Organisation: United Way Delhi
Initiative: Green Your School Program
Website: www.unitedwaydelhi.org
Location: Delhi, India
Green Your School Program is an annual program encouraging schools across India to initiate sustainable ideas to make existing schools’ environment friendly, ergo reducing the carbon footprint. For the purpose of instilling eco-sensitive and responsible behaviour amongst children — the program encourages sustainable ideas from children that are rewarded with grant awards for the implementation of ideas. Further, the project enables the spread of information through peer groups and into the community by finding solutions at an individual level. The objective of United Way Delhi is to introduce new and existing school infrastructures with environment-friendly concepts to reduce the carbon footprint with the support of the industry.
With 16 schools benefitting through the program in the states of Gujarat, Assam, Maharashtra, Hyderabad, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, the winning school receives a grant to implement their idea such as solar panels, kitchen gardens, birdhouses, etc. at the school campus.