{"id":9647,"date":"2017-03-02T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paisawapas.com\/student-stories\/?p=9647"},"modified":"2017-03-03T01:26:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:56:41","slug":"arushi-madan-story-great-young-environmentalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paisawapas.com\/student-stories\/arushi-madan-story-great-young-environmentalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Arushi Madan’s Fiery Passion to protect “Mother Nature” will crave you deeper!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/del>Meet the passionate young environmentalist Arushi Madan<\/strong> who is working tirelessly to\u00a0 lead the world \u00a0into a greener future. Based out of Delhi (India) Arushi Madan is a student at the University of Birmingham, UK \u00a0in first year of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. Having lived for about 13 years in UAE she did her schooling from Delhi Private School-Sharjah, UAE.
\nShe became the youngest speaker at the Women’s Peak Performance Summit ( WPPS 2014)<\/strong> just at an age of 16. Arushi was also invited for the Global Youth Eco Leadership Summit<\/strong> at Seoul, South Korea in Feb 2014.<\/p>\n

This young\u00a0rising Environment star has set her foot on the mission to inspire and empower more and more eco-warriors to get into action.<\/p>\n

Environment was her passion from childhood and a philosophy that Arushi already lives her life by and is working hard to preserve and protect Mother Nature.<\/p>\n

In conversation with Arushi:<\/p>\n

Q.1: The world belongs to the next generation of leaders and you are certainly one of them. How did environment as a cause come to you? Where did you start from?<\/h3>\n

Ever since I was young, my parents used to tell me to switch off the lights when not in room, not to waste resources, not to throw waste around, keep the place clean, care for plants etc. That\u2019s where my interest in environment built up. It developed into a passion and concern towards environment when I started reading about alarming levels of global warming and its harmful consequences in the form of increasing disasters (like floods, droughts, cyclones), spread of diseases, extinction of species etc.<\/p>\n

\"arushi<\/p>\n

Q.2: Tell us more about yourself? Where do you see yourself in the next few years?<\/h3>\n

Currently I’m pursuing my first year of Electronic and Electrical Engineering <\/strong>at the University of Birmingham, UK.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been advocating the cause of environment conservation and sustainable development, by organizing many environment events and campaigns. I have mobilized youth to work towards environmental protection.<\/p>\n

I have been the Regional Environment Ambassador to the Middle East from 2013 to Aug 2016<\/strong> and joined in Sept 2016 currently I am Regional Environment Ambassador to the UK<\/strong> -appointed by Tunza Eco Generation<\/strong> (initiative by UNEP-United Nations Environment Program and Samsung Engineering. I am the President (2015-2016) and mentor (2016-2017) of youth community group \u201cStudents for the Earth\u201d (member of Earth Charter International youth groups), am Country Incharge for \u201cGreen Dream Earth\u201d, am a brand ambassador of Protect Your Mom (Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign), former President-Student Council (2015-2016) in Delhi Private School-Sharjah and am the founder\/owner of FB group \u2018Ecoholics<\/a>\u2019 aimed at instilling positive environmental values.<\/p>\n

Apart from pursuing environmental and humanitarian causes, I love dancing, playing cricket, & chess.
\nI want to become an Electrical & Electronics Engineer to acquire skills, knowledge and expertise which I can utilize to work on energy projects & contribute to future CLEAN ENERGY WORLD. As part of the electrical engineering team, I aspire to play an important role in the future development of a sustainable world.<\/p>\n

Q.3: What triggered you to become an environmentalist at such a young age?<\/h3>\n

Once I went for \u201cEarth Day walkathon\u201d, I noticed participants happily joining the walkathon without knowing what it is for and what message it is conveying. Ironically, at the end of walkathon, I saw people carelessly throwing waste including empty plastic water bottles, cans, chips wrappers etc. in the open ground. Then I realized that there is lack of awareness on basic environment values in common man. It made me to think how can a serious problem of global warming, an environmental menace, be tackled unless people are aware that problem exists, it is realistic and they are the stakeholders in contributing to the problems and suffering from its consequences. This realization inspired & motivated me to adopt the cause and take up the issue of spreading awareness about protecting environment. Ever since then, I have been into environmental advocacy.<\/p>\n