Student Cadets Create Books to Give them to Schoolmates

The team is prepared to provide brand-new notebooks to some of their schoolmates who cannot afford school supplies for the upcoming academic year

on May 31, 2023

Student Cadets Create Books to Give them to Schoolmates

Thiruvananthapuram: A group of 88 Cotton Hill School student police cadets (SPC) have created 450 notebooks to be gifted to their fellow students, inspired by their summer school camp where they learned how to make notebooks from scratch.

The team is prepared to provide brand-new notebooks to some of their schoolmates who cannot afford school supplies for the upcoming academic year as well as to the inmates of Sree Chitra Home, under the direction of community police officers V Ajitha and Siji Thomas. Due to a private sponsorship obtained through the Museum police station and contributions from local police officers and students, the initiative was a success.

"As part of this year's SPC summer camp, titled 'I am the Solution,' the cadets participated in a session where they learned to reduce, reuse, and recycle by making products out of waste materials." Students experimented with constructing notebooks out of old books, as well as bags out of ripped jeans and miniature pots out of plastic bottles. "Because notebooks proved to be the best item, we decided to do it on a larger scale with the support of the school and station officers," Ajitha adds. The students and their academic mentors initially went to an offset press to learn about the printing process and the costs associated with purchasing paper and cover pages.

They then went to a godown to pick out the paper, bought it and handed it to be cut, produced a cover page with Cotton Hill School and SPC emblems, and stapled everything together to construct 450 notebooks with 180 pages and an index. These notebooks will be distributed at another event following the reopening of the school.

"We are extremely proud of the student police cadets' social contribution." "We are excited to continue this as a year-round initiative," adds Rajesh Babu V, Cotton Hill's principal HM.