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2012
Report on Training of Trainers workshop for School
children on Municipal Solid Waste Management at Tirupati
Submitted by: Paradigm Environmental Strategies Pvt. Ltd.
Paradigm
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Contents
1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 3
2. Objectives ........................................................................................................................................ 4
3. Target group .................................................................................................................................... 4
4. The proceedings of the Workshop ................................................................................................... 4
5. Feedback/ Outcome ........................................................................................................................ 7
Annexure:
Annexure I: List of participants
Annexure II: Agenda
Annexure III: Photographs
Annexure IV: Sketches made by students
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Training of trainers workshop for School children on Municipal
Solid Waste Management at YSR Bhavan (MCT-Municipal
Corporation Tirupati), Tirupati on 05/03/2012 and 06/03/2012.
Person Present at School Awareness:
The GIZ in coordination with Municipal Corporation Tirupati had organized a 2 half day
training workshop on 5th and 6th March 2012. The training workshop included students and
teachers from primary, upper primary and high schools representing 25 government and
Municipal Corporation run schools including 10 NSSI schools in tirupati. .
Resource persons
1. Ms. Naina Shah, Paradigm Environmental Strategies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
2. Ms. Sanchita Deb Roy, GIZ, New Delhi
3. Mr. Venugopal, GIZ, Tirupati
4. Mr. Kashinath, GIZ, Tirupati
5. Mr. Rajesh Kumar C.R., Paradigm Environmental Strategies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
6. Mr. Ravindra G V, Paradigm Environmental Strategies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
1. Introduction
Environmental education and awareness helps students to understand the holistic nature of the
environment through interdisciplinary and problem solving approach. Awareness could be
created among students on municipal solid waste management by using the techniques like
“Learn with Fun”. These education methodologies necessitate a change in their attitude
towards waste generation and also motivate them to engage in waste management gradually. It
also enables school administrations for more innovative activities and strengthens their roles to
take up environmental programmes or school projects like source segregation, organic
composting, vermin-composting, paper recycling, etc within their school premises. They also
help by becoming agents of change for the city.
The awareness workshop was conducted by GIZ through its consultants Paradigm
Environmental Strategies Ltd. for School children at YSR Bhavan, MCT (Municipal Corporation
Tirupati), Tirupati to educate students and provide them with holistic understanding of Solid
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Waste Management (SWM) issues, ill effects of bad/wrong practices of SWM, best practices of
SWM and importance of proper sanitation.
2. Objectives
The main objectives of this workshop are:
1. To educate students on ill effects of plastic on environment
2. To educate students on waste reduction
3. To educate students on waste segregation at source level
4. To educate students on best practices of waste management
5. To make students aware about holistic understanding of the environmental issues and
ecological concepts
6. To create awareness about self waste management and sanitation for school children
7. To spread the message for implementation amongst the neighborhood and the city
8. To equip and enhance their capacity to conduct similar training to the remaining school
children
3. Target group
The target groups were:
57 number of students and 19 number of Teachers from Primary & Upper primary
schools on 05/03/2012.
35 number of students and 11 number of Teachers from High schools on
06/03/2012
4. The proceedings of the Workshop
Workshop for Upper Primary and Primary Schools on 5th
March 2012
Mr. Venugopal welcomed all the school children and teachers on 05/03/12 and briefed about the
objectives of the workshop.
Mr. T. Prasad, Commissioner, MCT, addressed the gathering with a speech about the bad
practices of Solid Waste Management system, significance of the workshop and motivated
children and teachers for effective participation in the workshop. The Commissioner extended all
his support for the program.
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Followed by Commissioners speech, Dr. Geetanjali, Health Officer addressed the gathering
about the basics of solid waste management system.
