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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
Monday, December 14, 2009
Poems from our young members
OUR WORLD
When this world was made,
it was so neat and clean.
Why must mankind have been so mean?
The ponds and rivers flow so free.
But clean again they will never see.
The sky and clouds were a sight to be seen,
Now it is a struggle to keep them clean.
Aditya Das
VIII C HFS, Powai
Smoke, smoke going up to the sky.
Vehicles on road, make us cry
Oh! Every where pollution, pollution,
Let us all hurry to find a solution.
Factories belch so much smoke,
That makes our throat choke
Oh! Everywhere is pollution, pollution,
Let us hasten to find a solution.
Not only metros, even villages suffer,
Alas! Only in degrees it differs!
All round is pollution, pollution,
Let us not delay to find a solution.
We had better grow many more trees,
Surely then pollution hazard will decrease.
Let us not cut any more trees,
We all will breath in peace.
Ayushi Maitha, Std VII
Shri Balaji International School
NATURE CLEANLINESS
Please don’t be careless,
Have some civic awareness
Earth should be clean,
And very much green
Do not use plastic,
Then it would be fantastic
Lets start garbage seggregation
By dry & wet garbage seperation
Collecting garbage will keep earth clean,
And nature will be better like you have never seen
So let us gather
And do everything together.
Vaishnavi Jadav (VIII A)
S. M. Shetty School.
When this world was made,
it was so neat and clean.
Why must mankind have been so mean?
The ponds and rivers flow so free.
But clean again they will never see.
The sky and clouds were a sight to be seen,
Now it is a struggle to keep them clean.
Aditya Das
VIII C HFS, Powai
Smoke, smoke going up to the sky.
Vehicles on road, make us cry
Oh! Every where pollution, pollution,
Let us all hurry to find a solution.
Factories belch so much smoke,
That makes our throat choke
Oh! Everywhere is pollution, pollution,
Let us hasten to find a solution.
Not only metros, even villages suffer,
Alas! Only in degrees it differs!
All round is pollution, pollution,
Let us not delay to find a solution.
We had better grow many more trees,
Surely then pollution hazard will decrease.
Let us not cut any more trees,
We all will breath in peace.
Ayushi Maitha, Std VII
Shri Balaji International School
NATURE CLEANLINESS
Please don’t be careless,
Have some civic awareness
Earth should be clean,
And very much green
Do not use plastic,
Then it would be fantastic
Lets start garbage seggregation
By dry & wet garbage seperation
Collecting garbage will keep earth clean,
And nature will be better like you have never seen
So let us gather
And do everything together.
Vaishnavi Jadav (VIII A)
S. M. Shetty School.
Articles by our young members
Water, Why we should save it ??
Mumbai, a city that is known for newcomers, suffers from major water shortages. We use many litres of water without thinking if we really need it. The amount of water we use is enough to quench the thirst of upto7 people. Slums turn to taps, but the water is often contaminated. This leads to diseases like cholera, typhoid and Hepatitis A. Let us take a minute to think, where do we really get our water from?? If the answer to this is tanker water, you should know that you are living in an area which suffers from water shortages. The tankers get the water from sources like lakes and freshwater rivers. The people who depend on the water and lakes may not even get any water. Villages depend on ground water but it dries up and cannot be used. We need to be able to use water efficiently .to do so, we must have desalination plane to use the sea water effectively. SAVE WATER, DON”T WASTE IT.
Akankshaa ,J.B Petit
Here is a beautiful speech for saving the environment and developing India!!!
Why do you think that India is so filthy??Ha...IS this because India is illiterate,yes maybe...why not??
Cant we try making India a better country.Cant we Tranform India.....cant we make the illiterate
people of India a literate country nd y dont we stop littering our motherland.Yes surely due
to this we say dat All other international countries are liliterate,clean nd Unfilthy..
DO tou think TB is at large?yessssssss because we spit all around but in USA
why do they charge for spitting????because that is a more developed country than ours
They Charge 20 US $ for spitting nd 5o US $ for littering.........
And yes i think that we can transform INDIA....
This is why CMCA took birth in India.....
CMCA-Making A Difference.....
Here Are Some Points For Saving The Environment:
Clean or replace air filters on your air conditioning unit at least once a month.
If you have central air conditioning, do not close vents in unused rooms.
Lower the thermostat on your water heater to 120.
Wrap your water heater in an insulated blanket.
Turn down or shut off your water heater when you will be away for extended periods.
Turn off unneeded lights even when leaving a room for a short time.
Set your refrigerator temperature at 36 to 38 and your freezer at 0 to 5 .
When using an oven, minimize door opening while it is in use; it reduces oven temperature by 25 to 30 every time you open the door.
Clean the lint filter in your dryer after every load so that it uses less energy.
Unplug seldom used appliances.
Use a microwave when- ever you can instead of a conventional oven or stove.
Wash clothes with warm or cold water instead of hot.
Reverse your indoor ceiling fans for summer and winter operations as recommended.
Turn off lights, computers and other appliances when not in use.
Purchase appliances and office equipment with the Energy Star Label; old refridgerators, for example, use up to 50 more electricity than newer models.
Only use electric appliances when you need them.
Use compact fluorescent light bulbs to save money and energy.
Keep your thermostat at 68 in winter and 78 in summer.
Keep your thermostat higher in summer and lower in winter when you are away
Insulate your home as best as you can.
Install weather stripping around all doors and windows.
Shut off electrical equipment in the evening when you leave work.
Plant trees to shade your home.
