World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on 5 June to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).To commemorate the same budding social workers from Loyola College of Social Sciences came up with a new concept called 'Green Gifters"The day was celebrated by gifting green to one another. Gifting give a sense of being together and through gifting the Loyola Social Workers tried to discover the underlining power of a Sanskrit phrase Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (From "vasudhā", the earth; "ēva" = indeed is; and "kutumbakam", family;) which means "the world is one family". Its high time for us to start gifting green to each other and to protect the earth by holding hands as a family does. It is in this backdrop the budding social workers went and met people in Trivandrum city and tried to spread the culture of gifting green by being with them and convincing them to take a sampling to home. The team could reach more than hundreds of people in the city and could convince them to be a 'Green Gifter'
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