Thursday, February 12, 2009

When Kids "take over"

I read this post at Mr Rajiv Chakravarty's blog which is about green revolution and clean energy. This is an example as to how a child is the father of man-

All this while I have been writing about trees and green things. Today, I am spell-bound to know that a six year old has done a great thing. Here is an email that was received by Janet's Trees for Free foundation. Friends, if it has touched your heart, join hands with Janet or maybe some other organization for planting trees. Its the need of the hour.

Dear tree planters,

Our daughter, Maaike, just had her 6th birthday party. At her party, she asked friends not to give gifts, but to make donations to their choice of 2 charities. One was an orphanage, the other was planting trees in Bangalore. She has been talking about how to stop pollution in Bangalore. This seemed to me to be something concrete that she could do safely. (She talks about going out and picking up garbage.)

She has raised just about 3500 rupees for planting trees and would like to plant some trees now. We live in Whitefield, so, planting somewhere out here would be easier for us. We have some friends who volunteer at a government school nearby teaching english. That might be a good location for planting. Another idea is that the orphanage that we hope to identify this week might have some need of trees.

Do you know of any good sites in the Whitefield area? How do we proceed with you to organize a planting? We can organize some of her friends and their parents to help.

If a six-year old can think of this I think all of us can think better. Unfortunately I dont have a photograph of this little girl! Anyways, all the best!!

2 comments:

Piyush said...

kudos to maaike.
great post..motivating.
and sormita, you have a great eye for the stories you want to do..

workhard said...

Thats true, sometimes kids can amaze us.

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