Community Recycling Campaign- For a Better Tomorrow

ADOPT-A-SCHOOL Selection Criteria

Why Adopt-A-School Program?

In India, recycling concept is still new in many cities, villages, and in schools. Most recent studies show that plastic pollution is one of major concern in Indian villages. People usually throw the plastic bottles to road side and mostly people are not aware of plastics how does it impact to the environment and to the animals. Because the plastic is cheap it gets discarded easily and its persistence in the environment can do great harm. Plastic thrown on land can enter into drainage lines and chokes them resulting into floods in local areas in cities. It was claimed in one of the programs on TV Channel that eating plastic bags results in death of 100 cattle per day in U.P. in India. In stomach of one dead cow, as much as 35 kg of plastic was found. Because plastic does not decompose, and requires high energy ultra-violet light to break down, the amount of plastic waste in our oceans is steadily increasing.

CRC started an initiative (ADOPT-A-SCHOOL program) to raise recycling awareness and to run some small recycling projects in adopted schools and near villages in AP State, India. As part of this program we collect donations from donors and we will sponsor initial funding (Approx. $225 or Rs10,000) to start a knowledge center /language library in each adopted school. School management will allocate a room to display different languages laminated sheets, categories including- recycling options, science, language, history, math materials etc. School team will collect donations locally to enhance the knowledge center with new material for display. Each school will encourage students to start small recycling projects in their school to support “Reduce Reuse, and Recycle” and spread the recycling awareness in near villages. Students will learn the many uses we have for our natural resources and why we need to be conscious of what we throw away.

We believe recycling plays an important role in improving the quality of life in our communities and securing our children’s future. We would like to expand this program to many schools and villages to raise the recycling awareness with donors help.

Criteria For School Selection

School management should be able to provide a dedicated class room or an individual room to develop a knowledge center.
School management should be able to assign a teacher or volunter to run monitor/manage the knowledge center.
School coordinator should be able to run fundraising campaign with students help to collect funds from individuals and residents who live in near by villages to enhance the knowledge center.
For a school to be eligible to become an CRC Adopted school, we require firstly demonstrable evidence of the acute needs of the school.
School must ascertain the willingness on the part of the school governing body to participate and accept responsibility for the CRC project. We also require confidence that the School should be able to implement recycling programs efficiently.
It is important for the school to have a committed and dedicated school teacher or volunteer to oversee the knowledge center development.
We thus assess the above criteria , as well as the willingness of our donors to contribute to the adopted school, and the determination of the school management to participate and utilize the knowledge center facility.
Once the project is underway, CRC India team and School coordinator will work with local organizations to accept donations to enhance the knowledge center.