A DIWALI EVE TO RECKON &RECOLLECT FOREVER!

DIWALI CELEBRATION WITH A HEART AND PURPOSE!

It is Diwali Eve and as I see the frantic pace of Diwali Preparations to welcome a new dawn, as I hear the crackers bursting noisily, as I smell the  polluted air and as I think of expensive gifts being purchased and exchanged...

 I smile and recollect the activities in the past two months of the 

'Go Green Drive at Ekta Woods'

 for the

 'Diwali Sale with a Heart and Purpose', 

culminating in 

'A Diwali Eve to Reckon and Recollect Forever '!

To 'Refresh your Memory' about 

the'Purpose,Plan and Preparation of the Activity,read on:

Keeping the flag of 'Go Green Drive at Ekta Woods' 

flying high, we engaged ourselves in yet another activity of

'Recycling Paper and Creating Useful and Ethnic Items'

Did you all know that every ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees?

So the  advantages of reusing and recycling paper are:

1. Saving Trees 

2. Saving Water and Energy.

2. Reducing the Greenhouse  Gas Emission that is destroying the 'Earth's Protective Ozone 

Therefore, with  ''An Aim of Creating and Spreading Awareness" about these important facts to others, Shubha Sagar 'Proposed, Planned and Plunged into this activity along with a bunch of creative, caring and conscious teenagers, Suhani Shirsulla, Drishti Kakkar, Tisya Soneta and Gauri Thimmankatti on 10th October at Ekta woods,

The Activity included:

1. Making envelopes from left over papers. 2.Using old greeting cards and wedding cards to decorate the same.3. Making booklets from left over pages in exercise books.4. Making decorative book marks conveying  important messages from old greeting cards.5. Newspaper bags carrying environmental friendly messages written on them.

With plans in the future to:

Make decorative diyas, to put up a Diwali Sale of items created and most important,use the money earned through the activities,for a social cause. 

Have a look at the creative and enthusiastic activities done:

THE PLEASURE OF CREATING ETHNIC STUFF FROM SHEER WASTE MATERIAL

                           

WE CREATED 25 ENVELOPES. 4 BOOKLETS AND 4 BOOKMARKS IN JUST TWO DAYS!

What the children learned through this Activity:

We simply discard left over papers and expensive greeting and wedding cards.What a sheer waste of a useful resource such as paper!

Hence why not create useful and aesthetic items by recycling paper, put up a sale of these items and use the money collected for a charitable cause.

'Determined to make a Difference',

to the world around and  

'To Do Our Bit for the Environment', 

We continued with our activities of 

'Recycling Paper through our creative touch'

on Saturday afternoon, 24th October 2015, 

'Creating Bookmarks with Meaningful Captions' 

out of waste materials,

Have a look :

BOOKMARKS MADE OUT OF WASTE CARDS,

A CREATIVE WAY OF RECYCLING PAPER

THESE PICTURES OF THE ACTIVITY BELOW,ON 24th OCTOBER, 

ARE A LITTLE HAZY

 BUT THE 'ENTHUSIASM AND ENERGY', 

'CRYSTAL CLEAR AND VERY HIGH', 

AS WE STRIVE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

So you see, we kept moving ahead with 'Small yet Sure Steps', 

super excited to put up 'A  Sale of  Useful and Ethnic Items' 

Created out of Waste Paper and Materials

 thus 

Recycling  Paper through our Creative Touch, 

and thus Reducing Paper Wastage 

and 

Restoring the Environment 

in a

 'Small yet Significant Way'.

THE PROMISE:

So are all of you, ready to buy some of these items very soon and be part of a social cause?

As the proceedings of the sale of these items,would be used to celebrate Diwali with girls in an orphanage and make them feel 'Super Special this Diwali! 

Join hands in helping us spread the message of 

'A Pollution Free and Selfless Diwali!

