Samaira Garg’s initiative Made@gain provides notebooks to the needy
16-year-old student Samaira Garg founded 'Made@gain,' an initiative that repurposes waste paper into new notebooks for students in need. By partnering with a recycling firm, the project has successfully converted thousands of kilograms of paper into stationery.
Why it matters
The initiative demonstrates a scalable model for youth-led environmental sustainability and educational support.
Incidents abound where random acts of thoughtfulness trigger a chain reaction no one saw coming. Samaira Garg and her initiative Made@gain charts a similar path.
About two years ago, 16-year-old Samaira, noticed unused sheets in most of her notebooks at the end of the school year and decided to repurpose them. “There were enough sheets to create a few notebooks and I thought these could be helpful for students who couldn’t afford stationery,” says Samaira, a 11th grade student at The International School Bangalore, who was aided in her efforts by friends at school and her apartment complex.
“We were taping them together and could only make around 20 notebooks with 60 to 100 pages. I wanted to do something more because I knew it could make an impact.”
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