RENDEZVOUS – A Tete-a-Tete with Zero out Carbon

The Rendezvous programme of St. Xavier’s Institute of Education for the B.Ed. batch of 2020-22 culminated with its first and last offline session ‘Zero Out Carbon’ conducted by Fr. Magi Murzello and his team on Tuesday, 26 April 2022.

In order to make this session a success, the student teachers took on various roles and responsibilities. The session began with a warm welcome and a brief introduction of the resource person. Fr. Magi then gave an overview of the purpose of the session and how inculcating a positive attitude among teachers and young learners can really make a difference in the teaching-learning process. He spoke of the importance of India getting started on the road to reducing carbon emissions as promised at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November 2021.

Though the session had a social message, Fr. Magi who is known for his creative ideas and experiments planned it in such a way that it turned out to be a very fun and engaging one. With many activities, he and his team kept up the energy levels of their audience despite it being an extremely hot afternoon. As future teachers, we were reminded of our responsibility and power to spread any message among our students.

The session ended with all participants gaining an insight into how each one of them could reduce their carbon footprint and help Mumbai achieve the target of zero carbon emissions by 2050. The ideas were simple yet strong: sharing, recycling and reusing could save our environment. It showed students that a change in habits and lifestyle was more effective than making sacrifices.

All student teachers and faculty members of SXIE received a sling bag filled with goodies that would daily remind them to renew their promise to save Mother Earth by Zeroing Out Carbon.