The Green Wave is a global diversity campaign to educate children and youth about the diversity which OISCA has participated since 2008.

The Green Wave campaign carried out worldwide on and around May 22th which is designated as the International day for Biological diversity. OISCA also carried out various activities not only domestic but also international, mainly with CFP participating schools.

Children are contributing to the disaster-resistant and sustainable community development

In the big flood which occurred in Kerala State in August 2018, many schools participants in Children’s Forest Program (CFP) suffered. Students of the disaster-hit high school actively participated in the recovery activities such as clearing damaged school buildings and houses and distributing relief goods. At the same time, they are standing up from the disaster, while learning from the consequences of the environmental destruction, have started the action so that the reconstructed communities could be sustainable. 

Promising community leaders are growing

Assumption AUP School is located along the national road 212 in Bathery, Wayanad District. The school has participated in CFP because teachers wanted to teach children knowledge of flowers and trees.

The children are, not only getting knowledge on trees, but learning many things such as how to plant by tree species and way of taking care of them through practical activities. The children are enjoying, in addition to tree planting, studies on organic agriculture and making a school vegetable garden. 

Voice of joy to first tree planting !

This school is located in an environment where the temperature difference is large; it goes up to 40℃ in summer and goes down to 8℃ in winter. In order to protect children from the severe sunshine, they chose fruit trees and tree species which can bear the cold in winter and planted them at the school. 

OISCA North India has implemented CFP in 1000 schools in 5 states of North India covering rural and urban schools and Government and Non Government schools. For the plantation drives, saplings were distributed to students to encourage them to plant in their homes and communities and about 50,000 saplings have been planted.

ANIRUDH stays near the Kanakalaya Bank .He was disturbed by the fact that outside his compound people were dumping wastes. Every time he returned home he could see the wastes getting accumulated. He tried several ways of telling people not to do, but nothing worked .So he came with a novel idea of planting a garden there. He watered it at night time after his studies and protected it. Now it is a beautiful sight to travelers along Kannur NH.

The news came in Mathrubhumi Daily.We were able to create a sense of environmental sensitivity in our students.

The problem of waste in India is really serious same as the other countries.

The Adrash Vidya Kendra Higher Secondary School had a class about the problem and created awareness about the importance of waste management and the disadvantages of plastics.

Since then children have been trying to reduce usage of plastic and use eco-friendly products. Moreover, children have participated in the rally program conducted by the Tamilnadu State Pollution Control Board, Kanyakumari District and built up a sense of awareness about the environmental problems.

Additional action is increase the usage of organic products as manure. Also the advantage of natural manure was emphasized. The waste products was properly managed and it was used as natural manure.

Children planted sapling in the campus this year too. The ‘Green Drive’ in the school campus initiated four years back and almost 50 species of 150 plants is at different levels of growth around the campus. Children are quite enthusiastic in the planting and up keeping of the trees.

She is the first girl who entered school in her family. The teacher who established the school encouraged her parents to let their children go to school and the school assisted her parents in sending her to school by providing scholarship.

She is a very hard worker in everything. She studies very hard and participates actively in Children's Forest Program, not only she helps her family.

She is a key figure of Children's Forest Program of her school. She always helps CFP coordinator and encourages other children to participate in CFP activities. In 2011, 100 plant-seedlings were planted and she is looking after them with her friends.　

She said, she is learning many things though CFP activities which she did not know before, such as the roles of trees and forest and the importance of separating and recycling waste.

SLB Government Higher Secondary School is situated in the heart of the town, which has a high population density of 1106 per sq.km, where green coverage is very low. Due to population pressure in the town, concrete jungles have mushroomed in the town and the outskirts. Unlike other schools, SLB School is blessed with a vast campus area, with space to plant trees and maintain them. To augment the green coverage, the CFP of the school planted saplings. Students are happy to plant the trees and to maintain them.

The students point out that the trees planted by them, would grow into large trees in future, and they would give shelter to many birds, various living organisms and contribute to reduce global warming and climate change. It may be pointed out here that the school campus is a house of many birds, insects, butterflies and reptiles, due to the prevalence of many trees. Students have planned to plant more trees in the next year also.

Nangli is a poor village where nearly 60% of about 5,000 residents are engaged in agriculture and the rest going out to work in the near-by cities. The majority of the people there don’t finish compulsory education, and this trend is remarkable particularly among the women.

 After having observed the situation in the village, Mr. Habinda Singh launched a slogan: “give education to this village”, and started the school with 5 students in 2005. It was a big challenge also for the OISCA staff to carry out the Children’s Forest Program in such a place. At first, the school started with tree planting. But there was not enough space in the school, and so, consulted with the village, and it was agreed to plant trees in the park adjacent to the school.

The school intends to plant about 100 trees each every year. As for other activities, the school staged theater plays with the theme of environmental problem in the village plaza. Although the plays were staged without any notice, many village people came over to watch the performance. The children are feeling highly rewarded because even if many villagers are illiterate, they can still learn something about environmental problems.

(Model National School, Nangli Village)

Program starting year: 2009 Number of students: 460

To observe the International Bio Diversity Day, around 100 students of Class VII and VII of DAV school, Noida had visited Botanic Garden of Indian Republic at Noida on 18th May, 2011.

Mr. Ranjeet and Mr. Jagdish, OISCA staff were the resource person for the Nature Tour. Students saw and also learnt about different kinds of trees, their uses. A lecture was given on the Bio Diversity and need to plant more trees.

The duration of the tour was of two hours. The tour started from 7.30 am to 9.30 am.