Balasabeh Phadatare Polytechnic College LEaders clean the village and benefit 8,000 people in Kalamb, Maharashtra

Plastic cleaning, garbage cleaning, dengue awareness, and water purification awareness. These were four key themes LEaders Sandip Dombale, Sanjay Nitave, Suyash Borate, Yogesh Kharat and Abhay Bhosale (Balasaheb Phadatare Polytechnic College, Kalamb, Maharashtra) focused on in efforts to clean the village where, it was clear, health, safety and comfort were being sacrificed. They partnered with college staff and students, for maximum outreach, collected their cleaning supplies, organized themselves into these four groups, and got busy making the village a better, cleaner place for everyone. Seeing their initiative, local politicians also contributed in order to create a healthier environment. This initiative by LEAD students has encouraged people of the village to do their part in keeping the environment clean, and has even helped control the mosquito population. The village continues to sustain the cleanliness of the area and now dispose of domestic waste outside of the area. This project benefited an estimated 8,000 people and has encouraged other neighbouring villages to implement the same idea in their own location.

DFP Cohort 12 Students Tackle Community Issues in Hubli

Leaders/Fellows of Deshpande Fellowship Program Cohort 12 were out in the city of Hubli on the 6th of November, in effort to help solve local community problems. Due to their commitment and hard work, 60 fellows were able to identify 180+ key problems the community faces, raise awareness of such issues and provide fast solutions for them, all within 6 hours.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                   

The projects included creating awareness among public and shopkeepers about proper hygiene, advising on usage of public assets, closing a dangerous manhole, encouraging public to clean the drainage system, raising funds and resources from the local residents, educating on the importance of maintaining cleanliness in public areas and disposing plastic waste properly, raising complaints in the municipal corporation for some of the community problems and following up with them, conducting sessions for school children about personal hygiene, educating Anganavadi teachers on keeping hazardous materials away from kids so they can mitigate the risk, and so many more.

                                            

                           

LEader Kalyan Chakravarthy Goud Encourages Proper Dustbin Use

Kalyan and his team members Sai Kiran, Meenakshi and Ch.Nagavardhini (GSCET) were compelled to change the way people were disposing of their waste in Vinayak Nagar Nizamabad. They noticed a great deal of trash littered around, and a lack of people using the dustbin provided. They wanted to see the dustbin area clean and in-use, so they made it happen. They gathered supplies to clean the dustbin, and gathered all the surrounding garbage and put it all in the bin. They noticed that as soon as it was cleaned up and people saw what they were doing, they immediately started using it as well. They also encouraged the colony (of about 80 people) to continue using the bin properly, to keep the environment clean and safe.