The Auxilium Convent School, Dum Dum primary students celebrated Environment Day on 26 June 2024.  The theme of the Environment Day Celebration was focused on inculcating in the students the habit of saving water and energy. The event consisted of an action song and a poem on nature. After the program, the students offered a plant to the teachers and sisters as a gesture of care for nature, the common home. They also pledged themselves to save water and energy, plant more trees and use CNG.

A student, Tiana Rajak of class 3A and Aahana Biswas of class 3B said after the function: “We will use a cycle or take a walk to go from one place to another place’. Aaditri Pan added: “Whenever she sees water flowing from the tap, she will close it”. Kiara Das and Aishika Nandi said, “While brushing they will not open the tap and brush”. Tejaswini convincingly said, ‘She will not use plastic articles.’ Other students affirmed that they will save electricity by switching off the lights and fans in the room when it is not in use. Anvi Kundu decided that she would not waste paper. Ahana Roy promised to pick up the plastics or rapers thrown on the road.

The celebration reminds us of the urgent need to protect our planet and encourages us to adopt more sustainable practices in our daily lives.