Several children from Kannagi Nagar help restore small ponds.
What’s it about? For several kids from Kannagi Nagar, it has become part of their daily routine to pick up plastic bottles and clean other waste from three small ponds in the locality. They were becoming dangerous for kids to pass through while going for their evening tuition. What began with 54 students has grown to 200.
- As they began the clean-up operation, it came to the attention of corporates and NGOs. They came forward to help restore the ponds as part of their CSR.
- They now have walkways and benches. The corporation will submit a proposal to install lights. While the staff maintains the saplings from time to time, the students have collective ownership of the lake.
Who said what? E Marisamy, who runs free tuition classes, said it was difficult for students to come in the evening since they had to travel through the pass with shrubs that had waste, reptiles, and insects. Second-year B.Com student S Lokeswari said the waterbodies are now safer throughout the day.