Page 14 - Man Ki Baat Nov 2024 (English)

My dear countrymen, all of how important sparrows are in
you must have seen sparrows everyday life. This organisation
chirping on rooftops or trees trains children to make sparrow
during your childhood. Sparrows nests. For this, the people of the

are known as Kuruvi in Tamil organisation taught the children
and Malayalam, Pichuka in to make a small wooden house.
Telugu and Gubbi in Kannada. In that, arrangements for food
Stories about sparrows are told and shelter are made for the
in every language and culture. sparrows. These are homes that
Sparrows play a very important can be placed on the boundary
role in maintaining biodiversity wall of any building or on a tree.
around us, but today sparrows Children participated in
are hardly visible in cities. Due this campaign with enthusiasm
to increasing urbanisation, and started making nests for
sparrows have gone away from sparrows in large numbers. In the
us. There are many children of last four years, the organisation
today’s generation who have has prepared ten thousand such
seen sparrows only in pictures or nests for sparrows. With this
videos. Some unique efforts are initiative of the Koodugal Trust,
being made to bring back this the sparrow population has
lovely bird in the lives of such started rising in the surrounding
children. Chennai’s Koodugal areas. If you too make such
Trust has involved school efforts in your surroundings,
children in its campaign to sparrows will certainly again
increase the sparrow population. become a part of our lives.
The people of the organisation Friends, an organisation in
go to schools and tell the children Mysuru, Karnataka has started

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