Earth Day 2013 in a Village
TERRE Members went in remote villages to celebrate Earth Day 2013. It engaged a leading private sector- Persistent Systems – a global company specializing in software product and technology services with its customers spread across North America, Europe, and Asia. TERRE, a global NGO with its partners in Italy, Scotland and USA jointly embarked on reaching out to local villages in India in hot summer of more than 40-degree cent temperature. This collaboration between private sector and NGO was not on Cloud Computing or on verticals. But it was to introduce solar desktop study lamps to remote villages in hilly area of Western Ghats.
TERRE and Persistent reached out to poor students, their teachers and parents and offered solar study-lamps and demonstrated how to use them. Students who travelled for hours to participate in the event returned with ‘ light’ in their hands. Public Private Partnership in action! And Earth Day well celebrated.
Message of Earth Day-2013, therefore is : Sun gives high temperature, but it also gives ‘ light’ to poor students.
See photos:
http://www.terrepolicycentre.org/Earth-Day-celebration-2013.html
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