SUPA REPORT

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INTRODUCTION
We are a registered as a trust under Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960. The
registration info is SOR/BLU/DR/08-09.
KSHITI foundation was started with a small group of dedicated and passionate young social
activists about making a difference in society by launching plantation program in Bangalore
University, Bangalore Karnataka. Now plantation programs have been extended to all over
Karnataka.
1.1 VISION OF KSHITI
The vision of KSHITI foundation to create sensitivity towards environment & towards
awakens the philanthropic side of mankind. We shall facilitate contribution from everyone
who would like to enrich human lives in a significant way and also is to be the leader of a
web-enabled, cost effective service to individuals and companies globally to enable the
planting of trees.
Why trees? Because tree planting creates low-skill jobs, and trees provide benefit to current
and future generations, have a direct impact on carbon reduction, restoring forests, improving
wildlife habitats, and upgrading water catchment areas, and offer flowers, fruit fodder and
fuel for local communities and all living creatures.
1.2 MISSION OF KSHITI
The mission of KSHITI foundation is to engage people in society, empower each one to come
together in action to enrich communities through sustainable modes of development.
Trees for the future is dedicated to planting trees with rural communities in the developing
world, enabling them to restore their environment, grow more food, and build a sustainable
future.

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ABOUT KSHITI
2.1 Projects Handled By KSHITI
There are many projects handled my KSHITI. A few of them like CHAITRA, UDYAMA and
SANDHYA DEEPA are among the major projects. A brief description about their projects
are given below.
2.1.1 CHAITRA
CHAITRA denotes the onset of spring and the joys of a new year. A project by KSHITI, it
aims at creating awareness about environmental protection and plantation of trees on a
massive scale. The intention of the project is to green the earth and create awareness to
empower masses so as to cause expanded results.
Why CHAITRA?
Bangalore once a Green city is now a growing concrete jungle. Population is exploding as
people are flooding in to make their living. Traffic and noise has increased exponentially,
water resources are depleting and people are exposed to a lot of stress which results in major
health hazards. It is alarming that today Bangalore is one of the highly polluted cities in Asia.
Though we are inching towards economic advancement we are unaware of the environmental
degradation caused by us. If no significant effort is made towards conserving the environment
we may have to face extreme climatic conditions. The Objectives we seek is:-
1. Creating awareness about environmental protection and global warming mainly in
schools and colleges.
2. Identifying open spaces to create tree parks.
3. Tree plantation drives in institutional lands like schools, colleges, hospitals, corporate
premises, roadside/residential layouts and facilitate plantation of trees.
The story so far We have created awareness about environmental protection by screening
informative documentary, presentation, distribution and plantation of saplings among 1120
school children, associated with corporates for plantation along the roadsides and facilitated
with companies to plant saplings in and around their premises. We have accomplished
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having identified people who will be responsible to water & nurture the saplings. The
programs also we conduct is school-to-school program. We are eager to imprint ideas of
environmental awareness among school children in the class 4 to class 7. The project will be
conveying concepts of environmental protection and regular practices that could be adopted
in daily life to reduce degradation of resources. This age group has been chosen as it is
known to leave profound impact on the young minds and that they will carry it way
throughout their lives and also teach others. Starting from the 22nd of September, the initial
plan is for 3 months involving about 12 schools. We will conduct events like painting, debate,
essay writing, quizzing that will ignite their minds and encourage them to think and act to
ensure environmental conservation. The project is being led by KSHITI members with help
from some volunteers.
2.1.2 UDYAMA
UDYAMA means livelihood. A project by KSHITI, conceived to empower people develops
themselves, gain respect in the community, find new avenues of income and bring joy to their
lives. In turn, the empowered people are being an inspiration for everyone around them.
Why UDYAMA?
The programs we conducted Kannamangala village program. The Village name is
Kannamangala, about 22kms from Yelahanka, Bangalore. There are about 18 physically
challenged people here, below the poverty line. Earning additional income has been difficult
for them, in addition to being neglected in the village. They also have a self-help group of
their own. In order to empower this group through the vision of the Udyama program, we
devised an accessible and sustainable activity for them. The village is an Areca nut growing
area. We brought in the equipment and modified the technology to suit their needs. Now they
are able to create eco-friendly plates from Areca nut leaves, which are marketed through
developed channels. The program not only gave them income, also gave them self-esteem,
the courage within, to grow, & go ahead like any normal people in life. It made them feel
they were not incapable. It has brought them not only joy, but also, a new lease of vigor &
enthusiasm to work. After the villagers were educated about rights of physically challenged
people, as part of this program, they have gone ahead and requested the panchayat in their
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up to add more programs in this category, and turn it into a small scale industry, train them
how to run it, leave it to them completely.
2.1.3 SANDHYA DEEPA
SANDHYA DEEPA, it means evening light, a guiding light in the darkness after dusk. A
project by KSHITI, initially the goal is to provide quality and durable lighting to the village
community. We try to increase the villager’s productive hours after sunset by providing them
lights powered by solar energy. Reliable, safe and affordable access to efficient power for all
is the overarching goal of this project.
Why SANDHYA DEEPA?
For millions of villagers across India, life comes to a halt at sunset – with no electricity, there
is no light, so no ability to work. Having spent the major part of the day in the fields, the
villagers can do little productive work in the darkness. Many of the modern amenities that we
take for granted today are still out of bounds for the typical villager in the Indian countryside.
We intend to change this status quo, provide an uplifting environment for development of
their skills and help them enrich their lives.
Our thrust is initially on providing public access lighting systems to areas lacking these basic
facilities. Our course of action is identifying the villages which do not have power supply.
Installing street lights in these villages, powered by solar energy, providing training to the
people about the maintenance of solar lights. We will be seeking support from governmental
organizations, like KREDL, and also other local NGO’s. How can we involve people and
take their help? You can be a Partner Sponsor and Donor Volunteer and together with your
help; we can make a difference in bringing light to families in dark.by this programs what we
are conducting. We intend to start village surveys in the near future, and then list out the
requirements in terms of the feasibility, need, funding etc. A set of villages near B.R. Hills,
Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka have been shortlisted for surveying. We are trying to seek
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2.2 My Contributions at KSHITI
My work at KSHITI was a challenging one consists of different types of activities. It gave
me a chance to put my managerial skills into use for the betterment of the society. The SUPA
at KSHITI was going to be a learning experience for me and I was ready to pour my heart
out during my internship with them.
I started my SUPA internship on the 24th December 2014. On the first day I met with the
President Siddalinga Prasad. I got a project there called I OWN A TREE. He guided me
throughout the internship period. As an MBA student, I had a lot to contribute to my NGO.
My stint at KSHITI was very enriching since I was involved in a lot of activities like creating
awareness about trees, finding sponsor for tree, arranging place for tree plantation and its
functions in the process I ended up learning a lot. I put in a lot of hard work and was happy to
know that I could live up to the expectations of the NGO.
2.2.1 I Own A Tree
A silent “green revolution” is in the making in India’s tech hub Bangalore as citizens come
together to sponsor trees to save the city’s “green heritage” which has of late come under
threat owing to development activities.
The unique program christened “I OWN A TREE”, jointly started by Bangalore-based
environment group ECO CLUB and KSHITI foundation, allows a person to sponsor and
own a tree for two years.
The concept of sponsoring of trees by Bangaloreans is to connect people with the trees by
establishing a special emotional bond through ownership.”
The program allows a person to sponsor and own a tree for two years by paying Rs.365.
“During the first two years of the sapling’s life, ECO CLUB and KSHITI will take care of
the sponsored tree. The sponsor can come and visit the tree whenever he wishes. One can also
volunteer and help in planting saplings.
Everyone who is part of the plantation drive has been issued a special sticker which says “I
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“The sticker can be proudly displayed on vehicles, homes, offices, etc. Individuals will be
provided with complete information about the type of the tree planted in his/her name and all
necessary education required for caring and nurturing the tree they own.
The concept of “I OWN A TREE” has been designed to bring in the much—needed bonding
of people with the environment and also by owing tree you are not saving environment but
also you are giving a new life. How? We all know that birds made their nest on trees so when
you plant trees; birds will come and make their nest and will give birth to their baby. So by
this “I OWN A TREE” you will benefit to environment and also will help to a new life.

