you chose a very novel method of getting the students to pay a fee for entry into the school, and that was not fee in terms of money. It was in this particular example, a fee in terms of what we in India called cars, that you actually put your work as an effort and you contribute with what New York is called sweat equity. So you actually so why don't we talk about that? That this 25 pieces of plastic? Frankly speaking, when I do the math, it's not like that's going to bring you any money or sustenance. So it's It's basically a hurdle you're setting for the Children to seem to earn the right to education. Precisely. It's a it's a service requirement community service requirement. So in addition to older students teaching younger students and building furniture and planting food, uh, we have a plastic recycling centre in the school. Uh, so students take, uh, waste plastic at first collected from homes near the school, and they use it to make bricks for construction eco bricks. And now we're making new products from plastic like, uh, flower planters and, uh, key chains and, uh, soon furniture and desks and benches made from plastic. Uh, so when we started this recycling centre, we asked the parents, Please segregate your plastic at home. Stop burning it in front of your Children. Uh, and that's the the the common, the common way of it. It's for waste disposal. And as fuel during winter, they would huddle, you know, uh, near the the the waste. And it would be plastic and leaves. And, like, different things. They sweep together and and and the light on fire. So it's a convenient way of disposing of the waste. And, uh, you can just toss the plastic on the floor and then later sweep it all up and, uh, start a fire. Um, so yeah, it is, uh, a fuel source. Um, uh, So we asked them to stop doing that and send the plastic. We asked nicely at first, and they didn't. Almost none of them complied. They just preferred to to do that. So we told them. Look, our school is providing a school bus, uh, school supplies, backpacks, uniforms, uh, midday meal. Um, uh, and quality education with technology. All of these, uh, it was free, but now we need you to start paying fees and you can pay your fees in cash or you can pay in plastic. And immediately overnight. We got 100% compliance of parents. Everyone would prefer to send plastic instead of paying cash. So now every week, the students bring a bag of plastic from home. Uh, the requirement of 25 pieces is more of a guideline. We we don't even count it. Of course, Uh, we just require them to participate in some way, uh, in this mission, and and this is what's gotten the attention of the honourable Prime Minister. Uh, and Swatch pirate apan has, uh, recruited us. We've partnered with Swatch Pirate to bring this model to not just government schools to the top private schools in Guha, the the elite private schools. Now, I have joined this, uh, Swatch schools campaign in partnership with Swatch, Part AAN and Guha Municipal Corporation. And the government has provided us with trucks for, uh uh for plastic collection. And, uh, we're going to these private schools. And now even the elite Children are are chipping in for this, uh, swatch power admission
