Team 69 going green!
the first CAD... and we've already found an umbrella, one and a half bike....
cleaning the forrest could be ~an inriching~ experience.a great day we spent volunteering with
BTCV who are doing a great job develpoing community and saving nature...
Go BTCV!
1 comment:
Nice!
When I did something similar, on a smaller scale, I had doubt about how this would help, but now I understand
1- As an individual you learn to care, and to push yourself to do the right thing.
(usually you would say why should I leave my warm bed on a Saturday morning, to go clean someone lazy person back yard? It is the owner, and the government job to do this, what if a dog bite me, or a tree branch fall on me,…etc). Volunteering is a learned behavior, that is why animals do not usually volunteer.
2- As a group you learn to organize, lead, motivate, cooperate, and have fun.
3- As a society you improve the environment, teach people directly around you, and the society at large to care, and get involved (i.e. if some one is coming from Malawi to clean my park, then I should not throw garbage on my neighbor backyard)
4- In this case there are also benefits for the world, recycling of that bicycle, the educated students who can be the source of educating and leading others back home, and the teaching of at least few future leaders, that people all over the world can help each other, with less energy and less money needed to bomb and kill each others.
Here is an idea
Maybe that organization can advertize in that city for people to donate their working used bicycles, and then these can be shipped to poor towns which have accessible roads.
Here is why such a project can be helpful
1- This is easy to do, since people in rich countries, are usually happy to give away their used stuff, the only problem would be the cost of shipping, since the Royal Navy is not likely to donate its services in such a missions which doesn’t involve shipping of bombs (they probably want to recycle the old bicycles into bombs too). However shipping can be done by sea for a low rate, in cooperation with some commercial shipping companies.
2- These bicycles would be a wonderful gift for a poor teen (I remember the joy I had when I got my first bicycle in middle school), it will also provide transportation for that kid to go to school, work, get the food and the medicine for his family from often distant locations. This can reduce the pressure on public transportation, congestion, pollution, poverty, …etc
Just an idea.
Keep up the good work Dania, and keep us posted.
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