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Activity 1: Induction Programs
I started my project with induction program. They taught me some amazing facts about trees.
Why trees in context of India, The Generosity of trees, Incredible facts about trees,
Fascinating facts about trees.
TREES IN CONTEXT OF INDIA: 9.5 billion.........For year 2050 this is the estimated
world's population. This estimation of world's population is very important in context of
India, as our country shares about 16 percent of world's population and 15 percent of its
livestock but just 2.4 percent of its land area and only 1.7 percent of its forest cover.
According to facts India's annual population increase is equal to the total population of
Australia. The pressure of the development and even more the pressure of rapidly growing
population has become very high matter of concern for all of us as; now we have created
immense pressure over all our natural resources which are rapidly decreasing with passing
days and becoming scarce.
Increasing pressure of population and development verses rapidly decreasing rate of natural
resources has left us in big state of dilemma where sustainability of life on earth for all of us
is agonizing issue.
Here consider few more facts form some reports which states that in the year 2050 there's
going to be at least 200 million of climate refuges around the world. Taking this fact into
considerations we can easily imagine about the situation of our country by 2050 which shares
largest population in the world.
All the facts and figures ever given over environmental degradation just point outs towards
one basic fact that there is something very wrong with our living habits. We are not at all in
the harmony with the nature... well not any more now. We are actually not consuming the
natural resources but in fact we are exploiting them to a large extent. This exploitation of
natural resources has acted as a catalyst in the degradation of earth's life. Clearly our rate of
exploitation of natural resources is 1000 times more than earth's ability to rejuvenate them.
So it's all true that we have created imbalance and a great threat to sustainability of life on
earth through our irresponsible habits and activities as a consumer. In the words of leading
environmental activist and Former US vice president Al Gore, "Environment conservation is
really not much of a political issue but it is actually a moral issue"
India as a country is blessed with a rich ecological resources and just before last century we
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indigenous means. But increasing rate of degradation of natural resources and rapid increase
of population has harmed it severely. We just cannot follow the western model of
development because our need and values are much more different in many terms.
In our country environmental imbalance started when we started exploiting ecology of our
two major natural weather and water control towers, first one is the Himalaya and second is
the Western Ghats of our country.
Himalayan regions and Western Ghats plays key role in nurturing life in our country but with
each passing day ecological health of these regions has degraded severely and that has
created threat to our very own existence.
From past century the behaviour of monsoon in India has been very volatile and caused many
major droughts and floods. Large part of Indian Territory comes under threat of major soil
erosion, North India is highly sensitive towards landslides and Eastern India is also prone to
major floods and also in south and west we are losing our coastal sides. Consequences of
environmental degradation are taking place in the large section of India.
In making any efforts towards the development we first need to learn that environmental
conservation is very important aspects of sustainable development. Sustainable development
as defined, "The Development that meets the need of present without compromising the
ability of the future generation to meet their needs". A development is a development in
its true sense only when it's sustainable one.
In Working towards the mutual goal of sustainability through environment conservation it's
essential that we all should make commitment to ourselves towards conservation of fragile
and diverse ecologies like Himalaya ecology.
It's is all true that we all are going through greatest conflict of our History but its better if we
don't make any mistake by taking nature against us in this conflict but instead nature is
supporting us through making regular warnings.
Truth is we are facing ourselves, we are standing against us.... and it's only us who can save
ourselves.
Humans have the strength that cannot be measured, whether its destruction or it's towards the
conservation. All we need to do is to grow our perspective and make certain shifts in it. It's us
who still can create the legacy of sustainable development once again, for ourselves and for
our future generations.
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measures... So we should not make any mistake about it and accept the fact that we are not
left with much of time to start working towards environment conservation as if it's now then
it's never.
THE GENEROSITY OF TREES: If you would know strength and patience welcome the
company of trees quoted by American author and journalist “Hal Borland”.
 Trees filter our air and keep it fresh by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
 Tree roots stabilize the soil and prevent erosion.
 Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rain water as well as protect
aquifers and watersheds.
 Trees are carbon sinks, accumulating carbon as they grow and acting as stable carbon
stores upon maturity
 Three-quarters of the world's people rely on wood as their main source of energy.
 Thousands of things are made from trees such as furniture, books, newspapers, houses,
hockey sticks, guitars, pencils, fences, milk cartons, even nail polish and toothpaste.
 Trees lower air temperature and induce rainfall by evaporating water from their leaves.
 Trees provide food, shade and shelter to humans and wildlife.
 Trees offer protection from the downward fall of rain, sleet and hail as well as reduce
storm run-off and the possibility of flooding.
 Trees act as sound barriers to reduce noise pollution.
 Trees play a major role in helping to conserve the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field.
INCREDIBLE FACTS ABOUT TREES: It will never rain roses when we want to have
more roses we must plant more trees quoted by “George Eliot”.
Oldest: Found in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in California, the oldest tree
recognized is a Redwood known as Eternal God. The tree is believed to be 12,000 years old,
although it is argued as being only 7,000 years old, which still makes it the oldest.

