Boom Festival is teaming up with Born Free Art School in India for a educational and environmental project. Reusing waste vegetable oil and taking poor children from the townships is the main aim of India’s “Oil for Education”, a project inspired by “Your Oil Is Music”, Boom 2008 environmental initiative for reusing vegetable oil.

In 2008 Boom Festival developed yet another initiative of its Environmental Program. With a focus on new paradigms for energy, we developed “Your Oil Is Music”, a project for collecting waste vegetable oil in the Idanha-a-Nova region.

The goal was to avoid that more wasted oil ended up in nature (1 litre of oil can pollute up to 1million litres of water) and to reuse the oil for powering the generators at Boom Festival. In the end we used 45,000 litres of waste vegetable oil, avoiding the emission of 117,000 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere.

John Devaraj, head of Born Free Art School, based in Bangalore, addressed Boom Festival for cooperation and knowledge exchange. This is a special school created exclusively for street, working children and freed bonded labor children. Born Free’s aim is to educate these children through the arts, putting them back into mainstream education.

Inspired by “Your Oil Is Music”, “Oil For Education” is a campaign to get street children back to school by building a network if oil collectors. Children are collecting oil from shops, hotels and household waste vegetable oil.

Boom is now supporting the methodology of this noble initiative that is giving back to the children their rights of education, well being and time to develop their affective bonds making them human beings of worth.

About Born Free Art

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