Usiru has been taking small but quick steps towards making our world a better place to live in for our future generation. the onset of new year began with a bang for Usiru as the members were busy with conducting many inter-school competitions for students of 8th standard in a few schools around Nagarbhavi (HQ. of usiru foundation)
We started with a small exercise of "Leaves identification". 15 variety of leaves were on display and kids were asked to identify which plant they belonged to.
Yogitha was able to identify the most no of leaves correctly.
Next was the essay writing competition on "The Current Garbage problems in Bangalore and its solution".
Vishalakshmi stood out as the winner in this competition.
The prize distribution ceremony was conducted on 19th Jan 2013 as St. Sophia School along with the last leg of the competition, "The street play". Here are a few stills of the students performing the play with enthusiasm:
The ceremony was honored by the eminent Chief guest MLA (RR Nagar) Sri M Shrinivasa and preceded by the famous writer and Journalist Sri Nagesh Hegde. The Corporator of ward 73 Sri Venkatesh babu was also present to motivate the students to practice Environmental protective activities. Deepak and group helped spread some awareness and break a few myths about various kinds of snakes found around Bangalore.
The response from all the students and invited guests was very inspiring and has kept all of us at Usiru excited to come up new and better events like these and help our Mother nature by instilling the need to protect and save the environment from pollution among students.
