Environmental activities

SAVE
SAVE is an environmental education project being implemented in the schools of Kozhikode district.Vadayakkandy Narayanan has been its coordinator for five years from 2014.
 SAVE envisages to mold and empower the students in the diversified environmental activities, listed as follows:

• One Class... One Tree! : An idea to plant a tree in a student's heart, not just at the backyard. Each class is entrusted and supported to plant a tree and nurture it.
• One School... One Kaavu!: Kaavu is the most diversified trees abode with abundance of organic ecosystem. If the land is not a constraint, a kaavu, with a minimum of 10 trees at a school can long way in pre severing the nature at its best.
• Zero Budget Plastic Waste Management: A project initiated state-wide by the Green Community, to manage the plastic waste without any expense. 
• Awakening Camps: The camps always help to enlighten the deeper thought on environment and to bond better.
• Herbal Garden: A garden full of medicinal plants, which would create a natural gaurd to the school and the surrounding premises
• Butterflies Garden: This would help to go deeper in echo-system - more the butterflies around, better the ecosystem.
• Collection of NATTARIVU: In modern times, the roots are forgotten and not preserved. The efforts to collect the 'Nattarivu' would help find solutions to many chronic issues, while students are self-empowered
• Star Watching: It can be food for the curiosity of the students and an arena enabling students to open the door to a new world, totally closed otherwise! Getting to know the universe in specifics.
• Bird Watching: An activity which can be taken as fun-filled one while abundance of learning takes place when watching the birds and its movements.
• Haritha Theerthadanam: It's a study tour to the nearby place to learn more on the environmental aspects of the area.
• Manu-script Magazines: Under SAVE, the students are encouraged to vent out their creative side of the brain in the form of a magazine which is manually written. A contest would be organized to choose the best 3 magazines under SAVE program.
• Green Exhibitions: Another platform for students to showcase their creative skills in terms of the exhibition of the art forms such as drawings, photos or any other such art forms.
• Short Films: In this technically equipped world, taking short-films with a duration of less than 10 minutes is just a normal affair. A contest would be apt in this segment too.
• Pakshikku Paanapaathram: Thinking of others is the right virtue and feeding others is the great virtue one can posses. With drinking water for birds in a mud vessel kept outside classroom, the birds will be regular visitors to the school.
• Organic / Natural Farming: If the land is not a constraint or available outside school, guiding students on farming that too without using any chemical fertilizers and/or pesticides would be an ideal thing to do.
• Promoting ink-pens: Being the cheapness of the ball-pens in price, students imbibe a culture of 'use and throw' of them. Hence inculcating a culture of using ink-pen would reach less harm to the environment.
• It's privilege to see many leading catalysts offering the support, such as Marble Mahal,  Corporation Bank Thiruvalloor, Dr K.Muhammad, Thodannur.
• Bio Diversity Campus:Performing many environmental activities making all schools bio diversity campus
• Jeevajalam: A move to clean and preserve water bodies. Each school will select one water body. With the cooperation of a public committee, clean the water body and protect it. Steps also will be taken to clean and preserve all the temple and mosque ponds.