Students Celebrate Earth Day by Gardening

HCC Nepal Earth Day From after-school tutoring to organizing cleanups of Bal Mandir orphanage, HCC students are no strangers to giving back to their communities. Now HCC students are working to give back to the earth by forging environmentally sustainable solutions in their own backyard at Khushi Ghar.

Led by HCC Graduate Khil Bahadur Thapa, HCC Class of 2016, 20 students participated in a new solution to reusing waste through their Bottle Gardening Project. Students creatively recycled common waste items like Coke bottles, Fanta bottles, and curd pots by turning them into mini gardening pots to grow vegetables. Students are currently engaged in a friendly competition by dividing up into two teams and seeing how quickly they can coax a vegetable garden to grow. Students are growing chili, okra, coriander, and beans. Through this exercise in teamwork, students are also learning about sustainable practices for the environment and their own self-sufficiency. Students are now equipped to grow their own plants to provide economically and environmentally sustainable solutions to save money and protect the planet.

HCC Nepal Earth Day Gardening

Finally the day arrived and we had to arrive at the venue by 3. We rushed to the models and did the final fittings. By that time, Dinesh Uncle, Hira Aunt and Bruce Uncle had arrived. As my sequence was on the 4th we had a huge rush backstage that let me meet them only for a brief minute and we couldn’t even click a picture together. Show started at 7. After the third sequence we had the models change into our designs. Finally, our design was on the runway, and we walked at the end of the sequence with our showstopper, Simpal Kharel. While walking on the runway, there were a huge number of audiences, included; designers, press media, journalists, photographers, ambassadors, etc. After our sequence, we went backstage and we really had a roller coaster of emotions. All those sleepless nights, stresses, no meal days and all the difficulties we went through were finally over. It was worth everything. This concludes my three years of learning and we had the chance to showcase it to the crowd and people. After our sequence we finally had the time to breather. All along these past three months it felt as if somebody had put on something in our neck as we were suffocating but now it felt as if it had been let go. We could breathe in peace.

After the runway we had a huge feast and that tasted like the best meal that I had for the entire life.