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Green Brigade (www.facebook.com/groups/371497349573555/) is a group based in UAE to enhance our awareness to protect our environment and add value to the society. In ?Green Brigade?, we always think that any small initiative has a potential to cross any barrier in any day and will be instrumental in creating a positive environment around us. Recently we came across one such initiative by an individual in UAE and his name is Mr. Venkat, popularly known as ?The Pencil man of UAE?. Pencils, erasers. rulers, crayons, unused blank sheets from used notebooks, toys etc are normally available in our household in excess and we normally don't pay much attention to these. After sometime, we start using the fresh/new ones and the used items go to trash bin and finally to the landfill. But at the same time, there are many children in the world who are really struggling to get these to continue their study.... Mr. Venkat collects used these materials from various schools/individuals in UAE and distribute to the needy and poor children in India through various NGOs. ?Shikshayatan? in Thiruvaroor district ,Tamil Nadu, India and other NGOs distribute pencils on behalf of www.education4all.info in the district schools to 4000+ children every term. To promote his wonderful initiative, we the ?Green Brigade? had taken the initiative recently to collect these used/excess materials from various households. Our members had conducted a door to door campaign to share the thought of this initiative to the people and then finally collected a huge amount of pencils, school bags, books, note books etc which will be useful to many poor children in India. At the end, we sat down with packing all the stuff that we had collected. We got cartons and started to separate the items one by one based on different category. We then packed them and decorated the cartons with Green Brigade logos. We all were really surprised to see how much of re-usable materials we had collected that would have been just thrown out of our houses and finally go to the landfill. The next day, ?Green Brigade? handed over these huge 7 cartons of materials to Mr. Venkat for onward dispatch to India for the needy segment of the society.  After segregating packing huge materials into 7 big size packing boxes  Just before handing over 7 packed boxes to "The Pencil Man of UAE" |
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38 Comments
Thank you for sharing.
Posted 27-08-2013 18:25
Thank you for sharing.
Posted 27-08-2013 18:25
Unmesh, Good Job.
Posted 12-06-2013 20:41
We all can have similar initiatives in our community & share at this forum, Good Job Unmesh
Posted 12-06-2013 17:41
Wow... that's great :D
Posted 10-04-2013 09:04
@ Christy : Yes, already 4-5 schools in UAE are involved in the initiative (Mr. venkat's efforts, not mine!!!). In our school also, the initiative has started and hope to gather many students from my school...
Posted 09-04-2013 23:52
Thx Titus for your comments...
Posted 09-04-2013 23:50
@Unmesh That's great! How about sending a letter to schools to gather used school stationary so that it can be reused. Or distributing boxes for gathering used pencils and erasers... just an idea :)
Posted 09-04-2013 11:54
great initiative keep up
Posted 08-04-2013 22:53
@ Christy : Yes, we have found the channel thru Mr. Venkat (The pencilman of UAE) who always tells us that think twice before sending anything to garbage/landfill if that can be used by someone else...we will be conducting another collection drive in next 2 months...
Posted 08-04-2013 21:16
Yeap, then let's start from that point. Finding a proper channel :D
Posted 08-04-2013 14:15
@ Naylee, Dhiraj : Thanks a lot for your comments and feedbacks.
Posted 07-04-2013 19:55
Thx a lot Roshan for your comments..
Posted 07-04-2013 19:54
great initiatives.
Posted 07-04-2013 17:52
WOW! this is such a great initiative! :) Keep it up
Posted 07-04-2013 16:13
Great initiative.
Posted 07-04-2013 10:38
Unmesh, keep this going. Your actions are little for you, but their impact is VERY BIG. keep it up!
Posted 05-04-2013 21:58
@ Geetika & Abhisekh : here also so many people are coming out to the cause. Our next step is to involve our school children also...thx a lot for your feedback
Posted 05-04-2013 17:58
Thx Bomboma for your comments..
Posted 05-04-2013 17:57
@ Smriti & Czar : It's nice feeling that little efforts also can inspire people a lot...thx for your feedback.
Posted 05-04-2013 17:56
nice initiative brother, keep up the good work.
Posted 05-04-2013 16:28
Oh! This is a great and noble initiative! I remember being engaged in similar sort of campaign earlier. Your report has brought back the passion in me now. Thanks a Lot . Really!
Posted 05-04-2013 00:42
Nice initiative
Posted 04-04-2013 21:40
inspiring. one of the best initiatives
Posted 04-04-2013 21:10
thank you for the report. I actually became very inspired.
Posted 04-04-2013 19:49
@ Pratap, Lakshya, Ganaga : Thx a lot for your comments and feedback.
Posted 04-04-2013 19:36
@ Christy : thx ...yes we are overwhlemed to note the enthusiasm among the people during the collection drive. many people are willing to do something for the society, but proper channel is not known to them...
Posted 04-04-2013 19:35
Firas, Kehkshan, Bhawana : thx a lot for your comments and feedback..
Posted 04-04-2013 19:34
Thx a lot rajashree and Simran, Yes it is a huge collection bt Green Brigade members and still a lot is lying to be collected and packed further...many people are extending their hands...a very good response indeed...
Posted 04-04-2013 19:32
nice.
Posted 04-04-2013 19:29
Takes a strong determination to do something like that.
Posted 04-04-2013 16:19
great work..keep it up..
Posted 04-04-2013 14:43
It may seem small,but we learn how to help people in the earth.In my country also we would follow your steps.
Posted 04-04-2013 14:22
All the best!
Posted 04-04-2013 13:34
Wow, great! Even I want to send used pencils and erasers to him.
But I'm gonna hold myself because a loooooooooot of CO2 will be emitted for the delivery to UAE :p
Posted 04-04-2013 09:58
i like it )
Posted 04-04-2013 06:11
Good job and big collection Well done Friend!
Posted 04-04-2013 04:48
Nice to see with you with "The Pencil Man of UAE". Thanks for the report.
Posted 04-04-2013 02:16