The most interesting expression of centennial is "Celebration of Service" where IBMers worldwide are encouraged to go and work with society, goverments, NGOs, communities... The employees are being encouraged to "pledge" service hours and spend them towards serving the society. Apparently the motive is to have employees engaged with the society and for humanitarian causes.Have them spread the message, build the IBM brand and most importantly have the skills of IBMers to support societal causes.
I started pushing the word about Green Hills Group across within IBM late last year, however it got the momentum when the centennial messages started going out. I kick started coordinating efforts of getting IBMers to come to the MIT Hill begining the weekend of 4th/5th June... Since then there have been 4 events and during each event had around 4-5 IBMers coming and contributing for the cause... Some of them commuted long distances and reached early mornings in rains, getting thier feet and hands dirty to plan trees.
Since last two weekends (4th,5th, 12th June) following IBMers visited MIT/ARAI Hilltop and helped plant trees and other conservation activities.Weekend of 4th and 5th June
Manas R Senapati Chhatrapal K Dhapekar, Vipul Wani, Surjit K Patel, Abhijit A Badwe, Kamalesh Harinkhede, Ajit J Tawde, Bhushan V Dekate, Amit Singh. The activities done by them was of planting of 100+ new saplings on the hilltop.
On 12th June following IBMers joined the event Girish N Meher, Prabhat Pachpore, Ajit J Tawde, (made it SECOND TIME). The activities done was of planting of 10+ new saplings on the hilltop and laying of stones and dig trenches to allow water retention along the slopes.
Several other IBMers have signed up for coming over following weekends and enquiries about the event have been pouring in heavily. Here's the mail I typically send to all prior to the event..
Dear ODC Members,
The activity this weekend (Saturday 18th June and/or Sunday 19th June) would be
- Planting new saplings along trenches / make new trenches.
- Laying a stone pathway for access during monsoons
Date : Saturday, June 11th and Sunday, June 12th
Time : 7:30 AM onwards (expect to spend 3-4 hours)
Venue : Hilltop Behind MIT College (Check "How to reach ?" section at the bottom of this email))
Tips / Suggestions :
- Please come in (preferably old) sports/canvas shoes, caps, sunglasses, umbrella/wind-sheeters and be ready to work hard, get your hands and feet dirty.
- If it is raining very heavily, kindly call me to confirm if the activity is happening - before you start
- You are welcome to bring guests
- The activities typically go on until 11:00 AM, it is upto you as to how early you want to come and how long you want to stay
Kindly Confirm your participation by clicking on the buttons below
OR on Facebook ODC Community page
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=203085076403179
How to Reach
- From the Garware Flyover at Deccan, get on to your right on to Karve Road
- After the "Nal Stop" Signal, keep Right and head on to the Paud Road Flyover
- After crossing the Flyover, go pass the ARAI circle and head on to the "One Way" on Paud Road (Landmarks around include, PN Gadgil, Joshi Sweets, Reliance Fresh)
- Take a U-turn at the junction (Signal) where the one way ends and take an immediate left which leads to MIT College
- On the MIT College Road, after reaching the premises, you will find a globular structure of "Earth" at one of the crossways - take a left here and continue moving on this road to find stone footsteps to your left.
- Climb all the footsteps to reach the Hilltop - crossover the steps and head to the platue where you will find trees planted by Green Hills Group.
Thanks for volunteering to be part of this initiative. To know about the Green Hills Group Initiative, please glance through the attached presentation OR call me on mobile
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