Billabong High International School students use Gandhian approach to encourage citizens curb global warming

Mumbai, 2nd October, 2009: Commemorating the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti and as a part of the ‘Joy of Giving’ week, the students of Billabong High International School, Malad, held a ‘Green March’ on Friday, 2nd October to urge citizens and the government to step up actions to curb Global Warming. Through this unique initiative, the students brought to fore the need to urgently implement environmental friendly solutions while also spreading awareness on global warming through slogans, banners and interaction with the citizens.

“The march, entirely orchestrated by our students, has been inspired by the Dandi March and just as it brought about a dynamic change in the common man’s role in freedom struggle, we hope to stir the same sense of empowerment among people to curb global warming and save our planet,” said Manju Borkar, Principal, Billabong High International School, Malad.

Chanting and displaying catchy slogans and banners like “Earth allows you to stand, let it Stand the way it is”, Don’t let our world become once upon a time”, “Unite for the benefit, for the benefit of your people”, “One day we shall work for trees!”, around 100 students and teachers rallied to Inorbit Mall from D-Mart, Malad spreading the message across to hundreds of bystanders and passersby. The students favored comprehensive steps for preservation of ecology and stringent laws to preserve the precious natural resources.

They further advised people to adopt eco friendly habits. "It is important to preserve nature to ensure a healthy environment for our future generation. It is the duty of every citizen to take practical steps in whichever small way possible to curb pollution; every drop of water that goes into the making of an ocean is important," said Priya Sharma a Grade XI student of Billabong High.

The general public appreciated the enthusiasm of the participating students and said their involvement in such awareness campaigns would greatly help in spreading the message for maintaining clean and healthy environment. Feedback forms were circulated among the general public for their opinions and leaflets created by the students were also distributed.


About Billabong High International School –
After developing unique and successful learning systems for preschool children, Kangaroo Kids Education Ltd (KKEL) devised learning systems for Primary School [Grade 1-4], Middle School [Grade 5-8] and High School [Grade 9-12] under the brand name of Billabong High International School. It offers any one or all three ICSE, CBSE and IGCSE boards across its schools.

Billabong High was created as a journey forward with the aim to fire the imagination of children. The most important difference about Billabong High lies in the theoretical underpinnings of the way we help children learn as opposed to teaching them. The continuing goal is to create meaningful and rewarding learning experiences that will remain with the children for the rest of their life. Billabong High shares a sister association with Billanook College, Australia for Sharing of educational resources; Student and staff exchange between the two institutions; to raise the bar for quality of education.

For further information please contact:-

Sunayana Nair
Manager P.R., KKEL
Corporate Office, Mumbai
Board Line – (022) 4201 3000; ext (52)

About KKEL -
Kangaroo Kids Education Ltd. is a fully integrated education service provider supporting a network of owned and franchise schools. It was established in 1993 by Lina Ashar with an aim to introduce an empowering system of education which would enable learners to seamlessly integrate the derived knowledge with different areas of application. This stood out in stark contrast to the traditional, learn-by-rote methods of teaching. KKEL, through its preschool and high school chains - Kangaroo Kids and Billabong High International, focuses on creating real learners who develop superior learning curves and are adept at applying their procured skills across learning environments.

KKEL has a unique, in-house R&D team of instructional experts who scientifically shape the curriculum within the IGCSE, CBSE and ICSE frameworks that induces learning through meaningfulness. Having established itself as a brand name in quality education in Mumbai, today, KKEL supports 80 schools in India that are operating in 17 cities and has an international presence in Dubai and Maldives and is still growing rapidly. KKEL’s success today can also be deemed from the fact that it is the first choice among the global education community for international alliances. KKEL has forged various tie-ups internationally, including Australia, for sharing educational resources, training and exchange programs. It also has under its umbrella – Kangabeats, offering various offers various edutainment products and Kangaroo Kids Institute of Teacher’s Development and Research (KITDR), a teacher training institute.

Kangaroo Kids Education Ltd.
301 Mamta House
Above Indus Ind bank
S.V Road
Bandra West
Mumbai 400050
Landline (022) 42013000
Email - managerpr@kkel.com

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