Every Day should be the Earth Day

By: Prerna Sharma and Inayat Sood

Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the earth’s environment. Celebrated on 22nd April it is a day devoted to show our gratitude towards earth. This day aims at growing eco-activism among the people and specially the children.

The students of junior wing of Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh celebrated this event by planting a new tree “CHAKRASIYA” in the Pharmaceutical Garden in the school campus. Students of classes 1 and 2 actively took part in the poster making and slogan writing competition. These tiny tots could be seen jumping actively showing around their posters some of which read “Plant a tree, Save the Earth” and “Preserve Nature and Save the Planet”. The senior students were also not behind in the race for protecting our Mother Earth. The students of classes 6 – 9 took part in Mask Making, Slogan Writing and Poster Making competitions. On one hand the posters of senior students displayed intense messages like that of “Global Warming is Global Warning” and on the other hand the students of class 6 are now too conscious to pluck a flower.

“The earth’s climate is significantly changing at a faster than normal rate. One thing remains clear that mankind’s actions are behind these changes. We’re not environmentalists but can contribute by saving electricity”, said Prerna Sharma and Inayat Sood of class 9. For 200 years we’ve been conquering nature and now are beating it to death. It is good that the younger generation is coming up and putting a lot of effort to preserve earth. This was what Sr. Maria Christi, the principal of Carmel Convent School said “I’m happy to see the students creating awareness on this topic. And it is not only today that we should save the earth, but it should be done regularly by saving electricity and using the water judiciously”.

So our message on this earth day for all is “DON’T BLOW IT – GOOD PLANETS ARE HARD TO FIND” remember always we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children