- Students at a school in India felt that food waste was creating pollution problems and decided to implement vermicomposting (using worms) to convert waste into fertilizer. - They visited a waste management facility, setup vermicomposting beds on their school grounds, and applied the resulting manure to a new school herb garden. - The project was successful and helped raise awareness of vermicomposting; other students and community members wanted to replicate it to deal with waste and earn income.

1. We Share Feel Imagine Do Mentor teacher Mrs. M.Kohila.B.T.Asst

2. Mentor teacher Mrs. M.Kohila.B.T.Asst, S.M.R.ZV.H.S.S., Vadasery, Nagercoil, Kanyakumary district, Tamilnadu, South India

3. EARTH WORM The Recyclers

4. Step 1: Feel The waste gathered in our school created pollution and it was not disposed properly. Bad odors came out of noon meal wastes. Day to day it caused many problems to our school surroundings. We felt this problem should be solved in a good manner.

5. Going out Kendra Visit with our Mentor Teacher Mrs. M.Kohila To find the solution for this problem , we decided to visit some waste management areas. We had visited Vivekananda Kendra to observe the Vermiculture process. We selected a limited students to go and observe the waste management process. The students are advised to take a Video camera with them to record the process of vermiculture . Click here to watch the videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk7Z0P_qtrU http://www.youtube.com/user/Mrskohilabalamurugan#p/u/6/iy-BndXmTJo

7. To prepare Vermicomposed manure at our home.

8. To find innovative ideas to multiply the worms in large scale.

9. To grow herbal garden in our school and to give awareness on natural products.

10. To supply the manure to the needy farmers.

13. It does not have any adverse effect on soil, plant and environment.

14. It improves water retention capacity of soil because of its high organic matter content.

15. It promotes better root growth and nutrient absorption.

16. Earthworm castings in the home garden often contain 5 to 11 times more nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium as the surrounding soil.

17. Promoting home composting as a solution to reduce global warming caused by methane by degradable waste in landfills.

19. Spread the coconut fiber Our Activities……. Pour the cow dung water on the coconut fibers. Please click here to watch the videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlW6dTbe_5I http://www.youtube.com/user/Mrskohilabalamurugan#p/u/7/LySi5eYcQ1w

20. Our Activities……. Fill the pit with agro waste ,cow dung, and fallen leaves from trees Waste from Noon meal centre is put into the pit. Leave it for two weeks.sprinkle water regularly.

21. After two weeks earth worm was applied on the bedding Our Activities……. After three weeks We can observe the Vermicomposed manure at the top of the pit. (The appearance of black granular crumbly powder on top of vermibeds indicate harvest stage of the compost. )

23. The earthworms go down and the compost is collected from the top.

24. Separate the baby worms and worm cocoons from it by sieving method.Now the manure is ready to use.

25. APPRECIATION FOR OUR PROJECT Please visit on the URL to watch the video Mr.K.Subramonian, HeadMaster, S.M.R.V.H.S.S. Vadasery, Nagercoil-629001 VISIT THIS URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4oNt4ttohU

26. Vermicomposed manure is used for herbal garden project Herbal garden at school Vermi composed manure is applied for herbal plants in our school.

27. Create awareness on Vermiculture to the whole students in the class Other Students got excited about it and ready to prepare Vermicomposed manure at their home

28. Student Gopika participated in an exhibition to give awareness on Vermiculture to other school students. Venue:AmalaConvent,Thackalay Kanyakumary District

30. Raw materials available easily and locally in abundance.

31. Successful Organic Farming and no Marketing problem.

32. No Chance of failure.

33. No requirement of electricity .

35. Impact of the project Survey taken before Implementation of the project No. of Positive Responses(yes) No. of Negative Responses(No)

36. Survey taken after Implementation of the project No. of People Responses (yes) No. of People Responses(No)

38. Create a Global awareness on Vermiculture.

39. Expectation of our project From , home to street street to village Village to town Town to District District to state State to Country Country to whole world We invite you all please join with us to keep the earth clean……..

40. How we were ‘Changed’ We found a solution on Waste Management. We learnt the value of collaboration and sharing . And we learnt that Wastes are misplaced resources and if we placed it in a correct place, it would become resource. We have changed our attitudes on wastes and changed other’s attitudes too. Impact of the project

41. Thank you