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Slowest: A White Cedar located in the Great Lakes area of Canada, has only grown to less
than 4 inches tall during its 155 years.
Tallest: In 1872, an Australian Eucalyptus at Watts River, Victoria in Australia was said to
measure to 435 feet, but it is speculated that it probably measured to over 500 feet at some
point in its life. The tallest living tree is a Coast Redwood known as the "Mendocino Tree"
found in Montgomery State Reserve in California. This tree, which is over 1000 years old,
is more than 367 feet and 6 inches tall and still growing.
Most Massive: The "Lindsey Creek Tree", a Coast Redwood with a minimum trunk
volume of 90,000 cubic feet and a minimum total mass of 3630 tons was the most massive
known tree until it blew over in a storm in 1905. The most massive living tree is "General
Sherman", a giant sequoia found in the Sequoia National Park in California. It is 275 feet
tall with a girth of 102 feet and 8 inches.
Deepest Roots: A Wild Fig tree at Echo Caves, near Ohrigstad, Mpumalanga, South Africa
has roots reaching 400 feet making it the deepest a tree’s roots have penetrated.
Fastest Growing: In 1974, it was noted that an Albizzia falcata in Sabah, Malaysia had
grown 35 feet and 3 inches in 13 months: an approximate of 1.1 inches per day.
Greatest Girth: In the late 18th century a European Chestnut known as the Tree of the
Hundred Horses on Mount Etna in Sicily, in Italy had a circumference of 190 feet. It has
since separated into three parts.
Most Dangerous: The Manchineel Tree of the Caribbean coast and the Florida Everglades
is a species that secretes an exceptionally poisonous and acid sap. Upon contact to the skin,
a break out of blisters would occur. In the occasions where there is contact to the eye, a
person can be blinded, and a bite of its fruit causes blistering and severe pain. This tree has
been feared ever since the Spanish explorers came to the Americas in the 16th century.
FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT TREES: I think the tree is an element of regeneration
which in itself is a concept of time quoted by German performance artist “Joseph Beuys”.
 There are about 20,000 tree species in the world. India has one of the largest tree
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 No tree dies of old age. They are generally killed by insects, disease or by people.
California Bristlecone Pines and Giant Sequoias are regarded as the oldest trees and have
been known to live 4,000 to 5,000 years.
 Trees grow from the top, not from the bottom as is commonly believed.
 Trees receive an estimated 90% of their nutrition from the atmosphere and only 10%
from the soil.
 About one-half the weight of dry wood is carbon.
 In ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq), the value of wood was equal to that of precious
gemstones and metals.
 Rome’s monetary system was based on silver which required huge quantities of wood to
convert ore into metal.
 Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree's age by its rings.
 Tree rings provide precise information about environmental events, including volcanic
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Activity 2: Awareness Programin Schools
Event no.1: Prathama School, Uttarahali, Bangalore
Event Leader: Ravi Ranjan Kumar Singh.
Support Team: Anil, Girish, Sanjeev and Sushma.
Target: Children 1 to 7th Class.
Strength: 425
My first school-to-school program was my second activity in KSHITI. It was a lot of fun for
me to be part of the activity for the first time, and with lots of KSHITI members to help me
out too. Now this school was literally a home away from home, with the head miss office in
a garage and students on colorful benches. In this grand scheme of things we took over the
driveway for our introduction, and tried to shout down the honking autos and bellowing
cows.
The flow of events was expected to be the same as last time,
1. An introduction for 15-20 minutes
A little haphazard with the content, and i have no idea how much time this actually took.
Initially had planned to have this separately for each of the 'batches' but then decided to go
with the larger crowd, which meant the content was a little out of place for the younger
ones.
2. Couple of videos for 15 mins
As there was a single laptop we had to split up the show for the assembled group, and we
finished both of these within an hour of the start.
3. Move children into groups based on their age groups and give them some activities
We now moved the children back to classrooms; this should have been handled well
because the students now ended up in 'mixed' sections. So the explaining of the activities
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a few of the students had brought their own sets too. The older students meanwhile had
some writing and detective work to take care of, and all of this took another 45 mins.
4. Distribute the saplings
We decided against moving the students to the porch again, and so took the saplings to the
classroom and had snaps with some excited students. The activity took the last 15 mins of
the event and was over by 12pm.
5. Close the event
The school closes @12 on Saturdays, so the students gradually drifted out. We then had a
couple of pics with the staff, thanked them for their support, the free coffee/biscuits and left
