The Government Higher Primary School, Moodambail, Bantwal taluk and St. Joseph High School, Bajpe, Mangalore taluk, are among the 40 schools in the country selected for Wipro Earthian Sustainability Development Programme this year. As a part of the programme, the Wipro Foundation will be involved with these 40 institutions for a period of three years and hold activities to strengthen sustainability pedagogy practices across various disciplines/subjects in these institutions. In addition, the first 20 schools, which include Government school, are awarded prize money of ₹50,000. Among the activities that these students did include recycling news and other used papers to come up with plain grey papers. These grey papers were used by students for making posters for waste segregation awareness campaign held in the village. These grey papers were also used for drawings, poems and essays of students on waste management. The students also came out with eco bricks formed by inserting covers of toffee, chips and other eatables into empty water and soft drinks bottles.
The children made floormats and bags by using old clothes. Students made pen stands using discarded single-use ballpoint pens.