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| TFI Impact |
Vision
Enabling individuals & communities to rely on Green energy sources, promoting sustainable living practices integrated with values and ethics of caring for nature and the world around us.
Mission
Our Mission is to nurture imagination, instill curiosity, incept innovation, and bolster confidence in young minds with the motto of DIY to enhance their leadership potential towards maintaining sustainable relation with natural environment
About Teach For Green
We believe in Teach For Green stands for
Teach- Learning by Doing with group involvement
Green- Growth with resource enhancement & sustainability.
Why Teach For Green
The organisation works towards providing life skills training to students with sensitisation towards environmental & climate issues at individual, household and community level. Despite leaps of modernisation in technology, over 30% of rural households in India still live in darkness.
On the other hand, there is a lack of development of individual personality, activity based learning, and parental engagement child’s development. All these factors discourage them from attending school on a regular basis and hence significant dropout happens.
To tackle these problems, Teach For Green is an initiative that provides essential learning, training and skill development to the child. Skill development activities can help them understand the importance of learning and finding solutions for grassroots problems which will be sustainable in the long run. A child spends the majority of his/her time in out-of-school setting.
The families in low-income groups lack the awareness, capacity, and capability to engage effectively in their child’s development. This can be attributed to low level of education and exposure of the parents. Our hands-on activities are child-centric which helps them to think creatively and innovatively, towards participative learning which simulate their thought process.
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It will contribute towards personality development as well as skill development which encourage them to be attentive in school, to enhance their performance in exams and also in co-curricular activities. Our focus is to enable them in discussing and solving community level environmental & waste management issues on their own and this will help in rebuilding the faith of parents and community on school system and will also empower them to contribute to their child’s development.
What TFG Do
For past many years, there are organisations both government and civil societies which are working on improving the education system on subjective and curriculum manner. There has been a significant increase in programs to spread awareness in the areas of green and clean environment like promoting green energy products, climate change, waste management, sanitation, and different types of pollution regarding research, awareness, and development.
This happens in two different manners. First, there are institutions which are providing environmental education only in a superficial manner which distracts and not sensitise the citizens of its real importance on an individual and societal level. On the other hand, there are organisations which are working on manufacturing different kind of products on green energy and waste management.
These organisations are also advertising and promoting the sales of these commodities. The problem with these products is that they are not sustainable in the longer run and these are just promotional activities for some business organisations for profit making . Also, problems with repair and maintenance of these products persist if there is some technical snag with wire or fuse. In that case the whole product becomes garbage.
In our innovation, we are linking both the problems discussed above. We are not working on the environmental issues superficially; we have designed simple and interactive modules using circuit designing and associated activities which involve simple and indigenous components. It’s a Do It Yourself approach for designing a workable model using recyclable materials from the households and surroundings.
We show them the impact of unclean and green environment and enable them to choose the one which they think is best for them. Our primary objective is to reach out to young school going students who lack interest in learning and not involving themselves in the activities of their interest due to lack of proper resources, hands-on activities and proper mobilisation. When young minds experience something themselves, it leads to change in the habits and helps them become a change maker.
