The Children at HEAL have always been encouraged to be environmentally friendly with a special bent towards growing plants. It was no surprise therefore that they jumped at the chance to practice the art of natural farming and work towards adding green cover in and around the Guntur area in the south of India.
HEAL children ready with Seedballs
They prepared around 2000 mud balls made out of soil and manure, imbedded seeds from local trees and rolled them around Chetana (HEAL village) and neighboring hillocks.
Flagging off the Seedball Project
Dr Manga Devi and Mrs Marudwathi, our extremely dedicated administrators of HEAL village organized the event by roping in the Assistant director of Horticulture Mr. D. Madhusudan Reddy who flagged off and started the rally towards the hills and also actively participated in rolling down the seed balls on the slopes.
Marching towards the hillocks near Chowdavaram village
Rolling the seedballs down the hillock
Our visiting youth HEAL volunteers, Koneru Anish and Lawrence from UK also made and rolled seed balls along with the children.
Natural farming & Seedball dispersal is truly a simple yet ingenious way of spreading green cover around our locality. The efforts of the HEAL children was picked up by the local news.
It truly warms my heart to see our children learning the importance of being environmentally friendly in such a fun way.
Here is a link to know more about how to make seed balls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-4U6zxUdew
Three cheers to our children at HEAL with the hope that their immeasurable enthusiasm rubs off us adults.
Reported by Priyanka Kadam