RAJ BHOWMIK - RB-PFP

SOULBATH PEACE FOUNDATION'S

Initiative towards a 'PLASTIC FREE WORLD'

RAJ BHOWMIK PLASTIC FREE PLANET MOVEMENT

(RB-PFP)

  @ Rs. 25/-

Bio degradable & Eco friendly  Cotton Cloth bags now available @ Rs 25 at Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune & Jaipur. Delivery is FREE all over India for bulk orders over 500 quantity.

OPTION TO GET YOUR OWN COMPANY LOGO/NAME PRINTED ON THE BAG. SIZE OF THE BAG CAN BE CUSTOMIZED

(Bag Size 14.2 " x 11.2 ") (Bag material- Good Quality Cotton Cloth. Use it over and over again!)

"Join hands with us to help build a Plastic-Free Planet. Your support will make a difference"

- SUPPORT BY DONATIONS

- SUPPORT BY BUYING BAGS FROM US

- SUPPORT BY EMAILING THIS PAGE LINK TO YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY

(*Your Donations for this project will be Income-Tax exempt under 80-G)

Email us:-  rb.pfpindia@gmail.com

RB-PFP YOUNG AMBASSADOR INVITATION

RB-PFP MOVEMENT is inviting motivated young ambassadors in schools and colleges who have a dream to make a difference to the world. If you have the passion and the love for our environment then the Raj Bhowmik Group will sponsor and support your dream wholeheartedly. Write to us.

RB-PFP Ambassadors @ Schools, INDIA

RB-PFP Ambassadors @ Colleges, INDIA

Know more about this dynamic Group visit their web pages by clicking on the links below-

 http://rebags.wordpress.com/teams/

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=130051660352052

A Heart-touching letter written to Raj Bhowmik by a Class 6 student!

Raj Bhowmik Plastic Free Planet Movement (RB-PFP Movement)

Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, Chennai. January 18, 2011.

(Submitted by SPF Volunteer)

The RB-PFP Team was invited to address 160 children from Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, Chennai. Children who were in grade 8 about age 13 were part of the program.

Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School believes in providing opportunities to children by exposure and actively engaging the children to be part of the real life projects. One such effort was the children being part of the RB-PFP Movement.

The RB-PFP interaction was to help children become aware of the active use of plastic bags in our daily existence and how easily and freely we use it abundantly & throw away without thinking to pick up another one.

An interaction with the Vice Principal of the school Mrs. Meenakshi S prior to the event gave a brief idea about the school’s plan to actively participate with the RB-PFP Movement for the coming year by involving the students and the parent community at large. The vision of the school is to make the school premise Plastic Free.

Children at Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School were very enthusiastic to participate and discuss about how Plastic enters the eco system and the food chain. They were very motivated to hear that “children” were chosen for a movement and that it was the children who could make a difference.

The children at Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School were extremely keen to become volunteers and spread the message to fellow students in other grades and continue keeping in touch to help the movement grow. The RB-PFP Team has set up a student council in school that will be active to carry the message in the current year.

It was heart touching to hear one of the students explain their experience of standing for a cause and how passionate children are when they believe in something that excites them. In her words – “I love a tree in my neighborhood and some people were cutting it. When I hugged the tree to save it, the people thought I was mad and called my parents who just took me away. She said, I want to stand up for a cause like RB-PFP because I need support of an organization in what I believe. One cannot do it alone single handedly”

The economy of the bag and the affordability was discussed as children understood what was needed to spread the word in their neighborhood, shops, complexes, friends and relatives, chemists and temples. This list was also suggested by them.

The RB-PFP interaction focused on simple strategies that could be incorporated at homes to stop plastics, how would they create a need in the local community about the bag and how the Raj Bhowmik Group would support the RB-PFP School ambassadors by providing them with the RB-PFP Cloth bag supply to continue spreading the message of a Plastic Free World.

Our Founder, Raj Bhowmik’s vision is to spark creativity & motivate children, so that they understand that there is so much more to learn & achieve to enhance their lives. In his words- 

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TESTIMONIALS

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We asked Children, -"Why do you want to become a RB-PFP Movement Ambassador?"

