BARODA STRICKERS

VRUKSHABANDHAN 

Just like people celebrate Rakshabandhan by tying a thread on brother’s hand and take a vow to protect each other from from any hurdles or challenges. We celebrated Vrukshabandhan with various schools and around 500 children in Vadodara to take a responsibility to protect a tree by tying a thread around the canopy and celebrated Vrukshabandhan on the occasion

TO VADODARA WITH LOVE

Valentine’s day is the day where you express your love and what better day, we could find to express our love for the city of Vadodara. We launched initiative ‘Chain of Change’ and as the first event under that was ‘To Vadodara with love’.
We organised cleanliness awareness drive in the city and performed a survey of the shop keepers to understand the challenges in local perspective.
In this initiative, we involved citizens of Vadodara to join us in swacchta rallies and helped them take initiatives on their own for their neighbourhood

REFLECTION:  PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION

Reflection, an annual international photography competition which took place online on the official page of Baroda Strickers for 3 years consecutively. Subjects were given on the theme of Nature and wildlife in the competition with the aim of raising awareness to conserve endangered species and forest areas and encourage people to spend more time in nature and appreciate it with their lenses.

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The photographers participated in this competition from around 8 countries. Top 35 entries were selected from a huge number or entries by public voting for exhibition in the art gallery with top 3 winning entries selected by eminent jury. This event got tremendous response from the youth across globe.

PLEDGE CAMPAIGNS 

The members reached out to people and interacted with them explained people how they can make small changes in their daily life to contribute something for the environment. They asked people to take various pledge regarding planting more trees, saving water, saving electricity, reducing plastic use etc and encouraged citizens to be part of the initiatives. We received more than 1000 pledge signatures and support of all the age groups for this small activity to celebrate earth day. Every day should be earth day was the message we conveyed and sensitized people to come forward to take part in activities

PLANTATION DRIVES 

Plantation drives has been one of our major activities because it is important to preserve what is left and restore what we have already lost. With the green cover decrease the air quality reduces and affects overall wellbeing of every citizen. It also helps to plant a sense of responsibility in the students from their early age to take care of their surroundings

AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS ON UTTARAYAN

Uttarayan festival is very popular and widely celebrated in all across Gujarat. With all the fun we also face environmental challenges for the birds getting injured, littering around the streets, accidents and pollution. We thought to spread the message and reach people in unique way by written messages on kites and the link to join the initiative with it.

TU SAMBHAL JAA – THE EARTH SONG

I believe Art and Music is the best way to convey a message and express. Keeping that in mind our long wish of launching and environmental song of our own came true when we made Tu Sambhal jaa – The earth song. The song is written and sung by me (Prarthi Shah) and Kavya shah, composed by the band Ahmon and along with male singer Aditya Gautam.
The song tells you the story of the nature once being so beautiful and untouched like a dream and how it slowly starts to vanish when the industrialisation and commercialisation increased. Tu Sambhal ja in Hindi means that you have to start to be careful now and stop the irreparable loss of natural resources. The song is made in Hindi language to reach larger audience and it is composed in Desh raag. Video was appreciated by many environmental experts and it was shared widely for the awareness purpose. The video song is available on youtube to listen –
Link – www.youtube.com/watch?v=05m4_7f4Wjs

SADBHAVNA – MOMENTS OF JOY

This event is an annual activity conducted during the time of Diwali. The team organise event for one of the social causes and celebrate Diwali with under privileged people of Vadodara. The events included, A Diwali celebration in Old age home where the elderly people miss their homes most during the time of the festival. We thought to light up a smile on their faces by going and celebrating the evening to make them feel special.

Spending a day with elderly care centre in Vadodara and celebrated festival day and listened to all their stories. We had an eye-opening experience as a young generation

SAB KI DIWALI

Gifting happiness and making the under privileged people feel like Diwali shopping and celebration Distribution of Sweets, snacks and toys to children

ONE BILLION RISING MOVEMENT

OBR is a global movement for women empowerment and fighting against the abuse. Team Strickers was part of OBR team India and launched the theme song for the movement to support the initiative, the song is available on youtube with name – “OBR-2014 theme song”

PROJECT PADHAAI

Team Baroda Strickers launched a social initiative of teaching 120 slum children called ‘Project Padhaai. In this project the team takes care of the overall learning of the kids by teaching them on Sundays. Also incorporate nature education and prepare them to become future warriors of change. The children are of different ages from KG class to 10 th std. They are provided important life skills with their conventional study. With taking care of their stationary expense and healthy food for Sundays.