A composting program at Delhi Government Schools is helping students get hands-on experience with making dirt while also teaching them ways to address human-driven climate change.
As a part of learning, horticulture waste, all leftover food waste from the school will go into composting containers rather than a landfill where it would just decompose and produce planet-warming green house gasses in association with Celebi Delhi Cargo Terminal Management India Pvt Ltd under CSR initiative
Madhukar Varshney , a social worker, and founder of Rise Foundation ,says the school’s composting program checks a lot of the boxes for effective, positive climate education.
Rather than solely conveying to children that “all these terrible things are happening,” the approach is to emphasize that, amidst challenges, numerous adults are actively working to improve the situation. Moreover, children are encouraged to explore ways they can actively engage and contribute to positive change – Varshney says.
The school’s composting program started in Dec 2023, the school held a celebration to reveal what happened inside a series of cage composters.
RISE Foundation (NGO) 