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.

Nature and indigenous communities have a long sustained relationship. It is often, seen that the Sacred Groves happen to be the most common connect with the people and nature. The study used social science research methods to determine local attitudes toward the sacred groves, elements of sacred grove management including restrictions on resource use, as well as ceremonies associated with sacred groves. The study also associates to derive information regarding the disappearances of these sites due to cultural change and pressure to use the natural resources that they contain. The current sacred groves are Trees with ample protection and spiritual value. This study in a way tries to report on traditional rules that support conservation by limiting activities within the vicinity of Sacred Groves. The study also was to learn the traditional medicinal system and the current changing trends with the changing value system and grading the knowledge that is being transferred to the next generation and the elements of lacunae that had vanished with time.

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.

Two days consultation meeting was held at the constitution club of India, New Delhi on the 10^th and 11^th of August 2017. Representatives and leaders of various organizations from all over the country participated in the meet. The meeting mainly focused on zero discrimination in school education. As far as India is concerned caste plays a major role almost in every sector. The very start of caste is been seen in schools, were children from the SC/ST community are being neglected of their basic rights in schools and are discriminated between the higher caste children. Representatives from CMCJ were also part of the meet. Two CMCJ members from Tamil Nadu along with the national coordinator

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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