The idea of Sagar-Mitra came in 2011 – when enthusiastic school children were not permitted to go for a cleanup drive because of the safety issues in a nullah nearly. There was biomedical waste, stray dogs, foul smell and cows around that area.

It was unsafe for the students to be at such a place and hence they were called back to their classrooms.

Students were disappointed. But they showed a lot of energy in really really doing something for this bad situation.

In the conversation, a simple action point emerged – How about cleaning our oceans and rivers from our homes?

Students took it on them to collect plastic at home every month and send it for recycling.

A simple action program slowly found its relevance and slowly turned into a people’s movement

Starting with 150 students to now more than 375000 school children participating in the daily action to save the oceans.

Sagar-Mitra, might seem like a plastic recollection initiative but it isn’t. Sagarmitra empowers school children to take a personal action to solve a global problem of ocean plastics.

Read leadership stories here (Story of Rujul, Hrishikesh/Soham, Ojas and Omkar)

The educational methodology used in the program expands the horizon of a limited view maanav to unlimited view vishwamanav. Want to know more about the decades of research done to create this program? Click here

Sagar-Mitra has reached over 6 cities and more than 4,00,000 volunteers who are being a voice for countless birds, animals, fish etc. dying form our ignorance of throwing plastic every single day.

How many people will have to change in order to save the ocean?

Our children answer – every hand which throw plastic. 8 Billion.