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Green Radiates –                                                       Blood Donation Camps
         A Plantation Drive                                                     ‘You don’t have to wear
         ‘A tribute to Mother Earth’                                            uniforms to save lives, a
                                                                                selfless heart and a spirited
         ‘Green Radiates – A Plantation                                         mind is enough to go leaps and
         Drive’, our school environmental                                       bounds’.
         initiative enters into its second phase
         this season of monsoon wherein                                         The session 2019-20 saw the DPS
         it has plans to carry out mega                                         family living by the slogan ‘Make a
         plantation exercises in and around                                     difference! Save a life! Donate
         our school as also the neighborhood                                    Blood!’ on two occasions i.e., in
         residential societies. The student                                     May and again in October 2019.
         members of School Interact Club,   Annual Meet of                      The ‘Blood Donation Camp’
         AGRANI, spent Saturday afternoon   Members of School                   organized by School Interact
         on July 27, 2019 planting more than   Interact Club AGRANI             Club, AGRANI in association with
         100 saplings of indigenous trees in                                    Rotary Faridabad East, under the
         the green belt of main road adjacent   with District Governor,         project ‘Red Revolution’ received
         to our school. Around 25 students   Rotary, India                      a stupendous response. It would
         accompanied by their teachers      ‘Time to take account of tasks      not have been possible without
         with the assistance of the security   and activities accomplished as   the support of the real heroes,
         personals to manage the traffic on   also to enlist those we plan for   who driven by the noble motive of
         the road and the gardening staff to   future.’                         contributing towards saving precious
         guide them with the right planting                                     lives, stepped forward and donated
         techniques, enthusiastically carried   It is always a very meaningful   blood. The student members of
         out the planting of saplings. Their   exercise when the leaders of     AGRANI, remained fully engaged in
         next planting projects are in place   tomorrow meet the community      spreading awareness regarding need
         in the nearby residential societies   leaders of today to discuss about   of donating blood, coordinating with
         with the collaborative efforts of the   the crucial social issues and to plan   the medical team, interviewing the
         community members. This is a small   about the community development   donors and encouraging others to
         effort that we believe will bring a big   programs. This is exactly what   donate blood. We witnessed excited
         transformation in the landscape of   happened when the newly appointed   donors going through the medical
         the region.                        board of members of our School      checkup and donating blood, some
                                            Interact Club, AGRANI, met          shutterbugs capturing the moments
         Our Dipsites are determined to do   the District Governor, Rotary and   with smiles and laughter – a true
         their part for the Mother Earth!!  other eminent Rotarians on July     embodiment of what we believe in
                                            26, 2019 at Hotel Delite Grand.     selfless service with a smile.
                                            They shared information about
                                            the projects and programs they
                                            had undertaken in the session
                                            2018-19. Discussions were held
                                            at length about the crucial social
                                            and environmental concerns the
                                            region is facing and they also shared
                                            the plans to tackle these. On their
                                            agenda were important issues like
                                            plastic pollution, deforestation,
                                            problem of bullying in schools and
                                            also the menace of depression in
                                            the teenagers. The Rotary members
                                            were left impressed with the social
                                            consciousness and the spirit of social
                                            service that the team of AGRANI
                                            reflected.

                                            Good Job, Champions!! We wish
                                            you all the best for your future
                                            endeavours!!!



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