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UTSAV report
CMCA’s Annual Exhibition – “Utsav 2010”
CMCA Mumbai celebrated it’s 5th Annual exhibition “Utsav 2010” on Saturday, 23rd January 2010, at Balkan ji bari, Juhu.
The ATS Chief, Maharashtra, Mr. KP Raghuvanshi was our chief guest.
The programme was inaugurated by the chief guest with the lighting of the lamp followed by the hoisting of the CMCA Flag. CMCA’s “Action Heroes” were felicitated for their exemplary acts of active citizenship and they unfurled the 4th pillar of Democracy i.e. “Active Citizenship”.
The principals of the two pioneering schools, Utpal Shanghavi School and Villa Theresa High School who had welcomed CMCA in our very first year were also felicitated.
Trophies for the essay competition on “I Made a Difference” were given by our National Coordinator Ms. Vrunda Bhaskar.
The exhibition, put up by CMCA students and volunteers, was based on specific themes like Air, Water, Earth, Energy and Rights & Responsibilities. The exhibits and games helped spread the message of better practices in the conservation and management of these resources.
NGO’s involved in this field, also put up exhibits to make it a great learning experience for all.
The games, contests, prizes and food made it a fun-filled day for the children. Around 1500 students along with their teachers across the city from various schools attended Utsav 2010.
CMCA Mumbai celebrated it’s 5th Annual exhibition “Utsav 2010” on Saturday, 23rd January 2010, at Balkan ji bari, Juhu.
The ATS Chief, Maharashtra, Mr. KP Raghuvanshi was our chief guest.
The programme was inaugurated by the chief guest with the lighting of the lamp followed by the hoisting of the CMCA Flag. CMCA’s “Action Heroes” were felicitated for their exemplary acts of active citizenship and they unfurled the 4th pillar of Democracy i.e. “Active Citizenship”.
The principals of the two pioneering schools, Utpal Shanghavi School and Villa Theresa High School who had welcomed CMCA in our very first year were also felicitated.
Trophies for the essay competition on “I Made a Difference” were given by our National Coordinator Ms. Vrunda Bhaskar.
The exhibition, put up by CMCA students and volunteers, was based on specific themes like Air, Water, Earth, Energy and Rights & Responsibilities. The exhibits and games helped spread the message of better practices in the conservation and management of these resources.
NGO’s involved in this field, also put up exhibits to make it a great learning experience for all.
The games, contests, prizes and food made it a fun-filled day for the children. Around 1500 students along with their teachers across the city from various schools attended Utsav 2010.
Poem about UTSAV by our volunteer
CMCA UTSAV 2010Was a pleasant morning and for once it was cool,
As walked in students school by school,
Stalls readied ...banners were up,
PPPs were practiced and games set up.
Festivities began, bang on time,
Food too was devoured line by line,
Charts read and lessons learnt.
Making it worthwhile for the mid night oil burnt,
In learning and fun the students engaged
Skits and songs and antakshari wars they waged,
Colorful stalls, green, yellow, orange and blue,
There was something for each child to do...
As the day wore on and the garbage piled in the bins...
Was warmed surrounded by so many active citizens
Innovative, educational..... fun galore,
Went home feeling satiated....couldn’t ask for more.
Anjali Bose
Zonal Coordinator, CMCA Mumbai
As walked in students school by school,
Stalls readied ...banners were up,
PPPs were practiced and games set up.
Festivities began, bang on time,
Food too was devoured line by line,
Charts read and lessons learnt.
Making it worthwhile for the mid night oil burnt,
In learning and fun the students engaged
Skits and songs and antakshari wars they waged,
Colorful stalls, green, yellow, orange and blue,
There was something for each child to do...
As the day wore on and the garbage piled in the bins...
Was warmed surrounded by so many active citizens
Innovative, educational..... fun galore,
Went home feeling satiated....couldn’t ask for more.