the place. Oh yes, and what’s more we did collect 365/- as donation from this event, which
more than covered our expenses.
The batches and the activities were,
Class 1-3 + LKG/UKG: Coloring some sheets which had different eco-friendly messages,
and a set of Do's and Don’ts for them to follow.
Class 4-5: Pairs of sketches representing Do's and Don’ts for everyday situations, they had
to pick out the one which was more 'ecovisable'. And a set of eco favorable activities set
against days in the week, so that they could put it up on their door at home and tick these
out as they perform them.
Class 6-7: A sketch of wildly thrown set of objects on a trail, students had to pick out
objects which can be recycled and list out some ways in which a few of those could be
recycled.
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Event no.2: Government Higher Primary School, Ashoknagar, Bangalore
Support Team: Anuradha, Girish, Mangala, Sanjeev, Vaishnavi.
Strength: 200
This school-to-school was most remarkable in terms of how well prepared we should be
when things go wrong. I was supposed to lead the event and things didn’t go well from
morning. For starters I was delayed because of parental obligations and just when one would
think the ordeal had come to an end I discovered I forgot the material I was supposed to
distribute among the children. In the meantime, while I was still on my way fighting the
Bangalore traffic, Vaishnavi had started talking to the children and Girish, after knowing
that I did not have the material, acted immediately and got the material from other sources. I
must say that Vaishnavi and Girish deserve the credit for saving the day. By the time I
reached the school Vaishnavi was half way through the presentation and Girish had got the
material and also the saplings to distribute among the children. Communicating with the
children was extremely difficult and I could see that our group’s patience was wearing thin.
We went through the normal procedure of telling the children about environmental
conservation and they were listening with some attention during the presentation, looking at
the colorful pictures and listening to the educational cartoon session. Apart from that they
were quite unruly to the group and hardly paid attention to what we were saying. Vaishnavi
did a stupendous job in handling the children. Girish was not new to the school as he had
spoken to the children before and had gained some recognition there. I should also add that
Anuradha madam and Mangala madam helped us in every possible way, especially in
controlling the children. Sanjeev’s colleague Vijay chipped in as an enthusiastic volunteer
and Basavaraj too did his bit. After the presentation we broke them up in to smaller groups
and gave them material to draw/work with; this went almost as planned. On a positive note,
things moved on, whether the event leader could deliver or not. And I am glad that we did
what we had to do. Even if one child in that school understood
what we were trying to teach it is our gain. I cannot thank everyone enough for their
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provided did not really work with the children of this school. We were not amused that none
of the teachers tried to handle the children and we had to monitor them all by ourselves. My
team worked well under crisis and I felt really proud that what as a manger I have to manage
in fewer resources I was able to deliver what was my job.
Event no.3: Indu Raman Primary, Katriguppe, Bangalore
Support Team: Vaishnavi, Anil, Smita, Vinay.
Strength: 70
As part of our School-to-School Initiative, we conducted the environment awareness
program at Indu Raman Primary, Katriguppe, Bangalore. The context was already set when
Vaishnavi (Thanks to her since headmiss doesn’t understand hindi or english) had
approached the Headmiss of the school and conveyed to her what we do at Kshiti
Foundation and the activities we want to organize at their school. Thanks to Anil and Vinay
who joined hands with me to carry out the activity well in time. While I was planning for
the content of the event, I found a lot of useful and very relevant new material. Some good
videos, information oriented games and quiz. The layout of the program playing
Environment related Video which gives a picture of environmental degradation we have
today which is understandable to kids. Playing a Song that talks about day to day activities
one could do to save Earth, presentation of a sapling, one per class and asking the students
to take care of them. We divided the children into batches: Batch A: 1 and 2 Std. Activities
for which were: Coloring Endangered species, coloring a drawing where plantation is
happening. Batch B: 3 and 4 Std: Activities for which were: Answering the do's and don'ts
questions, playing simple Sudoku recycler. Batch C: 5, 6 and 7 Std: Activities for which
were: Quiz asking questions about how should they carry themselves daily to conserve
nature. In the end, when we presented the kids with the saplings they were screaming with
joy. Smita also made an appeal for donations. We were told in the beginning by the
Headmiss that the children were from lower classes and we could not expect any donation
from them. But after the appeal we found Rs.7 in the donation box. One coin of Rs 5, One
of Re.1 and two of 50ps. It was amazing and Invaluable!!

