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I always wondered why celebs in an environmental or social programme? They would be there for half an hour or so, they will turn around and may be they won?t even remember which programme they had been to? Bringing celebrity to a program means extra cost extra security extra management and many more extra arrangements? Why all those efforts and all, when we can utilise those resources for needy ones? I always wondered why?? But two weeks back I got my answer in a very convincing way. Two weeks back we students of SchEMS(School of Environmental Science And Management) B.Sc in Environmental Management 7th semester student got an opportunity to visit Bardia National Park-the largest national park in Terai of Nepal. Though the visit was just for 4 days we had lots of tasks to do after travelling 16 hours journey in a public bus from the capital of the country Kathmandu. How to do RESEARCH on park people conflict, Tharu culture and conservation, climate change issues and buffer zone management? Everyone was questioning themselves. After a very new and different travel, we finally got to our destination. Next day, we got early in the morning for a short walk, sat for a tea and tried to interact with people, everyone looked very excited, we were shocked to know the reason behind their excitement was Rajesh Hamal (Nepalese superstar and WWF goodwill ambassador). He was supposed to inaugurate program organised to celebrate anti-poaching day (March 10). Oh my god another event, wasting money on celebs, I said to myself. But our faculty and mentors had different idea, he told, ?Let?s go to the event, we will meet people from different ethnicity and area there, we can interact, it will be a plus point.? We all said fine lets attend a program in Bardia as well. We took almost 30 minutes in bicycle to reach the venue. Since we were not very sure about the exact location of the program venue, we tried to ask people in village but could hardly find anyone. We didn?t lose our hope and asked to people who were going in same direction no one would tell us direction until we said the program where Rajesh Hamal is coming. I thought what?s wrong with these people they don?t know the theme of program but they know Rajesh Hamal is in program. Finally we got to the program venue, there were stalls for exhibition, guns and traps found during anti-poaching actions carried by locals and government authorities, it was also fun to see cultural programs. But still my head was spinning with same question, why a celeb? Still I didn?t have an answer but now I suppose I had already got the answer but couldn?t properly see it. Later while discussing among the friends, we concluded most of the people were not in the program to celebrate anti-poaching day or to see Cultural show, nor they were interested in finding out how are anti-poaching activities were being carried out in their area. They were there to get a glimpse of the celeb, they travelled long in sunny day to see the superstar of Nepali cinema. We being in Kathmandu, never felt so proximity and stardom of a Nepali celeb, but a visit to Bardia changed our mind. We concluded, yes, most of the people were not there to celebrate the event but the organisers could share the activities that were being carried out in the area. The organiser could attract at least people from all over the village to their program and may be some of them seriously heard about the activities, they could at least aware few among them, at least got few more hands to help in anti-poaching activity. If a celeb was not there, may be very few would visit the program and among them very few would be curious about the activities and may be just few more hands to support. Now I can say stardom really attracts people to a cause but organisers must be responsible to make best utilization of inviting such guests, only then it will bring some outcome and positive change. |
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26 Comments
thank you Unmesh..
Posted 04-04-2013 23:59
Nice way of attracting people's attention to the causes...thx for the report, I liked it
Posted 27-03-2013 23:40
@ abhishek..true..
Posted 27-03-2013 01:17
@ christy thats great, hopefully our celebrities will also equally love nature..
Posted 27-03-2013 01:16
thank you dhiroj..
Posted 27-03-2013 01:14
Yes, attracting many people's interest to our activities is the main reason :)
Posted 26-03-2013 15:24
Nice reporting.
Posted 25-03-2013 23:56
so good to hear about it Christy,hope our celebrities will also support Nature from heart, though their contribution now is also very important at least in gathering mass and inspiring many.
Posted 25-03-2013 23:20
FYI, in Korea, there are many social-celebrities well known for their love on the nature. So sometimes they participate in environmental awareness program without charging money or just a small amount of money for the transportation, make-up, staffs. :)
Posted 25-03-2013 14:36
True, I agree with you. :)
Posted 25-03-2013 09:03
thank you Md. Aminul, Laxmi, Anjana and Rishi..looking forward to interacting with you all in Person..
Posted 23-03-2013 20:05
thank you abhishek, and well said, people who actually join hands may be less but we can expect those who were present in the program have heard what others shared as well and they will realize in time.
Posted 23-03-2013 20:03
thanks for report Pratap.
Posted 23-03-2013 18:46
i like it.
Posted 23-03-2013 17:26
Thanks for sharing nice report.
Posted 23-03-2013 17:17
so
along with you
we realized the truth.
Posted 23-03-2013 15:18
So thats the benefit....because 100 percent is nothing possible...
the report you posted is appreciable..... Thumbs up
Posted 23-03-2013 14:23
The number may be huge i guess....
In 100 if only 10 captures the knowledge 10 new people are added in the protection activity.
Posted 23-03-2013 14:16
Yes the extra security.management and cost have to arranged.
But the best part is the number of people gathered there
for their favorite celeb.
Posted 23-03-2013 14:12
thank you simran...
Posted 23-03-2013 08:51
very true Geetika..people run madly after their favorite celeb... many try to adapt their style and so...if organizers can utilize these facts..program with celeb will be a good one..
thank you for expressing your view..
Posted 23-03-2013 08:51
thank you very much firas..
Posted 23-03-2013 08:47
Thanks for sharing this nice report...I found it very realistic and interesting
Posted 23-03-2013 02:04
Thanks for sharing your experience in such a vivid manner.
well , i think celebs are center of attraction and could be efficiently utilized in creating awareness about an issue! Thus, helping us reach a wide no. of people.
u see, only if it would have been John Cena or CM Punk or someone else even we here in india would have got to know that. I would have come running to that pLace :p .
Posted 22-03-2013 23:50
i like it so much pratap
Posted 22-03-2013 23:49
sorry its a bit long,was in full emotion didnt know where to edit...hope you all wont find it boring...and will upload another photos as well very soon..please shoot your comments..
Posted 22-03-2013 23:27