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What we do for the society

MUSKAN CHOUDHARY, xii SHUBHAM AGARWAL, xi-a
I am a part of a social initiative called “Samta", which is
Black Polythene is a youth-led a program by Gyandeepak NGO and Thinkerminds
organization which aims to destroy the foundation. It is a 6 month online teen mentorship
stigma surrounding menstrual health. fellowship where we are assigned a child from
When buying sanitary napkins or other Gyandeepak NGO and we have to act as their mentors
forms of menstrual aid, women in our for this period. We are tasked with becoming their
country feel the need to cover them in friends and helping them in their day to day lives. We
black polyethene. This has led to these get to teach them things we know and guide them
SAMBHAVI DUGAR, Vi-c polythene bags being associated with the using our experience. We have to do a minimum of 2
one on one sessions with our mentees every week.
suppression of a process as natural as
From the past one month, I menstruation. By naming ourselves Black SHUBHAM AGARWAL, xi-a
have been teaching English Polythene, we wish to create an opposite
alphabets along with two – effect, thereby bringing the pressing issue FUNLINE is a community service organization
letter words to my domestic of menstrual freedom and hygiene to the started by six school going students, who wanted
helper’s granddaughter. Due forefront. So far, we have raised enough to lend their hand for helping the underprivileged.
to the lockdown, she has funds for about 1.5 lakh pads through I was one of the volunteers at funline-pens down
been staying with us since endeavours such as workshop week and event , we had a vocabulary enriching workshop
the local trains are not merchandise sales, and several with many fun learning activities for kids aged 5-
running. She is a 7 year old distribution projects are underway to 10. It was a wonderful experience, interacting with
girl and is curious to learn. those kids , making them play games, do activities
Her curiosity to learn make sure they reach the right people. A and seeing them enjoy. With the funds collected
motivates me to teach her. team of around 30 volunteers regularly from this and the previous and the 2 future
helps us with our tasks. Moreover, a workshops ,Stationery items will be bought and
chapter of our organisation has been set donated to the underprivileged children. Being a
up in the United States of America with part of it made me really happy.
the same mission
URVI MURMURIA, xi-C

I served lunch to many small
children in my locality. I felt
very nice and I enjoyed
feeding the needy children.
My parents do so quite often
and they have motivated me
to do the same.