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Event no.4: Anatha Shishu Vihara, Bangalore
Support Team: Vaishnavi, Vinay, Anil, Deepti, Girish, Sushma.
Strength: 175
This week’s event was really special for a few reasons: The event was held at Anatha Shishu
Vihara, an orphanage. It was the chosen place after a lot of search by Vaishnavi, Smita,
Anil, Deepthi and myself for a school which they could not find due to schools being closed
for census activity.
We got a go ahead from Mr. Raghavendra, the manager of the place. We had to skip the
programs for nursery since they had gone to school. All volunteers met at the entrance, had a
creation meeting to know the flow of event, the activities and responsibilities.
Introduction and Grouping: 10:40 to s11:00
The event started by a briefing the gathering of children to tell why was we there. Then the
children were made into 3 groups.
Jala : Class I & II
Bhoomi : Class III & IV
Vaayu : Class V & VI
Senior Volunteers events: 11:00 to 11:20
We started to set-up the laptops ready to show the video. It was at this time all the elder
members of volunteers kept all the engaged all the children by teaching them songs and
“vogata”s. Then we started moving the children into separate rooms to start talks & their
activities.
Tasks & Activities : 11:20 to 12:15
Group Jala:
Video on environment & recycling song.
 Talk on do’s and don’ts to save our environment.
 Crayon colouring on outlines of Plantation, endangered species, flower pot, butterfly
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Group Bhoomi:
Video on Birds (Thanks to the creator Vaishnavi), environment & recycling song.
 Talk on do’s and don’ts to save our environment.
 Class 3 did Painting on large A3 sheets with outline of plantation and endangered
species
 Class 4 did the painting on plain sheets. One painting of solar system was super.
Group Vaayu:
Video on Birds (Thanks to the creator Vaishnavi), environment & recycling song (Done
along Bhoomi)
 Talk on do’s and don’ts to save our environment.(Done along with Bhoomi)
 Sudoku of endangered species (6 out of 8 Children completed correctly)
Display of Activity output: 12:15 to12:30
This was one of the most important parts of the event. We put all the colouring, paintings
and Sudoku’s done by children on display for everyone to have a look in the big dining area.
It was nice to see what all children can do.
Sapling distribution: 12:30 to 12:45
Three saplings were given away to each of the 3 groups to take off. Children were really
happy to receive them. One we had brought for the nursery was handed to the staff of the
centre. Mr. Raghavendra told the students to take care of the garden which was about
expanding by lot of new plants planned. Special thanks to Girish who had brought
chocolates for the children.
End:
The event ended by acknowledging the entire team of volunteers and support team. Some of
the members who had brought some clothes and toys to donate did that. This was the reverse
of normal practice since we were at an orphanage.

