Caritas India organizes unique event to ensure children’s good health in Lakhimpur

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LAKHIMPUR: “Our mindset must be changed to ensure comprehensive cleanliness and hygiene in our environment. Students are the carrier of great potentials to herald a new horizon in our society. They can act as environmental activists in their leisure to save our ecosystem and can establish examples for others”, stated Ranjit Kakati in Lakhimpur on Friday. The Swachh Bharat Mission (NAMASTE States) Lakhimpur district Brand Ambassador made this statement while taking part as resource person of an awareness meeting on solid waste management and plastic boycott initiative organized at Dezoo Chah Janajati High School under Naoboicha Block of the district.

The awareness programme was organized under the auspices of Caritas India, a leading non-governmental organization (NGO), in order to sensitize the importance of cleanliness and hygiene with regard to ensuring good health of the children under a unique initiative titled as ‘a community attempt to ensure good health of the children with cleanliness’. The awareness meeting began under the management of WaSH Coordinator of the NGO Japulin Dutta who explained the significance and objectives of of the event. Resource person Ranjit Kakati delivered an elaborate speech on various aspects of solid wastes management appealing all to boycott plastic for the sake of non-polluted environment and human health. He highlighted the adverse effects of the plastic pollution in the environment. “Plastics are made up of a variety of toxic chemicals. As such, its uses and exposure are associated with a number of human health concerns. These chemicals are potent enough to upset the endocrine system and thyroid hormones and can be very destructive to children health and women of reproductive age. Further, plastics wastes have resulted in the destruction and decline in the quality of the earth’s land surfaces and cause water and air pollution”, he added.

In the programme, assistant headmaster of the school Bitul Hatibaruah, Mathematics teacher Saleh Ahmed Mohsin delivered encouraging lectures. The assistant headmaster declared that the school had taken a pledge to create its premises and surrounding areas plastic free from the very next day. An exhibition of various decorative and useful items made of waste matters, like plastic and glass bottles, papers, feathers, thermocol etc., by the students and local people with their particpation was organized with a view to enhancing their innovative capacity to manage the waste matters. Notably, the non-provincialized school, without a suitable academic infrastructure, has produced human resources sprouting the latent talent of students and conducted various cleanliness drives to make the locals aware.

As a part of the Caritas India programme, an awareness rally on cleanliness was taken out with the participation of the students and teachers of the school, along with Dezoo Chah Janajati ME School, members of the parents’ bodies of the schools, WaSh volunteers and Veerangana members of the NGO and local people.

Placards with various slogans, such as— Facility of pure drinking water is our right, Cleanliness is the root of good health, Clean environment is our right, No tree, no life, Use toilets etc., were displayed in the rally.

A series of competitions, like drawing on the theme of cleanliness and dancing were also organized in the programme with a view to enhance the self-confidence, intellect, mentality of the students.

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