Events in Tamil Nadu

Children Movement for Climate Justice-CMCJ Members are celebrating the World Environmental day every year on June-5. They will observe it as the special day every year and it will be celebrated by planting trees, creating awareness about the global warming and the effects the climate change etc., In the year 2022, theme is “Only One Earth” followed by the CMCJ Members. This will be celebrated as a one week program by the CMCJ Members. It was observed by the children in the village of Suchaneri on 6^th June 2022.

CMCJ Tamilnadu state chapter had organized an event for promoting green village concepts among the people of Suchaneri village in Virudhunagar District on 06.06.2022.  The village panchayat president was participated as the special guest in the event, 15 CMCJ Members, The staff members of RCPDS, 20 and above MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act-2005) workers were participated in the program. Around 102 saplings have been planted in the village ofSuchaneri. CMCJ State Convener Mr.Nirmal Raja gave an awareness talk about the importance of world environmental day celebration. The special pledge and rally had conducted by the CMCJ members with the coordination of Mr.Sadhuragiri, Tamilnadu State Coordinator for CMCJ.It was highly appreciated by the special guest and the people of the sauchneri village. Awareness created among the children and public about the Green Village, plastic free village by the CMCJ Members.

Date : 26-06-2022

CMCJ state chapters have planned to establish CMCJ Movement in new areas and increasing the membership. Accordingly, CMCJ State Chapters identified the likeminded organizations and established CMCJ in various places of Tamilnadu. CARE is an NGO functioning Thirumangalam Block, Madurai Dt. It is running by the priests of the Capuchin Congregation. They were showed interest to form the CMCJ in their working areas. So, CMCJ Tamilnadu state chapter was organized an training program to the children of CARE Organization. The CMCJ concept orientation and training were given by Mr.Sadhuragiri, State Coordinator, Tamilnadu. More than 50 children and volunteers of the CARE organization were participated in the training from various villages of Thirumangalam. Through this training program, the children learned about the CMCJ movement and how to conduct the regular meetings. The special orientation about the rights of children and environmental rights. The procedures of new membership and its fees for enrollment were explained to the children. The children were participated enthusiastically and expressed their interest to become members in this CMCJ movement. Finally all the children took a pledge to plant saplings on their birthdays. Rev Fr.Sathyan, The director of CARE, Mrs.Panchavarnam, The Secretary, CMCJ were participated as the special guests in this event.

Date : 02-05-2022

This training on CMCJ Concept and an awareness program were organized by the Tamilnadu State Chapter for the school students in Kambali village on 02.052022. CMCJ Tamilnadu State Coordinator Mr.Sadhuragiri gave an orientation about the CMCJ to the school students. He shared his experiences and the success stories of the CMCJ.

The awareness created among the students about the issues of climate change and global warming. And also explained about the demerits of the usage of the polythene and the plastic bags in our day to day life. The students learnt about the effects of using the plastic products and polythene bags. RRR-Reuse Reduce and Recycling method was followed to teach the children. Finally, the trees planted in the campus of the school with the participation of the students and the teachers. More than 30 plants planted in the school premises. The students and the teachers expressed their positive comments about the initiatives among the children through CMCJ.

CMCJ Tamilnadu State Chapater and DindigulA nugraha College of Social Sciences College jointly organized an awareness program on Mental Health and Social Responsibilities of Children in Sirunayakanpatti village of Dindigul district on 03.04.2022.Drawing, Sports competitions and traditional games were conducted to the children and the winners appreciated with useful gifts and prizes by the chief guests. MSW students were conducted the special rally with awareness fex-cards about the mental health and the importance of tree plantation. 200 plants were distributed to the children and the public. CMCJ Concept introduced to the children who were participated in the event. It was reached about more than 100 children and the people of the surround villages of the Sirunayakkanpatti, Dindigul dt. The chief guests Rev Fr.Dr.Isaac, The Principal, AISS, Rev.Fr.Sathyan, CARE Foundation, Mr.Chelladurai, RCPDS, Mr.Paul Thomas, National Coordinator and the Msw students Rev.Fr.Velanganni,  Mr.Ramesh were participated in the event. This program was reached more people in the village.

The idea of this position paper stems out of the recent exercise done by the Government of Tamilnadu preparing its mission paper State Action Plan on climate change 2023. State Action Plan for climate change (though there is no scope for child participation and the same is not designed from child perspective) for 2023 as well National Action Plan, the challenges may appear insurmountable, yet as stakeholders, our generation is ready to collaborate in this cause. Many interventions and thrust areas were considered in the State Action Plan but unfortunately the paper lack insight into children right and the issue of climate change being one of the worst form, which can place present and future children into great threat and vulnerability.

Campaign on State Climate Protection policies related to climate change and child rights organised successfully by CMCJ-TN. November 12th, 2016 CMCJ Virudhunagar has celebrated Children’s Day with Special Topic on “PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT FOR FUTURE GENERATION” at Virudhunagar District, jointly with Childline 1098, SPEECH-Sivakasi, SPEECH-Thiruchuli, World Vision, SEEDS and National Child Labour Project, Government of India. About 500 children participated in the program. At the end of the program, they have went to rally on protecting environment. In this meeting, Mr. Sivaganam, District Collector of Virudhunagar inaugurated the function.  Project Director of NCLP and other officials from Police, Agriculture, Agriculture engineering, Labour and Social Welfare departments participated in the meeting.

This report provides an overview of progress made on the workshop on “Logical framework and report writing” organized by Children Movement for Climate Justice (CMCJ) National Office hosted by RCPDS-CMCJ Tamilnadu Chapter as part of RCPDS overall projects from July 8- 10, 2016 at RCPDS Training Centre, Madurai.

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Tamilnadu CMCJ chapter has generated broad base awareness among the general public by organizing a mini marathon in Chennai to observe International Environment Day on the 05th June 2015 on Chennai Marina Beach, Service Lane, starting from the Labor Statue to Lighthouse. This event was jointly organised by CMCJ in collaboration with Rotaract of Spectrum and News7 Tamil as Media Partner. We titled the Mini Marathon as Envi-THON 2015 where “Envi” stands for Environment and “THON” stands for Marathon. Its focus was to bring awareness among the general public about Global Warming, create visibility CMCJ and to enlighten the general Public about importance of Environment.

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CMCJ Tamil Nadu chapter, one of the Partner of RCPDS Celebrated Ozone Day. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, an important milestone in the protection of the ozone layer. The theme for the celebration of the anniversary and this year’s International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer to be marked on 16 September is, “30 years of healing the ozone together.” The theme is supported by the slogan, “Ozone: All there is between you and UV.”  CMCJ TN Partner- RCPDS have organised the program in MelainthalVillage. This program mainly focuses on the children to aware about the Ozone layer and Ecological rights.

CMCJ-TN has successfully formed a District level Core Committee for enabling children to act independently. This core committee consists of 15-20 CMCJ members of the District. They will meet once in a month to prepare action plan at District Level. This committee has appointed a District Coordinator for coordinating the activities with the support State Coordinator. This committee members also meet once in three months to discuss the progress the activities and planning for alternative ways.