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Event no.5: BTL School, Banashankari, Bangalore
Support Team: Vaishnavi, Vinay, Anil, Deepti, Girish, Sushma, Sneha, Anuradha, Anant,
Sachet.
Strength: 700
The event was held at BTL Vidya Vahini after a rigorous school search by Sushma,
Vaishnavi Deepti, Smita, Kiran and myself. Thanks to each one of you for your efforts and
cheers to the commitment of the event to the event schedule.
I met School Head Miss, introduced and explained the detail of the programme which was
lined up for them. Class teacher of 6th STD also was available for the meeting. We were also
asked to include class 9 students also in the event as they were few in numbers. I and
volunteers met at the class and we had a creation meeting to know the flow of event, the
activities and responsibilities.
Grouping: 09:50 to 10:15
The event started by a briefing the gathering of children to tell why was we there in separate
groups. Class 5 & 6, Class 7, 8 & 9
Video presentation and explanation: 10:30 to 11:15
Laptops were organized by Sushma and Kiran for the groups. 5th and 6th were taken on by
Sushma, Sneha, Anuradha, Anant and Sacheth.
Video on environment –Museum & recycling song.
 Good show by Sushma and Good support from Anuradha and Sacheth
7th 8th and 9th were taken up by Anil, Kiran, and Deepti.
 Video on Water conservation and Birds.
School teachers also participated in the discussion which was a feel good factor.

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Tasks & Activities: 11:20 to 12:15
Class 5: Crayon and Water painting:
Team Lead: Deepti and Anuradha.
1. Organising of the activities being and sharing along with the children.
2. Drawing pictures related to environment on a plain A4 sheet, of their choice and
colouring
3. Deepti and Anuradha were very patiently involved with the children.
Class 6: Sudoku Activity (of endangered species):
Team Lead: Vaishnavi.
This activity was new one for the class and the children were excited to learn this.
Tactfully handled by Vaishnavi.
Class 7: Cross word (of Environment related):
Team Lead: Myself - supported by teachers
Crosswords were developed by me.
Class 8 and 9: Imaginary craft-work
Team Lead: Anil and Sneha.
They were grouped in 4 teams and were given Card board box, card sheets, candles, dry
colours, cotton, pins, threads, Husk of Pista and some other objects as well.
They had made 1) Ice Home, Decorated 2) Container with Separators, 3)The Home , Ground
with trees and 4) Wind fan. In all these activities children were found very enthusiastic and
learning. They enjoyed the activities. Also the teachers were in full Josh’ helping the
children and got involved completely.