I want to create a better place for my children and for the future citizens of the world. I badly want to be part of this Group. I will do anything and I will go anywhere. It doesn’t matter. I just want the message to spread “STOP PLASTIC” It is our Mother Earth. As an old American Native saying goes “ We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors but we borrow it from our children.”

            - R. Amoga Krishnan (Grade 8, Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School)

I am really interested to be part of this movement because I don’t want my Mother Earth to suffer for all what she has done to us by being Kind.

            - Nikita Murali (Grade 8, Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School)

The RB-PFP is doing a very good job. More than that, it is giving importance to children from my age.

            - C. Abishek (Grade 8, Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School)

I want to be a part of the RB-PFP Movement because this movement is going to change the future.

            - S. Guru Prasath (Grade 8, Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School)

Because I care for my country, world and of course myself.

            - Krithika Sonali (Grade 8, Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School)

I care for my earth and I’ll even give my life to keep it clean from pollution.

            - K. Deepak Prakash (Grade 8, Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School)

Because I want to be kind to Mother Earth.

            - Ramya Ashok Kumar (Grade 8, Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School)

I am a global citizen and it is my duty to make our world better. It is necessary to be the change and to fuel the cause.

            - Sai Mirra R (Grade 8, Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School)

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Sri Sankara School have expressed their keen desire to collaborate with the RB-PFP Movement to make the first step by ensuring all children from the next academic year carry lunch in cloth bags to school. They thanked Raj Bhowmik as the RB-PFP talk created a platform to bring a cohesive group together to spread the essence of a Green Planet to 2000 parents and children so that this would be like one step taken together as a community.

(Mrs. Meenakshi S. -Vice Principal, Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, Chennai with Raj Bhowmik's book 'CORPORitual')

Raj Bhowmik Plastic Free Planet Movement (RB-PFP)

in Abacus Montessori School, Chennai

52 young, enthusiastic children from Abacus Montessori School participated in the RB-PFP Movement interaction organized in their school from Grades 5 and 6.

“Everytime I go to the shopping market I get along at least 12 plastic bags. Now when I go, I will remember what we have discussed and carry my own shopping bag.”, declared the school principal Mrs Joan Elango.

During the interaction children understood the uses of Plastic in their everyday lives and how one could easily substitute it with natural products such as cotton, jute & coconut that are bio degradable and go back to the earth.

The RB-PFP Interaction focused on how the plastic gets into our food chain and how it is affecting various species that will directly/ indirectly affect man some day. Enthusiastic children responded how they have seen reduction of plastic in the International market and voices made strong suggestions of how they could carry this Plastic Free Message in their communities, family business houses, homes and neighborhoods.

Children were touched when they understood how the Raj Bhowmik Group supported their dream and passion and how sometimes as children we believe in a cause but the greatest hindrance is raw material. Here they thanked Raj Bhowmik who appreciated and nurtured young dreams & fuelled them in action through these bags were being distributed to the children freely, when they wanted to carry the message in the community.

In a child’s word, she said that “parents always think that we are too small to believe in something. They think we are just saying something without believing that we are serious.” It is heart touching to see how at this young age, every child was so passionate about life and beliefs and how adults sometimes can ignore it. Once we ignore it, sometime that we use so regularly in our lives – Plastic & using it becomes our second nature as we know nothing else.

Children at Abacus Montessori School were full of questions about the process of bag making and were super excited to carry the personal RB-PFP branded bag home for their family. Children from the school have followed up by placing orders to distribute the RB-PFP bags to their neighbors and other members in the school.

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TESTIMONIALS

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We asked Children, -"Why do you want to become a RB-PFP Movement Ambassador?"

The planet is in jeopardy and I want to save it.

            - Sameer Barretto (Grade 6 Abacus Montessori School, Chennai)

Because it is a good idea to join you and I think the world depends on me and from this movement I and my family are going to stop using plastic.

            - Meenakshi Ramalingam (Grade 6 Abacus Montessori School, Chennai)

I want to be part of RB-PFP because I want a clean and green earth when I grow up.

            - J. Venkat (Grade 6 Abacus Montessori School, Chennai)

I want to be part of the movement because I want the world after a few generations to be plastic free.

