Paper Bag Campaign

With the increasing concerns regarding the harmful effects of plastic bags, people have opted a more environmental approach by deviating towards the use of cloth and paper bags. In order to encourage people to adopt this environmental approach, the Interact Club of Rato Bangala initiated a small campaign. The students of the school were asked to make as many paper bags they could using old newspapers and magazines. The bags that had been made by students were collected and evenly distributed to students so they could distribute them to local shops in the vicinity of their neighborhood. Since its usually these local shops and street vendors who are compelled to use plastic bags due to their low costs and easily disposable feature, the students provided the paper bags to sellers as a substitute. The students also made sure local shops and streets vendors knew about the harmful effect of using plastics bags and encouraged them to either sell paper bags or ask customers to bring cloth bags while shopping. Although this  was a more local campaign, it was successful in discouraging use of plastic bags.

Melamchi Trip

From 16th January 2016 to 17th January 2016, Interact Club of Rato Bangala organized an event which established a library as well as distributed clothes and blankets to the local people in the Jyamire Village of Melamchi. The main objective of these events was to help the students have a better learning environment and help the local people with their basic needs.

ICRB had collected books and clothing materials from donations of various organizations as well as buying them from the funds collected from the fundraiser events held before. As we reached Shree Panchakanya Primary School, we were greeted by the staff and we proceeded to set up the library. After the library was set up the task of arranging the clothes according to the sizes were placed on us so that it would be easier to distribute. The following day, we distributed the clothing materials to the people, blankets were given to the family who had infants. Later on the day, we opened up the library so that the students of the school could read the books. We helped them and it was a fun learning session. They were filled with gratitude and we were grateful for the hospitality that they provided.