Sagar-Mitra (Friends of Oceans) is an educational initiative led by a school students for saving our planet with a small everyday action. Through everyday engagement in recollecting plastic, Sagar-Mitra volunteers are lying a path for saving lives of innocent birds, fish, animals and living forests in the ocean. Around 10-11Million Metric Tons of plastic ends up in the oceans every year killing countless lives of birds, fish, animals and ocean greenery. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) does not treat ocean plastics and global warming as separate issues; rather, they view them as deeply interconnected crises.

Sagar-Mitra is built on a simple yet powerful philosophy:

Head – Heart – Hands

• Head: Understanding the impact of plastic pollution on the river and oceanic ecosystems
• Heart: Developing empathy for nature and living beings
• Hands: Taking consistent action through collection and recycling

This approach ensures that awareness is not limited to knowledge — it becomes emotion and action.

Volunteers at Sagar-Mitra are determined to take a small action every day to save the planet from their own homes. Sagar-Mitra Volunteers collect plastic at home and bring it to school once a month and then it is further sent to recycling.

Sagar-Mitra began in 2011 in Pune with a simple yet powerful insight and today, it stands as a model of how grassroots action can scale into systemic change.

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