            - Jonathan Saldanha (Grade 6 Abacus Montessori School, Chennai)

I want to be a part because I want to make a difference starting from small shops to the city to the nation.

            - Nikita Kurian (Grade 6 Abacus Montessori School, Chennai)

I want to be part of the movement because I want our planet to be very healthy and I want it also not to die so fast.

            - Tatyana (Grade 6 Abacus Montessori School, Chennai)

Soulbath Peace Foundation

January 29th, 2011

Raj Bhowmik Plastic Free Planet Movement Camp at Sangford School  

in Kanchipuram - The Land of the 1000 Temples in India

The RB-PFP Bags reached the land of 1000 temples Kanchipuram. Young Priyadarshini – a 12 year old RB-PFP Ambassador from Chennai and 8 year old Anirudh played a key-part to reach out with this message to other friends in Kanchi. SPF thanks little Priyadarshani and Anirudh.

The generous Raj Bhowmik Group not only supplied them with more RB-PFP Bags but also walked along them to address children their age at Kanchipuram.

The RB-PFP Bags reached Sangford Schools. The RB-PFP Young Ambassadors Team addressed about 20 children from Sangford Schools who pledged to start using cloth bags from their homes even before they can make a difference outside.

Open minded parents took the Raj Bhowmik Plastic Free Planet DREAM very seriously in their homes – they chose to change their home plates that were earlier plastic to another material

The completely biodegradable RB-PFP Bags that are so light and easy to carry are suitable for also carrying lunch boxes and water bottles to schools. This is a serious option that children considered during the presentation – To make choices of simple activities that could alter the eco system.What is heartening is that man has become such a large consumer that often we do not go beyond our immediate needs to see what is happening to the end product and the life cycle of what we are using.

Are we conscious? Do we intend to know? Do we want to pause and look beyond our needs? These are serious pointers that the Raj Bhowmik Plastic Free Planet Bags choose to create.

As young ambassadors with fresh, new minds and adult support through parents and school, this intends to touch the hearts of many being simple in its approach and strong in its impact.

Children are children – like clay that can be moulded into thinking innovatively. The RB-PFP Bags through this interaction only posed questions that helped these young minds make choices for themselves to begin with and introspect and become the Change.

 “If you have a song that your soul desires to sing, prepare the stage today to sing it out loud!”  Raj Bhowmik

The Raj Bhowmik Plastic Free Planet Bags is a song of every heart that cares for Mother Earth and chooses to give back to Her.

(Dump Yard Pictures: Heavy load of plastic piled and dumped)

A plastic dump yard in the of "The Land of 1000 Temples"...What a pity!

This site is common in many other cities across the country. Plastic is often dumped in landfills and sometimes burnt. As these are open lands, cattle graze near by and gets affected.

Kanchipuram, being the land of temples, the 'Holy Prasad' is given in easy plastic covers and the more the visitors to the town, more plastic consumed, and hence it results in more dumping in the outskirts of the city.

The Raj Bhowmik Plastic Free Planet Movement'sefforts is to help individuals in the community understand the life cycle of a product and become aware of the use.
 

Every Drop Counts!

Small steps... where no one has ever gone before...

To promote the spirit of the "Raj Bhowmik Plastic Free Planet Movement" and create awareness at the grass-root level, SPF distributes FREE Cloth bags in bulk and educates the road-side shops and street vendors who cannot afford buying cloth bags.

We need to reach in with the awareness of the urgency of the plastic-free planet movement to the grass-root level

if a real change has to happen anytime soon.

These efforts might be just tiny drops across small and remote corners today, but one day these very drops will proudly be a part of the well-spread ocean. In the fresh abundant surrounding the small drops might be forgotten... But did the drop ever bother to drop there? 

- Raj Bhowmik

For 2011, we are accepting donations for this initiative. Email us for more details.

Email:-  rb.pfpindia@gmail.com

Till now we have distributed FREE bulk RB-PFP bags in cities of Bangalore, Mangalore, Mumbai, Jaipur, Pune, Jodhpur, Chennai... and counting...

Keep watching this space for regular updates...

Contact the RB-PFP Movement in India:

Email us:-  rb.pfpindia@gmail.com