Another plastic- project!

 "How can we make people aware of the 'plastic problem' in this village?"

We are still working on the trash problem in Jagaraga and trying to involve the villagers as well.

The question above is what the kids concentrated on over the last two weeks.

They were split in three groups and had to think of ideas of how to make people aware of the problems in the village, create a concept and realize it by themselves.

We wanted to let the kids think of something by themselves, without us interfering, so they basically managed the entire project by themselves. It was great to see what good things they thought of.

 Two of the groups decided to make banners to hang up in the village and the third group made handbags from plastic trash to keep for themselves and give away to villagers.

For two of the projects they needed trash so they just started by collectiong plastic around the village.

They took the trash to the Oasis and washed it.

 

 

The first group made a banner with plastic trash. They sew the plastic letters on to the white cloth.

When they were done, they hung it up at the bazar of the village for everyone to read.

The banner says something like: "Scared of illnesses? Then you should pay attantion to cleanliness and mind that the trash is dangerous".

Group two decided to make a banner without using trash.

They hung it up in front of the Oasis.

 The banner says something like: 

"Can we keep our village clean? Yes we can, as long as we...

A: don't throw our trash just everywhere.

B: pick up trash if we see it and always throw trash into a trash can."

The third group made the plastic handbags. It was a lot of work!

They had to do a lot of sewing as well...good thing they are so good at it! :)

Those are some of the bags they made.

They turned out really cute, with bows, flowers and all this girly stuff!