The month of May ’09 was devoted for our duty towards the environment.
Oracle SSI’s Clean-up Campaign at Lalbagh, Bangalore
Oracle SSI organized a ‘Clean-up Campaign at Lalbagh’ on 16th May along with Rotaract Club, as a part of the Oracle Volunteers Earth Day Celebrations. 30 Oracle volunteers and 10 Rotaract Club members were part of the cleaning campaign.
This initiative was to contribute towards the nature. Oracle SSI tried to set an example by doing the cleaning ourselves. The volunteers started their cleaning operation at the Kempe Gowda Tower in Lalbagh. All the volunteers were high on enthusiasm and everybody wanted to make a difference by doing their wee-bit.
The idea was to target the most polluted areas in the garden. At the end of the day, this drive proved to achieve the aim of inculcating a sense of ‘civic sense’ among visitors who were found littering the place.
Oracle SSI’s ‘Adopt-a-Tree’ Campaign
Hundreds of Oracle SSI employees in India, who volunteered time and resources during the year to enhance the community and environment they live in, had undertaken a tree plantation drive in Bangalore to celebrate World Environment Day. Employees from Oracle SSI are going to plant over 600 trees at the Eco Education Centre in Avalahalli, Bangalore. The initiative has been taken in partnership with Eco Watch, an organization that works towards promoting sustainable development across cities.
Oracle SSI volunteers have already planted over a hundred saplings of a number of different varieties of trees in the Eco Education Centre with the aim of addressing the issue of the depleting green cover in Bangalore. The employees will continue the tree planting activity over the forthcoming weeks to plant more of the saplings that they have adopted. A part of Oracle’s corporate citizenship and 'Go Green' initiatives undertaken by employees in India, the tree plantation drive seeks to benefit the community where they live and work in. Click here to view the news article that was featured in EFYtimes.com.
