Big Medicine addresses Mahila Mandal students at morning assembly about their school's 3-year Greening Mahila Mandal Project, a program designed as a zero waste/green education model for schools anywhere

With inspiration and assistance from visionary principal Ms. Madhu Sareen and acting president Shri Ganesh Shrotriya, son of the school's founders, seventy five year old Mahila Mandal Girls Senior Secondary School, (MM) perhaps the longest running Gandhian school for  underpriviliged girls is partnering with Big Medicine to launch a pioneering zero waste/environmental education program, to create a green campus from operations to curricula.

 While details are still being worked out in several areas, Big Medicine co-director, Premilla Dixit arranged for two of MM 's teachers to train with the New Delhi Center For Science & Environment,Green Schools Green Audit program, so they could lead teams of students in carrying out a green audit of Mahila Mandal.  As hoped for, the Green Audit , taking stock, project has generated great excitement among teachers, students and parents.  It will provide baseline data for developing the school's green projects, raise awareness among students and staff of the cost and impact  of their own resource use and waste generation, teach students new research skills and new applications  of  develop their independent, critical thinking; all essential steps in green education. In Premilla's words. "Student will play a leading role in this initiative from start to finish befitting their deep concerns with and stake in the region's environmental future.Their ideas have already been valuable and it is ultimately their energy and involvement that will make the project blossom and grow."