72. Volunteering with SCoRe- Sundays dedicated to the environment
Sundays are the best part of my week. The perfect
end and the much-needed relief before another beginning. I have always enjoyed
my Sunday, sometimes just chilling at home or maybe meeting friends and family
or those brunches that everybody loves. While this was my kind of enjoyment,
SCoRe made me realise that Sundays can be productive and amazing at the same
time.
Joseph Addison once said, “Sunday clears away the
rust of the whole week.” To me, this meant that we can rest on Sundays and be
ready for the week to come, but, with SCoRe I have learned a new meaning. Now
Sunday to me means doing something different from the mundane work, being
productive, giving back to the society and feeling good about myself.
SCoRe includes 100 hours of community service in its
unique curriculum. This requires the students to spend a few hours on Sundays
volunteering for different causes such as environment and clean-up, animal
Rights, child rights and education, and helping people with disability. The
students are divided into four groups dedicated to each cause.
For the past three months, I have been working for
the environment and clean-up group. Under this, we are associated with
GreenLine, an environmental organisation to study in-depth and work on
environmental issues. The first few weeks were spent cleaning different beaches
in Mumbai. Followed by lengthy discussions on subjects such as waste
segregation, plastic pollution, microplastic and its impact, landfills in
Mumbai, and measures that could be taken for better waste management.
Everyone is generally aware of environmental issues
and climate change. We are all aware but ignorant of these problems. I had the
same thought process, it is not that we don’t want to help, but rather we don’t
know how to help. The problem is so huge now that we don’t know where to start.
I am fortunate because my college has given me the platform to give back to
society. And, now I want to keep doing this, I want to make this a part of my
routine. Likewise, we all can find ways around us to help the environment. If
you want to contribute, start by doing basic things such as avoid plastic,
recycle or reuse old stuff, segregate your household waste or just don’t
litter. Hoping these small acts collectively will have a better result.
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