We didn’t get to spend
much time in Amaravati. It was just a few hours, where we had a session with
about 30 school children from Gyan Mata School Amaravati, and some college
youth.
Most of them are more comfortable with Marathi, so this
session has a different feel altogether as Allwyn, a Maharashtran local in our team, translated
everything for us all. But I saw that language never stopped us is any session
or interaction as there was always a local with us, and also because any idea
or concept stays the same, regardless of which language it is expressed in. The
young people here knew a lot more than we thought they did about different
issues, but I know they also learned a lot today.
And they were very dynamic in expressing their views and
one main highlight of the day was that they pledged to make their school plastic free by the end of the
interaction! That spread a very happy feeling to everyone around..
And some of the college people asked us if we could arrange
a camp like this session, which is longer and has more information and can help
spread awareness among the people here, because they felt it was a really good
thing for people to learn from and they needed more such programs. Deepika
asked if they were locals. They said yes. Then she said that they could do it too. It doesn’t have to
be just us doing anything, they could fix up something too. And all they had to
do was ask for a little help from the authorities around and anything would be
possible.
They promised to take this initiative us and arrange this
camp for awareness.
This was probably one of the shortest interactions we
had, but one of the most fruitful. We hit the road for Nagpur with happy hearts
and minds.
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