Venkatachalam
A 14-year-old girl in Tiruvannamalai pondered over the complexity of this problem, and also came up with a cool solution.
The one superhero we cannot live without is “iron man”. Washed clothes often lie in heaps in corners of homes, waiting for this superhero to show up with his iron box and work his magic. But, how eco-friendly is it to iron our clothes? What happens to the charcoal that these ironing shops use? Where do they end up? Grown-ups may forget to ask these essential questions, but not children.
A 14-year-old girl in Tiruvannamalai pondered over the complexity of this problem, and also came up with a cool solution. “When we look at the number of ironing carts across each and every street of our country, the quantity of coal being burnt up is not small. All of this adds up to our climate problem,” says Vinisha Umashankar, who is now studying in Class 9 in a private school.
After an in-depth research, Vinisha came up with a solution to this problem – solar ironing carts. All that is required to run these carts is 5 hours of bright sunshine! Vinisha’s novel idea has won her this year’s prestigious Children’s Climate Prize awarded by the Swedish organisation Children’s Climate Foundation, which carries a prize money of Rs 8.64 lakh.