After that Ms. Naina Shah requested all the school children to introduce themselves. She asked
them to introduce themselves via an innovative method for introduction, led by her. One ball had
been prepared with the pieces of approximately 2 m length thread and circulated among the
students. As the ball unfolded, each student had to speak about problem related to MSW faced by
them and present a solution to the problem. Students were very much aware about waste
management and disposal methodologies. They gave suggestions like levying fines on persons, if
they throw waste on roads. The students were very interested to know more minute details of the
waste management, as it was a very new area of learning to them. After being given the
explanation, they were very receptive to the idea of source segregation of waste and ready to take
home the message to their parents.
After this drawing and painting competitions were held for the school children. The drawings
and paintings were very impressive and creative. Then five students who had made good
drawings/ paintings were picked up for playing the Snake and Ladder game. The Snake and
Ladder game is a unique informative game which was developed to educate the school children
about the importance of waste management and students were very excited about playing the
game. The children were made to play the game by rolling the dice and playing on the huge
canvas of snake and ladder and simultaneously they also learned about the methods of waste
management and the negative aspects of waste generation. The children read out the messages
written on the game board every time they landed on a square with a message and they were also
explained the significance of each message. Students understood about the value of waste and
the importance of waste management.
After this Ms. Naina Shah explained about the content of the school kit which contains 4 books
on waste management to the participating teachers and resource persons of respective schools.
Two sets of school kits along with the Deepa – the Sanitation book was presented to each school.
One set of Snake and Ladder game was presented to the 4 NSSI (National School Sanitation
Initiative) schools for participating actively in the baseline survey conducted by GIZ. The
participants were asked to repeat the similar exercise when they go back to schools to the
remaining school children in respective schools.
Ms. Shah then took the feedback from students and teachers. Both the teachers and students were
most impressed with the Snake and Ladder game and it was also observed from the students
feedback that their knowledge on the importance of solid waste management system had
increased.
At the end vote of thanks was given by Mr. Rajesh Kumar C.R. who thanked all the participants.
And it was followed by snacks to all the participants.
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Day 2: 6th
March 2012
Mr. Kashinath welcomed all the high school children and teachers on 06/03/12 and briefed about
the objectives of the workshop. Day 2 of the training was more activity oriented.
After that Ms. Naina Shah requested all the school children to introduce themselves. The
introduced was conducted by the innovative method for of circulating a ball of approximately 2
m length thread and circulated it amongst the students. As the ball unfolded, each student
introduced himself/ herself, speak about problem related to MSW faced by them and also
presented a solution for the problem. Students were very much aware about waste management
and disposal methodologies. They were suggesting that to fine the person if he/she is throwing
waste on road. The students were very interested to know more minute details of the waste
management, as it was a very new area of learning to them.
After that they were asked to write slogans and speak on the topic of the solid waste management
system. The slogans written by students were appealing and speeches were informative and
impressive.
After that they played the activity called “Shrinking Resource”. The objective of this game was
to make students aware that “with increasing population and shrinking resources the demand for
resources will grow to enormous proportions”. For this game group of four students each were
made and named earth, water, forest, Air etc. One newspaper was given to each group. Each
group has to open the center page of the newspaper and this was defined as their resource. All
groups were instructed to spread the resource (newspaper page) on the floor and all four students
were asked to stand on it comfortably. They were indeed able to do it. After that, they were
instructed to fold the page into two and all the four students were asked to stand on it again. They
were able to do it but had to come closer. With further folding the space or resource got smaller
and smaller and there was a scramble amongst the students to have a foot on the resource.
Activity of shrinking resources was followed by the Snake and Ladder game. This game was the
most interesting part as all the students enjoyed as they learnt the ill effects as well as the good
practices of waste management while playing.
Students understood about the value of waste and the importance of waste management. They
were also told to do an activity to “Earn your pocket money, by putting value to recyclable
waste” , the student have to segregate the waste at home and collect all the recyclables and sell it
to the Kabadiwala on weekends. They could collect the money for the same and keep it as their
pocket money.
