Transgender persons play eco warriors
The Hindu
A group of volunteers cleans the beach at Nemili
On Saturday morning, 33-year-old Rakshitha Prabhakaran left from Perumbakkam at 5 a.m. to the beach near Nemili. Soon after her friends joined her, a group of persons playing football stared at them and murmured about their presence. But, they joined the transgender persons in picking up plastic waste.
Eight transgender persons collected close to 50 kg of plastic waste during the beach clean-up organised by Pharm Foundation and Utkarsh Global Foundation, a non-profit organisation.
“We were more than thrilled that they joined us in the cleaning process. Earlier, we were casual about disposing plastics and didn’t have any awareness about its implications on the environment. But now that we engaged in this initiative, it changed our perception and the need to be careful and do little things to protect the environment,” Rakshitha, a postgraduate in Chemistry, said.
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