Here's how the cleanup went...

http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/blogs/show_entry/634-a-plastic

At Muthathi village, we saw this newborn calf.... you can still see its umblical cord!


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Ha, can you imagine a few days without posts from me! Yes, miracles do occur, as the Clean and Green cleanup on Saturday and a trip to Chennai took care of several days...I must say that though I couldn't access the internet in Chennai, there was so much to do....a Tambram/Punjabi wedding, and visiting friends who had either had either a baby or a ( Read more... )

This time we tied up with Wipro to do a cleanup at Muthathi; and on Saturday, the 30th August, we set off in two Wipro buses, with 49 volunteers. Sandeep, Anush and I went in Karthik's jeep as Sandeep needed to go ahead and make arrangements at Bheemeshwari as well, regarding the plastic pickup by JLR. That's going to be a different post (which ( Read more... )

Organizing a voluntary event is one of the most difficult tasks I know. First of all, I have to find out if each and every person is free; then sound each one about the event being proposed; tap into their enthusiasm, sometimes stoking up the same from apathy; making sure everyone has phone nos and details, and making sure small and big things go ( Read more... )

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When you put your trust in somebody, and that someone does not live up to the trust...when you think someone will do a good job, and they smile at you and you find later that the job was done shoddily...evem as small a thing as thinking that someone who promises something will come through, and finding that it doesn't happen...betrayal of trust, ( Read more... )