate the educational gap in our country and thus have even started afternoon shifts. Indeed a great way to lead the socio-economic development of the country.

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