Don Bosco Green Alliance is an international collective of young people and Salesian institutions across the world committed to global environmental action, reflection and policy. Its mission is to create an environment that is safe and caring for all life on our planet, while nurturing a new generation of environmentally conscious citizens and leaders.
Don Bosco School, Bandlaguda became a member of the Don Bosco Green Alliance on December 6, 2018. Since then, the school has sought to encourage students to become responsible stewards of creation and to take practical steps towards protecting our common home.
Our environmental initiatives focus on three priority areas:
1. Reducing Pollution – Encouraging students and the wider school community to reduce pollution and adopt environmentally friendly practices.
2. Waste Management and Recycling – Promoting responsible waste segregation, reduction, reuse and recycling, while helping students understand the importance of minimizing waste.
3. Green Campus and Surroundings – Developing a greener and healthier school environment through tree planting, care for plants and biodiversity, and activities that encourage students to appreciate and protect nature.
Through these efforts, Don Bosco School, Bandlaguda hopes to empower its students to become environmentally responsible citizens and committed leaders who care for creation and work for a sustainable future.
“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
Recognition for Our Environmental Initiatives
Our school’s Don Bosco Green Alliance Programme has also been recognized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and is listed among its SDG Good Practices initiatives. This recognition highlights the contribution of the Don Bosco Green Alliance towards advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through practical environmental action, education and youth engagement.
Seeds of Hope Project: As part of the Seeds of Hope Project, members of the Don Bosco Green Alliance were each given a flower pot and encouraged to plant a seed and nurture it with care. They regularly observed and recorded the growth of their plants, learning about the different stages of a plant’s life. The project helped students understand the importance of patience, responsibility and caring for nature. It also reminded them that even a small seed, when nurtured with love and commitment, can grow into something beautiful and life-giving. Through this simple activity, students experienced first-hand their role in protecting and nurturing our environment.
Earth Day 2025 United Nation Sustainable Development Poster Contest
Members of Don Bosco Green Alliance organized a poster making competition for Earth Day 2025 based on the UN SDG Goals. This was entirely a student led project which received an overwhelming response of creatively designed posters which were displayed in school.
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 encourage 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
School Gardening Project
Our School Gardening Project gives students an opportunity to actively care for plants and contribute to creating a greener and healthier school environment. Students participate in planting, watering, weeding and nurturing plants, learning firsthand about the importance of caring for nature.
The project helps students develop a sense of responsibility, teamwork and respect for creation. By spending time caring for plants, they learn that even small, regular actions can make a meaningful difference in protecting our environment and creating a sustainable future.
Students also take the lead in organizing environmental campaigns in school.
Plant4Mother Campaign
Auditing of Natural Resources / Saving Electricity
Our school encourages students to become mindful and responsible users of natural resources through regular auditing, monitoring and awareness initiatives. Students are encouraged to understand that conserving electricity and water is not only a way of reducing wastage but also an important responsibility towards protecting our common home.
Awareness Campaigns: Students actively promote the habit of switching off lights, fans and other electrical appliances when they are not required. These simple actions help reduce unnecessary energy consumption and encourage the entire school community to adopt more sustainable habits.
The students also undertook a project to monitor the school’s water supply and assess its quality. Using a digital pH meter, they regularly tested the water and recorded their observations. This hands-on activity helped students understand the importance of water conservation, responsible resource management and environmental monitoring, while developing their skills in observation, data collection and scientific enquiry.
Through these initiatives, students learn that environmental responsibility begins with everyday choices and that every unit of electricity saved and every drop of water conserved contributes to a more sustainable future.
Waste Management Seminar
The Hydroponics Project
Students from Class 11 experimented with growing plants like lettuce, amaranth and microgreens using hydroponics.
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
One of the first steps 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
