Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 29: In its CSR and regular endeavours on environment protection Jodhamal’s Eco-Buddies under the aegis of WWF and IAYP carried out an energy conservation drive by adopting the Ismailpur Kothe village in Bishnah Tehsil.
Around 120 students and 10 teachers from the school participated.
Giving people an easy way for energy saving, hundreds of CFLs were distributed among the villagers free of cost and the old neon bulbs were replaced under the awareness drive.
The team managed to exchange polythene bags with Jute bags.
Around 200 saplings were planted in village schools and shamlat land. A Health camp was set up in which Dr P S Salathia and Dr Meenakshi from Rural Health Department visited and had an awareness talk with the villagers on General Health Programmmes.
Also, a step ahead towards awareness and gender respect was a Power Point presentation about women empowerment and gender discrimination was shown to a large number of villagers, which was an eye opener for them.
School donated black boards, water bottles, sweets and stationary items like books, pencils and erasers etc to almost all village kids.
Eco-Buddies have promised the villagers of regular visits to help them with General Health Awareness, Conservation of Education, Biodiversity, improve Sanitary Conditions and Awareness on women empowerment and the trip was coordinated by Tulsi Sharma village coordinator and Panchs Krishan Kumar and Mohan Kumar.
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