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Display of each Activity output: 12:15 to12:30
We put all the colouring, paintings, Sudoku’s, crossword and craft done by children on
display for everyone to have a look in the nursery. It was real joy to see this display.
Sapling distribution: 12:30 to 12:45
Four saplings were given away to each of the 4 class teachers to on behalf their classes to
take care of them. Children were really happy to see their teachers receiving them and
teachers also were feeling the proud of
getting the sapling and took the responsibility of nourishing them. We acknowledged the
teachers for their support. Teachers want us to conduct one such event for class 1 to 4. They
were all touched by the program and the participation of the children. They all had been part
of our team. Teachers in return they thanked us for the event.
End:
The event ended by acknowledging the entire team of volunteers and support team.
Since this was my last event with groups because my President Mr. Prasad wants to see my
managerial quality so he told me to do two more events without any volunteers. Since, I got
responsibility I have to do everything by myself now like arranging schools, arranging
labours for digging, getting saplings etc. The biggest obstacle I was now going to face was
language problem since I have to conduct event in government schools and there they don’t
have much knowledge about English or Hindi. And also without any help I have to get
sponsors also who will sponsor to trees. It was toughest time but I have to show my skills
what I learnt in classroom.
As I already conducted 4 events with great teams and I was the event leader so I started
finding what lesson I would learn from my past experiences.
Lessons Learnt:
1. Laptops to be set-up even before the start of the event which will save time.
2. Displaying the outputs of the activities really mean a lot to children. This must be
continued as much as possible.

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3. Bringing family members of the group and particularly the event leader means a lot to the
family and members, and also it means a lot to the event leader. This also can be continued
as practice.
4. Talk of the introduction about KSHITI Foundation must be discussed within the team and
a format has to be arrived.
5. We have to build in a structure having adequate content for all the classes right from 1st
to 10th.

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Activity 3: Awareness Program in Schools without team
Event no.1: Government High School, Uttarahali, Bangalore
Strength: 1800.
I don’t have my team so this was very challenging for me but I accept this challenge and
start looking for schools and finally I convinced Mr. Chikka Devegowda Incharge HM of
Government High School, Uttarahali. He was very excited when I was explaining him about
how we work and why we are doing plantation program especially in government schools.
Finally after a lot of question and answer he permitted me to do planation program in this
school campus.
Now I have another challenge how to handle 1800 students since I will be alone person. So,
what I do. Then I got an idea why not I include school students as my volunteer. But the
problem is they will not agree to do so because they don’t have so much interest in it. Then
what I can do that they will feel interesting? Then I thought why not I will speak with Mr.
Chikka Devegowda Incharge HM that instead of having internal marks we will divide that
internal marks into categories. They were having 20 percent of weightage marks in their
final marks. Why not we can split that weightage to 10 percent for internal exams and 10
percent for their creativity, their performance they will display during my program. Then,
somehow I convinced Mr. Chikka Devegowda Incharge HM regarding same and then I meet
President of that school and he was very happy with my proposal.
But President also wants that if you will give idea that how can we protect trees in their
school campus, since students don’t care about these trees and then during gam break they
stampede those trees so what can you do it for that?
Then, I came with solutions that since students have no feeling for these trees that’s why
they don’t care about it. So, I advised them why not from this time I will make them part of
my plantation program and during my program they will only plant these trees and they will
own these trees and then they will not stampede these trees and also I told them since you
can’t plant 1800 trees. So what can you do in each group which consist of class 1 to class

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10th students you can divide them into group of 15 students in one group and we can plant
120 trees and we will tell them who will take care of trees properly extra 5 percent marks
will provided to them and also every end of the year the group who will protect their trees
well they get prize from President. They accepted my idea and gave me permission for my
program on 17th January 2014 at 9 A.M.
The flow of events was following:
1. An introduction for 15-20 minutes
Initially I had planned to have this separately for each of the 'batches' but then decided to go
with the larger crowd, which meant the content was a little out of place for the younger
ones.
2. Couple of videos for 15 mins
As there was a single laptop so I had to split up the show for the assembled group, and I
finished both of these within an hour of the start.
3. Move children into groups based on their age groups and give them some activities
I now moved the children back to classrooms; this should have been handled well because
the students now ended up in 'mixed' sections. So the explaining of the activities became
more complicated and repetitive.
4. Distribute the saplings
I decided against moving the students to the porch again, and so took the saplings to the
classroom and had snaps with some excited students.
5. Planting saplings
I decided to kick off my new plans in effective and efficient way. So, I firstly spent time
with all 120 groups and told them how you can plant trees, why we need trees, why you are
owning this trees and why you should have to care these trees carefully.
Then I started planting sapling with groups and I was guiding them every steps and they
were also very much excited about this program and they were also asking many questions
to me. Finally I completed this planting on time.

