This year for Global Youth Service Day, the new theme was Ecology: Caring For the Planet, where volunteers were asked to strategize plans to work towards saving the planet.
Delhi Public School, Srinagar adopted a local school at Chandhara Village four years ago that harbors about 130 students from classes Pre-nursery to 8th. The motive of the school is to work towards the betterment of the children at the local school by providing them with quality education and better infrastructure to meet its goal. Therefore, for the event of Global Youth Service Day, Srinagar chapter thought of conducting an activity day with the children of the local school. The objective of this activity day was to give them a break from their academic oriented curriculum. Since the theme for the event was “Care for Planet”, the chapter looked forward to activities involving paper recycling. About 130 students from the local school took part in the activity day conducted on 7 May 2017. 11 volunteers along with a teacher from the school took part in the activity day. The group of 130 children were further divided into 4 groups on the basis of their age and each group was headed by a group leader, accompanied by 2-3 volunteers, made paper boat, paper hat, hand fan, envelope and paper bag using newspaper. Bookmark and booklet using craft paper.
Apart from that, the school provided almost 100 books from the library for the purpose of donation.