Events in Andhra Pradesh, Events in Tamil Nadu

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.

CMCJ odisha Chapter was organised 3rd State Level Meeting on October 10 and 11th 2015 at IRDWSI Semiliguda. Participant from IRDWSI , LEAD, PREM, SEDP children, Directors and CMCJ National Co-ordinator are participated in this meeting. The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss about on last state level planning meeting, Membership Fees, Issues, Challenges, Action Plan for 6 month (October 2015 – March 2016) and 5 years activities of CMCJ for new proposal.

Theme: Protection of Wild Life & Conservation

CMCJ AP/ K chapter organized Essay Writing, Quiz & Drawing on Wild Life Protection to CMCJ members and also awareness campaign on Wlid life protection , Human Chain and Public Speech , totally 300 Participants from CMCJ AP/ K , Odisha , ZMOe- German Volunteers, Govt School and Social welfare Girls & Boys Hostel Children.

Chief Guest

# Dr.Raju, Prof of Psychology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam , # Mr.Sathish Samuel ,KNH- India Country Co-ordinator, #‎Mr.LaxmanRao, IFS, DFO, Narsipatnam,

# Mr.V.Sreenivasa Rao, Sub Inspector of Police, Kotauratla , #‎Dr.John Devavaram , CMCJ National convenor ,

# Mr.Vijaykumar ,Supt, Forest Department, Narsipatnam

CMCJ Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka chapter was organised 4th state level meeting on October 3rd and 4th October 2015 at Cefha, Field office, Kotaurala. Mr.Sathish Samuel , KNH- India Country Co-ordinator , Dr.John Devavaram , CMCJ National convenor ,Prof .P. Rambabu, M.sc., A.P. Social Welfare Residence, Mr.S.Vijaykumar, M.B.A., COGNIZANT Technologies, Hyderabad, Mr.Sushant Stanley CMCJ Odisha Convenor and CMCJ Members
are Participated in the Meeting.
• Discussion on State level Programme of AP & Karnataka
• Next 5 years CMCJ focus By CMCJ Group discussion & reports
• Discussion &Finalization of one year action plan (2015-2016)by the CMCJ AP /K members

15th KNH India Partners Meeting was held at Christ University, Bangalore on 04 & 05 September 2015. Mr. Guido Falkenberg, Team Leader for India; Mr. Gerd Heidchen, Head Sponsorship Department , Mr.Joerg Denker Head of Asia, India Country Co-ordinator Mr.Sathish Samuel , National convenor of CMCJ, State Convenor , Co-ordinators, CMCJ representative and Partners organisation have participated in the meeting. On the second of the partners meeting there was a Workshop on “ Challenges for Children & Youth In the Context of Unsustainable Development”. In this workshop CMCJ Representatives & State Co-ordinators presented on the topic and discussed about the issues existing in rural and urban areas facing by the children.

CMCJ Inter Cultural dialogue on climate change was held on 15th April 2015 at IRDWSI, Semliguda with CMCJ members from the two states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. CMCJ children from AP and Odisha went to exposure visit in the nearest place and took survey about the displacement. They mainly focused on the following questions
1. Impact and effect of climate changes
2. Impact on Livelihood on indigenous life / Environment
3. What are the changes are occurred in those destructed areas by the industries?
The major issues in the displacement areas:
 Unemployment
 Displacement
 Poverty
 Landless labours

We each spent a week in South India near Madurai, in the establishment of RCPDs (Resource Centre for Participatory Development Studies) and the CeFHA (Centre for Humanitarian Assistance Trust) near Visakhapatnam. Even before we had received from both projects weekly plans with the activities during our stay.

Our first stop was in RCPDs Yirudu Nagar, an organization that works with children emergency since 2007. In the early days we learned the nature of the project, know the staff and the different fields of work. We visited a school and two small villages in the area where we were able to talk with members of the children’s and women’s self-help groups about their experiences with the company through RCPDs.

The women told us about many changes that enriched their lives since the collaboration. Through the help of the staff, they learned to structure their daily lives and the life of the family and gained independence. There are regular meetings where women have the opportunity to exchange and jointly develop ideas and plans.

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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.

1. Monthly meeting among children’s clubs – 45 minutes of interactions
2. Continuing farming and making manures for our own uses – growing vegetables – growing millets (Food crops) in both of our land – one our farming work and encouraging the visitors and guest also to be part of it
3. Initiating Honnonsi village as the green village.

Concept of green village:

1. A tree for each house
2. A kitchen garden for each house from drainage water
3. Protection of water is our protection
4. My school-green school
5. Reduce plastic – Good environment –healthy village
6. Seeds-our right
7. Bio-fertilizers and pesticides
8. Food crops- healthy life
9. Alternative energies
10. Life with dignity-our right

Annual plan of action CMCJ Karnataka

October 2014             Capacity building to 24 DGB members on CMCJ objectives, structure, Activities etc.
November 2014                  Child and ecological rights training for 24 members
December 2014                  Child Protection Policy training
January 2015                      CMCJ membership campaign
February 2015                    Training on OP3 –CRC
April 2015                   Orientation to neighbouring farmers on Sustainable agriculture practices. And releasing of songs
May 2015                           Traditional seed collection
June 2015                          Inauguration proposed Green village and book release.
July 2015                           Signature campaign on OP3 –CRC and memorandum to DC
August 2015                      Evaluation by District general body members.