Events in Tamil Nadu

Keel-Idaynkulam is a small village consisiting of 64 families’ all dalits- located in the border of Narikudi and Kariapatti blocks of Virudhunagar district. Mayili is a nearby village to Keel-Idaynkulam village where the upper caste people are high which at time reflects in dalit children being discriminated and case conflicts exist.  Dynamic young leaders from Keel-Idayankulam village created a forum of 25 adolescent’s children and youth from to make constructive change in environment and sanitation. Children from the village trained and learned many aspects of climate change its implementation to child rights from Child led ecological learning Centre.  The forum will involve in protecting the environment and sanitation, creating awareness to the local community. They have planted trees in their houses, planted medicinal plants in a common place. They have creatively formed a water channel to medicinal plants farm land from waste water for the effective growth of plants.

On World Day against Child Labour, Say NO to child labour – YES to quality education!

CMCJ Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have organized World day against Child labour at the respective states on 12th June. About 700 school children & 150 women SHG members participated in this campaign. Hand bills were
11 distributed to the public. Awareness generated in 24 villages for children on Free, compulsory and quality education for all children and New efforts to ensure that national policies on child labour; Policies that ensure access to quality education and investment in the teaching profession.

Our CMCJ members managed to raise Rs.1,00,000/- from Virudhunagar District for Cuddalore flood relief , which were mainly spent in support of children from SASY organization at Cuddalore district, mainly to meet their school supply requirements and emergency food requirements. We are children from CMCJ ,RCPDS and Speech organisation distributed 200 School bags (5nos of note books, stationeries, candles and other materials) and 200 rice bags (5kg of rice in each bag) to CMCJ and other children in Perangipettai area on 12.12.2015.

Learning to know the traditional seed varieties is part of knowledge building around food security and sovereignty. CMCJ, Virudunagar jointly with RCPDS and SPEECH as facilitating partners organised as seed festival which was visited by 2000 plus children and adults in and around Virudunagar. The exhibition included models from children led ecological learning centre, economically viable farming system models to motivate farmers to encourage their children to get involved in agriculture, preparation of variety of food stuff as well organic inputs. There were 25 stalls with range of information related to food security and sovereignty. Fellow NGO from Seerkazhai called CIKS came up with almost 40 different varieties of traditional paddy seeds which being used by farmers in their region. Selvakumar shared his expertise with decentralised vermi compost preparation which is linked to backyard garden and micro entrepreneurship of organic vegetable sale by dalit communities in Kamuthi area. A separate corner was established to advocate child rights violations complaint mechanisms as part of child protection. Self help groups came with their traditional eatables and practical recipes which were shared among participants at free of cost. Special stalls by the women self help groups serving minor millet food stuff like keerai vadai, varagu biriyani, keppai payasam and many more. The women also taught children how to prepare these items through simple recipes.

The best part of the seed festival and exhibition was the overwhelming support extended by the Chief Education Officer, Virudunagar District who found high value for such initiative and sent circular to all high and higher secondary school headmasters to send their children to the exhibition as well passed another order asking all schools in the district to make the “pasumai padai” “Green Brigade” team to closely work with CMCJ. This is a great mile stone crossed along the mainstreaming direction. Great event.

The state level consultation meeting was organized by RCPDS and CMCJ in Madurai on 3rd and 4th of October 2014. About 60 Children and staff from the TN CMCJ groups of various organisations like SASY, CCRD, RCPDS, SPEECH etc., participated in the consultation meeting. The participants were elected by the members of CMCJ and they will stand as State Level Committee. The main content of the meeting focussed on State and National level committee, membership database compilation and website designing, Action Plan for next 2 years was decided by the CMCJ participants. The overall meeting was facilitated by Mr. Jone, State Co-ordinator and Mr. Nirmal Raja, State Convenor of CMCJ

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State level committee meeting are being organized the CMCJ Tamil Nadu Chapter in Madurai RCPDS Training Centre on October 3rd and 4th. Five CMCJ representatives from each organisation are going to participate in the meeting.

Reports will be published Soon… Stay Tuned

Signature Campaign Rally conducted by CMCJ children on Prevention of Ozone Depletion by preserving forests and by the avoidance of Green house Gases. The rally was organised by Chennai Marialaya, member of CMCJ-KNH. The rally started from Chennai Railway colony with an inauguration by Police Inspectors of Korukkupet and Basin Bridge Stations.

The Key Slogans raised by the children during the rally are,

1. Limiting the usage of electricity

2. Avoiding the usage of transport exposing the Green house gases (Methane,  Chlorofluoro carbon)

3.Tree planting in each house

4. Reusage of plastic items

5. Save environment from global warming

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