KEEPING THE PROMISE:

SUHANI SHIRSULLA,SONAL DHAR AND SAMIHA DHAR

PAINTING DIYAS TO PREPARE FOR THE DIWALI SALE 

ANVI PARKAR, TISYA SONETA, SAMIHA DHAR AND SHRIYA SHETTY

POURING THEIR CREATIVITY IN PREPARATION OF A SELFLESS DIWALI.

MAXIMUM NO OF THE MOST CREATIVE DIYAS WERE PAINTED BY

SUHANI SHIRSULLA

THE SHEER JOY OF OUR POSTER, ARRIVING

 COURTESY NEEPA SONETA 

SHUBHA SAGAR, ALONG WITH HER CREATIVE TEAM, 

GETTING READY FOR THE SPECIAL DIWALI SALE

ON 7TH OCTOBER 2015 

MY THREE GIRLS,SUHANI SHIRSULLA, DRISHTI KAKKAR AND ,ANVI PARKAR, PROUDLY DISPLAYING THEIR CREATIVE STUFF IN THE EKTA WOODS GARDEN, AT RAHEJA ESTATE ON 7TH OCTOBER 2015.

SUHANI AND ANVI BAKED CUP CAKES TOO FOR THE SALE!

THE FRUIT OF 'WEEKS OF LABOUR' WAS SWEET,

AND DAY ONE WAS A GREAT SUCCESS! 

AT THE BEGINNING OF DAY TWO OF THE 'SPECIAL DIL-WALI DIWALI SALE'!

POSING WITH OUR SUPPORTERS AND BUYERS ON DAY TWO,8TH OCTOBER 2015

ON 10TH NOVEMBER, DIWALI EVE,THE PROMISED AND MOST AWAITED MOMENT, GIVING A DIWALI TREAT TO THE ORPHANAGE GIRLS IN MALAD, UDAAN GHAR (FOR WHICH WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO THE ORGANIZERS),

WITH THE MONEY COLLECTED  FROM THE SALE ON THE TWO DAYS 

HOW I WISH, I COULD SHARE SOME MORE PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEOS TO GIVE YOU A GLIMPSE OF HOW MUCH FUN WE HAD WITH THE GIRLS ON THIS DAY

!

 FOR MY GIRLS IT WAS A MEMORABLE AND THRILLING LEARNING EXPERIENCE AS IT WAS THEIR FIRST EVER VISIT TO AN ORPHANAGE.

IT WAS INDEED A VERY SPECIAL, SELFLESS AND SATISFYING DIWALI 

THAT WE CELEBRATED ON 10TH NOVEMBER 2015, 

THANKS TO THE SELFLESS AND ENDLESS SUPPORT FROM

NEEPA SONETA, SONAL DHAR, DR. SARGAM SONI, SEEMA SHARMA, SUHANI SHIRSULLA, DRISHTI KAKKAR, ANVI PARKAR, TISYA SONETA .

IN THE LIGHTER VEIN, A SPECIAL MENTION OF MY PUG, SUMO, IF YOU CAN SPOT HIM IN A COLLAGE, WHO HAD TO BE TIED UP, AS HE WOULD PICK UP THE PAINTS OF THE GIRLS AND RUN AWAY,

 BUT ENDED UP BEING VERY PATIENT AND SUPPORTING SILENTLY ALL THROUGH THE WEEKS OF PREPARATION, 

AT MY RESIDENCE IN EKTA WOODS.

WE ARE JUST A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, IF YOU APPRECIATE WHAT WE HAVE DONE, PLEASE SPARE SOME TIME TO POST YOUR COMMENTS TO ENCOURAGE MY GIRLS AND SUPPORTERS.

 This is Shubha Sagar and her team of enthusuastic girls,

 reporting to you from Ekta woods,Raheja Estate, Borivali East, Mumbai

on 11th,November2015, Diwali Day.

WE WISH YOU ALL AND YOUR FAMILIES A VERY SPECIAL AND PROSPEROUS DIWALI!