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6. Close the event
The school closes @1 on Saturdays, so the students gradually drifted out. We then had a
couple of pics with the staff, thanked them for their support.
The best part was that students, teachers, staffs, guards and President also helped me a lot
and showed a lot of enthusiasm for this. Without their support I wouldn’t have done in so
much systematic manner.

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Event no.2: Government Primary School, Kumaraswamy Layout, Bangalore
Strength: 170.
This is the best moment of my program because these small kids are not letting me work
anything and I was surprised to see the enthusiasm of them. They arranged everything like
water, digging material and finally since there was time constraint I didn’t arrange any
activity for them but I showed a lot of video which was quite good for them and they
promised that they will take care of these trees and also they sponsored me 10 rupees for
trees and that was unforgettable moment.

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Activity 4: Initiative for restart project(Laksha Sasyotsava)
I initiated a new project. By this project we are energised and ready to launch a new
programme called Laksha Sasyotsava, meaning a celebration of one lakh saplings. The
intention is to plant one hundred thousand saplings across Bangalore this year starting from
June 5th.
Laksha Sasyotsava - a celebration of human harmony with our environment. To plant one
lakh saplings on the World Environmental day, 5th June, every year. Provide an opportunity
to bring people together and close to the environment for a noble cause every year. Further
lead to structured and hands-on environmental education and recreational activities.

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CONCLUSION
3.1 Generalobservations & findings
As per my observation, all the projects and activities undertaken by KSHITI are in line with
the vision & mission of the NGO as stated in the introduction.
KSHITI is successful in its efforts to help environment and bring people together and its
other project which is helping poor section of society. Overall if we will see then I found out
that KSHITI is doing a lot of good activity not only for environment but also its making
environment awareness program every corner in Bangalore. Their volunteers spreading
awareness in schools by giving students some task, activity related with environment.
KSHITI unique way to approach and what they shared with me during my induction program
about trees was really valuable to me and I would have never known about this if I would not
came for internship here.
Since they are mostly active in environment related activity but they also help to poor section
of society that’s a very good initiative my KSHITI.
3.2 Suggestions/recommendations
Suggestions for improvements based on my findings:
1. Volunteers who were working for them were not working for money. But since they
were providing their valuable time it was NGO duty to provide them
acknowledgment.
2. When I went for sponsorships I found it very difficult since the one tree sponsorship
cost was 365. It was a big amount for one tree. Yes, there was logic behind that we
will not only plant trees but also take care of trees but this huge amount was creating
doubt on integrity of Ngo. So, they can reduce their sponsorship cost. They can use
me as an example for this. Since I didn’t ask for sponsorships 365, I convinced them
that since it is their trees so they will protect trees not even for 2 years but for many
years.
3. There was not cost sheet. No proper documents were available for sponsors and even
they don’t have any details about sponsors.

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4. They don’t have any hiring process. Whoever will call them they will give them some
project. Because of this reason there were so many interns who were not at all serious
for their work.
5. There was not any organisational structure. You can do whatever you want. There
was no supervisor also who can monitor your work.
3.3 Personal Learning and Experience
From management perspective: It helped me understand how an NGO works from
raising funds to implementing various activities and projects for the environment and the
poor sections of society.
From an individual perspective: It has made me realize that we live in nature, we get
food, air, water by nature but still we don’t think about nature.
Also it has made me realize how unfortunate some people in society are and how much we
can and should do to help them.
Working in an NGO requires a lot of dedication and hard work. Hats off to the social workers
and management at KSHITI who selflessly put in their efforts to make a difference in society.
Thanks a lot to Mr. Siddalinga Prasad who gave me chance to work there.

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Annexure A - Daily activity journal summary
Day 1: Visited the Bangalore University, where KSHITI already planted approximately 1,
00,000 trees. I also got to know their work method.
Day 2: Induction Program.
Day 5: Held first event in school with help of team.
Day 6: Made application, acknowledgement and offer letter.
Day 7: Social media marketing.
Day 8: Went for sponsorship.
Day 9: Awareness event in school with the help of team.
Day 12: Attended their core team meeting.
Day 14: Did survey for UDYAMA.
Day 16: Made model for their restart project LAKSHA SASYOTSAVA.
Day 17: Attended meeting with our core team and Rotary Midtown Charitable trust for
LAKSH SASYOTSAVA project.
Day 18: Administrative work at KSHITI office.
Day 19: Worked with Rotary Midtown Charitable trust team for LAKSH project.

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Day 21: Went to schools for permission for plantation.
Day 22: Awareness about trees planation in Police Station, Hospitals, roads etc.
Day 23: Administrative work at KSHITI office.
Day 24: Awareness event in schools without help of team.

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