Date: September 12 2009. Place: Muthathi
Number of Volunteers that participated: 56
Oracle India kicked off their World Wide Volunteer Week of 2009 on a drizzling day on 12th September from Oracle office, at 8:10 AM for a Clean up Drive. This year the location was Muthathi, 100 Kms from Bangalore under the forest, this place is one of the favourite places for picnickers.
52 people from all walks of life, Oracle Employees, their friends and volunteers from Clean and Green participated in the trip. The team stopped for breakfast 15kms away from Kanakapura. The team reached Muthathi around 11:30 AM. After a brief from Sandeep to the volunteers about the clean-up, volunteers formed small teams.
Number of Volunteers that participated: 56
Oracle India kicked off their World Wide Volunteer Week of 2009 on a drizzling day on 12th September from Oracle office, at 8:10 AM for a Clean up Drive. This year the location was Muthathi, 100 Kms from Bangalore under the forest, this place is one of the favourite places for picnickers.
52 people from all walks of life, Oracle Employees, their friends and volunteers from Clean and Green participated in the trip. The team stopped for breakfast 15kms away from Kanakapura. The team reached Muthathi around 11:30 AM. After a brief from Sandeep to the volunteers about the clean-up, volunteers formed small teams.
With rakes, gunny bags and gloves in their hands volunteers were collecting and segregating plastic under 3 categories and bringing loads of plastic in gunny bags to the team doing stuffing and stitching.At 3:00 in afternoon all the volunteers had lunch at a cool place provided by the forest officials and took some rest. Sandeep gave a brief about Clean N Green group and what efforts we are putting to attain a sustainable solution to keep the famous picnic spot Clean and Green. Then all volunteers gathered to check the amount of the plastics collected before leaving back to Bangalore at around 4:30PM.
Highlights of the Trip:
4 cement rings sponsored by Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Painted the Cement rings
Kinds of Plastic Collected: Water Bottles, Toffee Wrappers, Ghutka Wrappers and other variants of it, Ice-Cream cups, plates, food content wrappers, soft drink bottles, soft drink cups.
Amount of Plastic collected in volume: 192 Kg of plastic !!!!
Sponsors: The complete trip end to end was sponsored by Oracle India Pvt Ltd. Oracle India also sponsored 4 cement rings at Muthathi, that was placed at the site a week before the trip.
Highlights of the Trip:
4 cement rings sponsored by Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Painted the Cement rings
Kinds of Plastic Collected: Water Bottles, Toffee Wrappers, Ghutka Wrappers and other variants of it, Ice-Cream cups, plates, food content wrappers, soft drink bottles, soft drink cups.
Amount of Plastic collected in volume: 192 Kg of plastic !!!!
Sponsors: The complete trip end to end was sponsored by Oracle India Pvt Ltd. Oracle India also sponsored 4 cement rings at Muthathi, that was placed at the site a week before the trip.
Volunteers in Action
Painting the Bins
THE GROUP
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