Attendees : Sheetal, Pradeep, Anitha, Sandeep, Adarsh, Sachin, Sadhana, Roopa. Was hoping more volunteers would be in, there were a few tentative acceptances..
1. Sign Boards group - Pradeep, Sandeep, Sheetal and Sachin will each call for sign board quotes and meet/discuss coming sunday 19 Jul with a probable list of sign board makers. This quote will then be used for the discussions with the corporate sponsors. This team will provide their updates to Sheetal - else Sheetal to follow up ...
2. Adarsh, Anitha, Rakesh (he was volunteered in his absence) along with remote participation from Roopa - will prepare a presentation for our corporate sponsors - for various sustainable solutions participation from the sponsors. This team is now coined as the Corporate Liaison Team :The main one of these is that a sponsor company adopts a place and employs one or two safai karmachari (from the local society). The onus of maintaining the pcinic spot is with these staffers. They will engaged as an employee and will report into the volunteer team of the corporate sponsor. Clean and Green will interface with the volunteer team of the sponsor company, help identify (through JLR resident manager) a local who is amenable for this Job profile.
The other ways that corporate sponsors can engage in sustainable solution at picnic spots - is have the same employees or a set of volunteers in bringing about awareness against littering.
Placing / sponsoring of bins and boardsAdministrative support for Clean and Green.
This team will also actively seek new sponsors and follow through on various new leads - to be provided by RoopaThe presentation sequence to start with Wipro (from where we left off) : start by 22 Jul 09. Bi-Weekly progress from the team - should report to Sandeep on various activities and updates.
3. Roopa to seek time with MD JLR. Discuss the following with the MD/ED Request for a slot for presentation to the JLR properties Resident Managers at their Monthly meeting.Propose if the Resident Managers at the JLR properties can help identify a few locals for employement with the corporate sponsors for cleaning up the picnic spots. Check with the MD if a rewards mechanism can be put in place, for recoginising above-and-beyond-the-call-of-duty response from any Manager. Suggest a feedback mechanism from the resident managers on a monthly basis on the progress/update on the cleaning, quantum of plastic collected, date of delivery to KKPWM.
4. Roopa to ::At the presentation for the Resident Managers : give a brief on Clean and Green. Provide a background for the request to clean up of the nearby picnic spots - by sharing the past discussion with MD JLR. Give a Std Operating Procedure for accomplishing a plastic/litter free picnic spot. Introduce them to KK Plastic Waste Mgmt Pvt Ltd.
5. Education Cell : Based on the success of Sachin and Sheetal in the events (teaching and cleaning for Life Dream NGO, in urban area), this two member team will form a small group from friends and foes who are interested. This group will be responsible for providing Awareness about environment, issues affecting it, awareness campaign for school children. Adarsh to provide a list of NGO that work with underprivildged children who are to be contacted for the educations sessionsSheetal and Sachin to contact Azim Premji foundation to see how we can take the education programm to the vast network of school the foundation works with.
6. Considering a name change for the group - not a complete revamp but either a prefix or suffix that will uniquely identify the group.
7. Adarsh proposed that it is now time for Clean and Green to meet with some of the groups operating on environmental issues. He will coordinate a meeting with Saahas.
