
Suresh Mathur Facilitator reports.
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The dynamic duo of the Headmistress, Mrs.
Jyotsna Sharma and Mrs. Kanta Mishra,teacher coordinator for the
school, have fired the imagination of the young girls who are keen
to work towards tidying up their school campus and also to take the
messages ‘Save Water’ and ‘Avoid using Polythene
bags’ to their homes.
The Headmistress requested the ‘My
Rotary Club was approached and their President
Mr. Sanjeev Khandelwal readily agreed to present 10 dust bins to the
school children.
At a simple but meaningful ceremony held in
the school on the 11th of May 2010, Mr. Suresh Mathur, Facilitator,
told the children that our belief is that if the students started
looking around and came up with suggestions about what they would
like to do to improve their environment, it would be of great value
all round.
The Rotary President commended the initiative
and complimented the students, the headmistress and the teacher
co-ordinator for their zeal. He also said that Rotary would be keen
to support environmental initiatives by school children.
The Ajmer Kindergarten School, a nursery
school with children aged 2 to 3 years, is a member of the ‘My Clean
School, Ajmer’ initiative and undoubtedly has the youngest members
among all the member schools in the city!

A trendsetter school, ‘Greening
Nisha Agarwal, the Headmistress of the school,
beams with pride as she explains how all students are given a plant
in a pot when they join the school with their name tag on it. Each
student waters his plant regularly under the caring eye of the
teacher and watches it grow. A bond grows between the child and the
plant.
It is also a message to the parents, says
Nisha.
If more schools adopted the idea the planet
would be greener! Wouldn’t you agree?
My Clean School Ajmer organised a poster making competition for
school children on the topic: 'Reduce- Reuse-Recycle' on 18th Sept.
2009.
The response was very heartening and the quality of posters was
extremely good.
Sponsors
provided funds for prizes and for all other expenditure.
The Divisional Commissioner, Mr. Atul Sharma, commended the effort
of the students and promised all support to the 'My Clean School
Ajmer' efforts.
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The Div. Com. viewing the exhibition |
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Some of the posters on display |

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I have now a core team of around 7
members( committed and hardworking persons) who are working with me
to add to the network of schools and spread the 'My Clean School'
message.
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20 schools have become members and we
are likely to have another 10. We have visited each school
personally and the Heads have responded very warmly.
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The Collector has asked us if we can
add one school each from the 8 Panchayats in Ajmer District.
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The formal launch of the movement in
Ajmer will be done by the Collector before the 15th of August.
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We are working on the essay writing
competition and also the World Clean-up Day.


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