Location- Green Park Market
Fighting to get a nail out.
Look what we found beneath a poster: an infestation of termites.
Checking for nails beneath the boards.
This came our from a tree?
Friday's event was fantastic!
Watching 'Wasted', the journey of our city's waste, was really eye-opening. The movie had a huge impact and was followed by a discussion on Delhi's poorly executed waste disposal system. As discussions often do, it led the Wooders into an interesting conversation about several things including the true meaning of 'Urban Development'.
Is a city developed when it has posh societies, tall buildings and rich citizens even though it has no place to put all the waste generated by them?
As time flew by, all the volunteers moved to Khan Market to begin our second de-nailing drive. Like the last one it had great impact! the volunteers attacked all the nail and copper with much enthusiasm and the trees around Khan Market were proudly declared nail-free!
1:57 PM
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Chief Wooder
Monsoon Wooding is hosting another event on Friday, 30th May.
We will screen "Wasted", an award winning short film made by Swechha We For Change, at the Swechha office :3rd floor, B1/46, Malviya Nagar.
All interested, please come to the office at 2 pm.
Following the screening, all volunteers will move to Khan Market to begin our 2nd de-nailing drive.
We hope that it will be as or even more successful than the G.K. drive!
Do come!
Monsoon Wooding launched its first de-nailing drive on the 16th of May, in and around the M block market in GK I.
The objective was twofold: one to remain within the main market, giving out saplings as tokens to spread awareness and the other to move from tree to tree freeing them from nails, wires or barbed fences.
Our first target was a nasty barbed fence wound around several Ashoka trees. The bark of the tree had grown around the wire and it was so entrenched that taking it out took more than an hour. While a group worked on these trees, the rest of us spread out to go further into the residential parts of that area.
We encountered challenges of varying degrees from 6 inch nails to resilient posters, but we received tremendous help from shopkeepers, taxi drivers and auto rickshaw drivers.
We met after our de-nailing efforts in the market's central park and proceeded to give out our token saplings and spread the word. The GK shoppers were very supportive and we were soon out of plants!
It turned out to be an excellent event with a lot of support from volunteers and concerned citizens of Delhi!
Fighting to get a nail out.
Look what we found beneath a poster: an infestation of termites.
Checking for nails beneath the boards.
This came our from a tree?
We met after our de-nailing efforts in the market's central park and proceeded to give out our token saplings and spread the word. The GK shoppers were very supportive and we were soon out of plants! 
It turned out to be an excellent event with a lot of support from volunteers and concerned citizens of Delhi!
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