Anjali Bose
Zonal Coordinator, CMCA Mumbai
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
A eye opening article by one of our student
Hi all,
I just wanted to share a wonderful experience that I had with a few kids from a group called ‘Apun Ka Club’. It was a great experience. We played games together and had loads of fun. (I went along with many other friends of mine) After all the fun stuff, I heard a very shocking news. Those children (living at simla nagar) got water only for 1 hour throughout the day!! Just 1 hour in 24 hours! Now many of you all might just delete this e-mail or not read any further and mark this e-mail as junk thinking that it might be another lecture about saving water and all. But I request you to read further and see how these people struggle for water. It doesn’t make a difference to us who get water for 24 hours. But imagine them-they get water only for 1 hour throughout the day!! ….. And that’s not all…
This is their situation:
Approximately 7-8 families are expected to get water from ONE tap. Yes, that’s right. Each family has about 4-5 members. So at an average, 40 people are expected to get water form ONE tap.
Every evening one or two members of the family go to the tap at about 5:00 p.m. to collect water for the next 24 hours. After collecting this water they can collect water only the next day at the same time.
However, nowadays the water comes very irregularly. Sometimes at 7:00, sometimes at 7:30 or even at 8:00 p.m.
One of them even told me that on that Sunday, the water did not arrive till 11:30 in the night. Many of them did not even eat their food thinking that if, while they are eating, the water suddenly came, they might not get a chance to collect their share of water for the next 24 hours!
We asked them a question:
If you were standing in line, and by the time you reach the tap or even before that, the water stops coming, what do you do?
Their answer was:
We go to some other tap and fill our water. And if the water has stopped coming there also, we ask our neighbors to lend us a little water so that we can survive. And yes, they very willingly give us.
What an experience!
When we were packing up, a small girl Ganga from ‘Apun Ka Club’ came to Shitalaunty (our Art teacher who has also initiated this 'Apun Ka Club' where she works with these children every Saturday at Shantivan garden) and silently told her, “Didi, paani hi humara jeevan hai!”
So, the next time you are wasting water, just think about these people and see if you can anyhow save that water. And these aren’t the only people. There are many more that we don’t know of!
So this new year try and make a resolution to do something for our mother earth
Thank you.
SAVE WATER, SAVE THE EARTH.
I AM DOING MY BIT.
ARE YOU?
Yours lovingly,
Alomi Parikh
I just wanted to share a wonderful experience that I had with a few kids from a group called ‘Apun Ka Club’. It was a great experience. We played games together and had loads of fun. (I went along with many other friends of mine) After all the fun stuff, I heard a very shocking news. Those children (living at simla nagar) got water only for 1 hour throughout the day!! Just 1 hour in 24 hours! Now many of you all might just delete this e-mail or not read any further and mark this e-mail as junk thinking that it might be another lecture about saving water and all. But I request you to read further and see how these people struggle for water. It doesn’t make a difference to us who get water for 24 hours. But imagine them-they get water only for 1 hour throughout the day!! ….. And that’s not all…
This is their situation:
Approximately 7-8 families are expected to get water from ONE tap. Yes, that’s right. Each family has about 4-5 members. So at an average, 40 people are expected to get water form ONE tap.
Every evening one or two members of the family go to the tap at about 5:00 p.m. to collect water for the next 24 hours. After collecting this water they can collect water only the next day at the same time.
However, nowadays the water comes very irregularly. Sometimes at 7:00, sometimes at 7:30 or even at 8:00 p.m.
One of them even told me that on that Sunday, the water did not arrive till 11:30 in the night. Many of them did not even eat their food thinking that if, while they are eating, the water suddenly came, they might not get a chance to collect their share of water for the next 24 hours!
We asked them a question:
If you were standing in line, and by the time you reach the tap or even before that, the water stops coming, what do you do?
Their answer was:
We go to some other tap and fill our water. And if the water has stopped coming there also, we ask our neighbors to lend us a little water so that we can survive. And yes, they very willingly give us.
What an experience!
When we were packing up, a small girl Ganga from ‘Apun Ka Club’ came to Shitalaunty (our Art teacher who has also initiated this 'Apun Ka Club' where she works with these children every Saturday at Shantivan garden) and silently told her, “Didi, paani hi humara jeevan hai!”
So, the next time you are wasting water, just think about these people and see if you can anyhow save that water. And these aren’t the only people. There are many more that we don’t know of!
So this new year try and make a resolution to do something for our mother earth
Thank you.
SAVE WATER, SAVE THE EARTH.
I AM DOING MY BIT.
ARE YOU?
Yours lovingly,
Alomi Parikh
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