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The GIZ school kit, including the Deepa book, were presented to each participating schools. The
Snake and Ladder game was given to all the NSSI schools. The participants were asked to repeat
the similar exercise when they go back to schools to the remaining school children in respective
schools. It was a good learning experience for the student’s and the teachers and for the
organizers as well.
At the end vote of thanks was given by Mr. Ravindra G.V who thanked all the participants. This
was followed by snacks to all the participants.
5. Feedback/ Outcome
Students and teachers were trained about basics of solid waste management practices and
enabled to carry forward the further training programme in their respective schools.
We got an overwhelming response from the teachers and the students. The students and teachers
were very impressed with our school kit. They wanted to take it forward and share with other
students in their school. Other than NSSI schools that were not given the Snake and Ladder game
set were requesting us for the same.
On day 2 workshop we got good feedback from the secondary schools students about Solid
Waste Management issues, its ill effects and plausible solutions (including waste management,
rainwater harvesting, sewage treatment, judicious use of water, best out of waste, environmental
pollution, etc.) It was more of an interactive session as the children were well aware about the
issues of SWM. They were very enthusiastic and participated with full zest.
Some of the students were aware of the sustainable development issues as they gave ideas of
SWM in form of slogan, poster making, essays, debates, etc and the teachers were told to
organise such activities in schools more frequently so as to sensitize the students about SWM
issues.
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Annexure I
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Annexure II: Agenda
LERAN WITH FUN
Day 1
School Awareness Workshop for Tirupati Municipal Corporation on
Municipal Solid Waste Management at YSR Bhavan, MCT
Target group: Pre- Primary and Primary School Children and Teachers
Date Time Agenda
5th March
2012
2.15 pm - 2.30
pm Welcome Address and introduction
2.00 pm - 4.30
pm
Coloring Competition for the age group of 4 - 8 yrs
To create awareness among students about best practices of waste management
Sing along rhymes for the age group of 4 to 6 yrs
To encourage students to learn environmental concept.
Sanitation Awareness To aware students about importance of sanitation and
story of Deepa’s sanitation book
Snake and Ladder game :
Understanding about good and bad habit of solid waste management while playing
4.30 - 4.35 pm Vote of thanks
4.35- 5.00 pm Refreshment**
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Day 2
School Awareness Workshop for Tirupati Municipal Corporation on
Municipal Solid Waste Management
Target group: High School Children and Teachers
Date Time Agenda
6th March
2012
1.30 pm - 2.00
pm Welcome Address and introduction
2.00 pm - 4.30
pm
Shrinking resource game
To aware students to conserve resources and impact of plastic waste on earth.
Puzzle game for the age group of 8-15 yrs
To create awareness among students about solid waste management practices and terminologies through interaction.
Activity book for the age group of 10-15 yrs
To aware students about holistic understanding of the environmental issues and ecological concepts.
Sanitation Awareness To aware students about importance of sanitation and
story of Deepa’s sanitation book
Snake and Ladder game :
Understanding about good and bad habit of solid waste management while playing
4.30 - 4.35 pm Vote of thanks
4.35 pm - 5.00
pm Refreshment
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Annexure III: Photographs
Commissioner is addressing the gathering
Health Inspector speaking about best practices of waste
management
Pre-primary school students and teachers are participating
in training
Ms. Naina Shah is explaining commissioner about school
kit
Students are giving their introduction and explaining the
waste management problem in Tirupati Drawing competition on waste management theme
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Ms. Naina shah is explaining to teachers about school kit
Mr. Kashinath is addressing upper primary school students
and teachers
Students are explaining about waste management problem in their city
Students are playing Shrinking Resource Game Slogan writing competition among students on waste
management theme
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Students are playing snake and ladder game
Ms. Naina Shah is presenting school kit to teachers Ms. Naina Shah is presenting school kit along with snake
and ladder game to NSSI schools teachers
Mr. Venugopal is explaining about content of books Tea and snacks
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Annexure IV: Drawings
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