outreach of the project. The expected impact will be a change in mindset of people and upliftment of women’s status in the society. 2. Project The Shredders and Makers of Plastic crafts: The project aims at spreading awareness regarding the environmental effects of mismanaged solid waste among the marginalized women living in the slums near the university campus. It is also to ensure its proper management through its recycling and treatment. The slum community is also involved with training sessions, to become social entrepreneurs. The main impact of the project was employment of the local women in rope making, along with reduction in plastic wastage. An initiative called ‘THE LUNCHBOX’, which involved women of the nearby slum areas making tiffins for the students of nearby college proved very successful and has been able to bring about a better change in the lives of these women who learnt to take a step for a better life. 3. Project TRAS-Think Responsible, Act Sustainable: The objective of the project is to create awareness among the students regarding sustainable consumption by optimizing the usage of resources used in the institute and minimizing the waste generated. This was done through seminars and workshops to spread awareness. Optimization of resource usage was ensured through self- auditing and monitoring using a standardized checklist made for hotels and restaurants resource consumption. Waste minimization was achieved through waste segregation and weighing of waste produced by the institute and projecting it regularly on the notice board. The project was successful in reducing average plate waste from 19.55 kgs per day to 2.5 Kgs per day with 100 % food utilization of left- over food. Eleven liters of water was saved through decanters in the lunch service on a daily basis for servicing 32 covers. 8% energy reduction was also achieved. 4. Project Be Desi, adopt a desi campaign: Stray dogs are often considered a menace and they live in the most deplorable conditions. People in India prefer to pet the pedigree breed instead of the Desi breed (the Indian dog seen as a stray on the streets of India). Under the ABC programme, the dogs are picked up from a locality by the municipal corporation are then taken to an NGO (for animal welfare) where they are sterilized and given an anti-rabies vaccination and thereafter are dropped back in the same locality from where they were picked up. Delhi, alone, has a stray dog population of half a million. The project aims to improve the condition of stray dogs in the campus and in colleges around the University by providing food, water and shelterto the dogs. It also aims to exhibit people’s participation in the ABC programme by making the college campus rabies free and creating an atmosphere where both dogs and humans co-exist in perfect harmony. Under the project, the dogs were sterilized and vaccinated directly through an NGO. The project has been successful in providing the dogs social acceptance and a healthy life by regularly feeding them and taking care of their medical problems. Till date, 14 Dogs in the campus have benefited directly and around 2,000 students and 200 staff of the college have been made part of the impact. This project also helped generate revenue for the underprivileged women by teaching the skill of making dog collars and leashes. As a result, there are 10 Self-employed women and Rs 16,800 revenue has been generated as of date from sale of 100 collars and 27 leashes. 5. Project Sanitation and Health: “The Need of the Hour”: The objective of the project is to work in the area of health and sanitation with adolescent girls in neighborhoods of the college campus. 212 Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Proceedings of International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals : Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016 at the Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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