Hello and Namaste!
First up, a BIG HEARTFELT THANK YOU to the students of Ghoom Girlsschool, its teachers and the people of Ghoom for turning up for the Cleanliness Drives on 1st November and 2nd November, 2018.
Where did we clean?
1st November
Girls of Class XI of Ghoom Girlsschool participated in the drive. Class teachers and some members from the community also joined in. We split up into three groups – Sukhia Road, Monastery Road and Ghoom Station Road. All three groups started at the Ghoom Railway Station.
The Sukhia Road group cleaned the road back till the school; the Monastery Road group cleaned from the bottom of Monastery Road till the stairs leading down to the school, and the Ghoom Station Road group cleaned the Ghoom Railway Station and the Station Road till the Ghoom Boys School gate and back.
2nd November
Girls of Class VII and VIII of Ghoom Girlsschool and their class teachers participated in the drive. We split up into two groups this time – Ghoom Station Road and Monastery Road.
The Station Road group cleaned the Ghoom Railway Station once again, but this time we went on ahead till the Petrol Bunk (before Batasia Loop) and all the way back to the school.
The Monastery Road group started at the bottom of Monastery road and went all the way up to the Yiga Choeling Monastery, further ahead around the bend till we joined Sukhia Road; took a left turn and walked back up to the school – trying to clean the entire stretch.
What did we clean?
Dry, non biodegradable waste.
Mostly plastics, metals, glass, and the random riff-raff of bags, shoes, tyres, automobile parts, furniture bits, etc.
How much did we manage to clean?
1st November
About 5 large sacks of recyclable waste and about 12 more large sacks of non-recyclable waste.
2nd November
About 4 large sacks of recyclable waste and about 7 more large sacks of non-recyclable waste.
The recyclable waste was handed over to the kabaadiwala/ recycler on Sukhia Road, and the non-recyclable waste was picked up by a Municipality Garbage Truck the same evening (we had contacted them before-hand and arranged for a pickup).
We painted too!
After the first day’s cleaning of the stairway from Monastery Road to Sukhia Road, two enthusiastic young men from the community helped paint the stairway in a comforting, cool blue 🙂
