Inner Wheel Club of Madras South- District 323: Go Green

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Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Go Green continues for another year - Project Pasumai begins from home.....Terrace Garden and Home made composite

Sandhya and team continues the Pasumai Project with a well pruned terrace garden with home made composite and Sita akka's terrace garden is children's favorite. Kalarani carries on with kitchen garden and Rooma's beautiful landscape at her back yard and Indira Revi' s beautiful garden and beautiful trees and plants at Viji Jinadas's hours and beautiful yummy mangoes from Vasanthi's farm garden and Sheila Krishnan farm house filled with a lovely greenary making it more welcoming for our South club annual farm house parties. Just like how cleanliness and charity begins from home, Project Pasumai also gives amazing bonus to celebration of life. The learnings from last year Green Synopsium, and several initiatives and seminars we attended on Go Green last year, we just take them forward with passion, ease and pleasure. Few glimpses from several of the go green efforts of our club members.

Sunday, 2 February 2014

Eco-Fun Trip of Home of Hope Children to Vandalur Zoo...a day with Nature's best creations

A day planned to take 30+ children to Vandalur Zoo as a joint project between Rotary Club of Madras South and Inner Wheel Club of Madras South was successfully executed with support from Volunteers of Sevai Karangal.

Children reached the venue by sharp 9 am on 2 Feb 2014, along with the founder of Home of Hope Mr Dominic and other volunteers lead by Thilak, Raghu, and Uma. We were joined by Nandan, Padmasree, Devi, Sasirekha and Vadivel along with Sudhir Oberoi and his wife Lovely Oberoi. The crowds were just starting to come in and we were lucky to get two carts to go around the 1400 acres of green lush grounds with variety of animals to watch. The digital boards exhibition at the entrance was a sure welcoming thing for children to create the enthusiasm to start with. After a fulfilling breakfast, children enjoyed the ride into the forest. Watching various species of birds and animals, including tigers, white tigers, lions, leopard, bears, elephants, giraffe, zebras, gorillas, reptiles, birds and turtles and many more, children were truly excited. After the beautiful ride and walk for close to 2 hours, kids got into a Lion Safari and Deer Safari and they enjoyed watching Lions and Lionesses closely. Animals were kind enough to pose for our pictures as well.

Then kids were let to play in the playground with swings, ladders and trees for close to an hour before they headed to a happy meal organised by volunteers. Children expressed their gratitude and thanks for a wonderful day to us and extended the same to Rotary Club of Madras South and Inner Wheel Club of Madras South being their sponsors for the day. They also hugged Thilak for organising so well, that we never felt tired of walking around or being on rides on a sunny day.

After providing them with a can of cool drinks, children helped us clean the place we used proving that they are very disciplined and taught to be waste warriors.. and then planned our way back to the city with full of memories and loads of happiness. Thanks to the last minute volunteers who jumped into action to help us manage the day and Thanks to Rotary and Inner Wheel for sponsoring such a beautiful project. We spent close to 6 hours together and children invited us to their Home of Hope in Tiruninravur. Glad we were able to compensate to these children who missed to be part of our Malazhalai Oli project due to logistics constraints.

Pictures of the day: @Vandalur Zoo 2.2.2014, with Home of Hope Children