Don Bosco Green Alliance is an international collective of youth from the Salesian institutions across the world who contribute to global environmental action, thought and policy. The mission is to create an environment that is safe and caring for all life on the planet, while building up a new generation of environmentally committed citizens and leaders. Website: https://donboscogreen.org/
Don Bosco School, Bandlaguda, became a member of Don Bosco Green Alliance in December 6, 2018.
The Three Priority Areas of focus for our school is:
1. Reducing Pollution
2. Waste Management and Recycling
3. Green Campus and Surroundings
“What kind of world do we want to leave to those who will come after us, to the children who are growing up?” – Laudato Si
Our School’s Don Bosco Green Alliance Program is listed by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as a SDG Good Practices Institute. Read more here at the UN website: Don Bosco SDG Good Practices
Seeds of Hope Project: Members of Don Bosco Green Alliance were given a flower pot each. They had to plant a seed and record the growth of the plant.
Earth Day 2025 United Nation Sustainable Development Poster Contest
School Garden
Don Bosco Global Youth Festival
Inspired by the Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival, in association with Don Bosco Green Alliance on the Theme: “I Have a Dream – Youth and Climate Change” to inspire young people to advocate for a sustainable future and environmental care, students from Class 11 made their own documentary film to convey a powerful message about not littering.
The Giant Tap Project
April 22, 2024: As a part of Students Rebuild #ExtraordinaryEarthProject, students at Don Bosco School, Bandlaguda built a Giant Tap spewing out plastics. In 2021, artist and activist Ben Von Wong created a plastic tap to raise awareness about the growing problem of single-use plastic. As we celebrate Earth Day today with the theme Planet vs. Plastics, we hope that the #GiantPlasticTap at our school entrance will remind each one of us to safeguard our beautiful planet from plastic pollution.
School Garden
Plant4Mother Campaign
Auditing of Natural Resources / Saving Electricity
Awareness Campaigns: To switch off lights and fans when not required. The students also did a project to monitor the school’s water supply. They used use a digital pH meter to test the water regularly.
Waste Management Seminar
The Hydroponics Project
School Garden
Recycling of Paper and Plastics – Waste Management
January 15, 2023: Don Bosco Green Alliance students organized an old books / paper donation recycling project. The funds generated was donated to Don Bosco Prem Seva Sadan, home and rehabilitation center for street girls, child laborers and minors at risk.
Don Bosco Recycling Championship 2022
Students from Class 1 to 10 were actively involved in a Recycling Program at school. Over 5 tons of waste materials was sent for recycling.
Earth Day 2022
Friday, April 22, 2022: Earth Day was enthusiastically celebrated in Don Bosco School to create awareness about the need to protect our planet. Students designed posters which were also used to raise funds. The program was lead by Don Bosco Green Alliance students who also worked in the school’s organic garden on Earth Day.
Eco Friendly Birthday Celebrations:
Please gift a plant to the school garden instead of distributing chocolates.
Don Bosco School Pledge To Protect Our Environment
Our planet is drowning in trash. Plastics and non-recyclable wastes pollute our land and seas. Our natural resources are getting depleted while air pollution causes many health problems for us.
The members of our school’s Don Bosco Green Alliance Team, requested students, teachers, parents and school admin staff to take a Pledge to Protect Our Environment – to make our world a cleaner, greener and better place to live in.
RETHINK RECONNECT RENEW
Mamma Margaret’s Garden
On the 1st of April 2021 the birth anniversary of Margherita Occhiena, mother of Don Bosco (affectionately known as Mamma Margaret), Don Bosco School launched its organic gardening program.
Mamma Margaret grew vegetables in a garden to feed the hundreds of boys being cared for and educated by Don Bosco. Though she herself was illiterate, Mamma Margaret’s wisdom and goodness became the model for the Preventive System that was the basis of Don Bosco’s educational approach.
Inspired by a Don Bosco institute in the Philippines which started their Mamma Margaret’s Garden initiative during the pandemic to grow vegetables to distribute to the poor, students in our school will be encouraged to grow their own vegetables, herbs and fruits to learn sustainable living. Students will also learn composting and will use the compost to grow the vegetables.
Composting of dry leaves collected on the school campus.
Recycling Program For Social Service
The first step we took towards making our campus an eco-friendly green campus was our Recycling Program. Students involved in the Don Bosco Green Alliance Recycling Program help manage waste by recycling materials like paper and plastic in school. Students are also requested to donate their used notebooks. Funds raised through this program are used for social work projects.
We are happy to announce this year the funds raised from Recycling was used to buy sports equipment for the boys at Navajeevan, a home for street children and destitute boys. Thank you to the students who donated their old school notebooks for this social service project. Our grateful thanks to parents for their encouragement and support, especially for bringing the old books to school during the COVID pandemic lockdown. Our next collection will fund sports equipment for the home for girls.
Feb 2021: This academic year, Don Bosco School, Bandlaguda, has sent over 500 kgs of paper and plastics for recycling, so far, in spite of the challenges faced with the lockdown.
School Award
Don Bosco School was awarded a trophy by ITC for its Recycling Program (2019-2020).
Eco-Friendly Celebrations
Students are encouraged to gift a plant to the school garden instead of distributing sweets for their birthdays. The students along with Don Bosco Green Alliance members take care of the plants in the school garden where they get to see their birthday gift plant grow and flourish.
Potted plants replace bouquets of cut flowers as gifts for visiting guests and dignitaries during events at Don Bosco School.
Composting Project 2021
School Garden
Eco Birthday Celebrations 2019 – 2020
Awareness Campaign: Impact of littering and pollution on wild animals.
Primary School students built a plant wall with air purifier plants.
2018: Establishing our very first Don Bosco Green Alliance Projects.
Paper and Plastics Recycling : Waste Management 2018 – 2019