Shade outside air conditioning units by trees or other means.
Replace old windows with energy efficient ones.
Use cold water instead of warm or hot water when possible.
Connect your outdoor lights to a timer.
Buy green electricity - electricity produced by low - or even zero-pollution facilities (NC Greenpower for North Carolina - www.ncgreenpower.org). In your home-reduce toxicity.
Yash Jain, HFS
Diwali is a joyful festival. Everybody buys new clothes and bursts crackers to celebrate. That was me until I knew about pollution. Most people have been quite frank by saying that they have burst crackers but they have burst a considerably less amount. Sounds like you? Looks like you're on the way to becoming a tree-hugger. Lots of children know about pollution from fire crackers but sadly, few even try to make a difference. They justify themselves by saying "One person can't make a difference, only if many peopledo something there will be a change." But how do people start changing their habits? Change starts with one person, YOU. We, the members of CMCA hope that our Diwali rally educated people and that it has helped the environment in its own way. Now perhaps, I may sound like an environmentalist, but I'm not. I am just another citizen of India, trying to make a change. If I can try you can too. Give this idea a chance and you might surprise youself by helping the Earth.
Akanksha Ashok A, J B Petit
Mumbai, a city that is known for newcomers, suffers from major water shortages. We use many litres of water without thinking if we really need it. The amount of water we use is enough to quench the thirst of upto7 people. Slums turn to taps, but the water is often contaminated. This leads to diseases like cholera, typhoid and Hepatitis A. Let us take a minute to think, where do we really get our water from?? If the answer to this is tanker water, you should know that you are living in an area which suffers from water shortages. The tankers get the water from sources like lakes and freshwater rivers. The people who depend on the water and lakes may not even get any water. Villages depend on ground water but it dries up and cannot be used. We need to be able to use water efficiently .to do so, we must have desalination plane to use the sea water effectively. SAVE WATER, DON”T WASTE IT.
Akankshaa ,J.B Petit
Here is a beautiful speech for saving the environment and developing India!!!
Why do you think that India is so filthy??Ha...IS this because India is illiterate,yes maybe...why not??
Cant we try making India a better country.Cant we Tranform India.....cant we make the illiterate
people of India a literate country nd y dont we stop littering our motherland.Yes surely due
to this we say dat All other international countries are liliterate,clean nd Unfilthy..
DO tou think TB is at large?yessssssss because we spit all around but in USA
why do they charge for spitting????because that is a more developed country than ours
They Charge 20 US $ for spitting nd 5o US $ for littering.........
And yes i think that we can transform INDIA....
This is why CMCA took birth in India.....
CMCA-Making A Difference.....
Here Are Some Points For Saving The Environment:
Clean or replace air filters on your air conditioning unit at least once a month.
If you have central air conditioning, do not close vents in unused rooms.
Lower the thermostat on your water heater to 120.
Wrap your water heater in an insulated blanket.
Turn down or shut off your water heater when you will be away for extended periods.
Turn off unneeded lights even when leaving a room for a short time.
Set your refrigerator temperature at 36 to 38 and your freezer at 0 to 5 .
When using an oven, minimize door opening while it is in use; it reduces oven temperature by 25 to 30 every time you open the door.
Clean the lint filter in your dryer after every load so that it uses less energy.
Unplug seldom used appliances.
Use a microwave when- ever you can instead of a conventional oven or stove.
Wash clothes with warm or cold water instead of hot.
Reverse your indoor ceiling fans for summer and winter operations as recommended.
Turn off lights, computers and other appliances when not in use.
Purchase appliances and office equipment with the Energy Star Label; old refridgerators, for example, use up to 50 more electricity than newer models.
Only use electric appliances when you need them.
Use compact fluorescent light bulbs to save money and energy.
Keep your thermostat at 68 in winter and 78 in summer.
Keep your thermostat higher in summer and lower in winter when you are away
Insulate your home as best as you can.
Install weather stripping around all doors and windows.
Shut off electrical equipment in the evening when you leave work.
Plant trees to shade your home.
Shade outside air conditioning units by trees or other means.
Replace old windows with energy efficient ones.
Use cold water instead of warm or hot water when possible.
Connect your outdoor lights to a timer.
Buy green electricity - electricity produced by low - or even zero-pollution facilities (NC Greenpower for North Carolina - www.ncgreenpower.org). In your home-reduce toxicity.
Yash Jain, HFS
Diwali is a joyful festival. Everybody buys new clothes and bursts crackers to celebrate. That was me until I knew about pollution. Most people have been quite frank by saying that they have burst crackers but they have burst a considerably less amount. Sounds like you? Looks like you're on the way to becoming a tree-hugger. Lots of children know about pollution from fire crackers but sadly, few even try to make a difference. They justify themselves by saying "One person can't make a difference, only if many peopledo something there will be a change." But how do people start changing their habits? Change starts with one person, YOU. We, the members of CMCA hope that our Diwali rally educated people and that it has helped the environment in its own way. Now perhaps, I may sound like an environmentalist, but I'm not. I am just another citizen of India, trying to make a change. If I can try you can too. Give this idea a chance and you might surprise youself by helping the Earth.
Akanksha Ashok A, J B Petit
Global warming, a sizzling hot major issue that is sending a chill down everyone’s spine. Today the Global warming is a major issue that is leading Mother Earth, closer and closer to destruction. Deforestation, depletion of the ozone layer, soil erosion and what not are the deadly effects of global warming. We must do something, so that this nightmare may be finished forever.
Ø We must plant more trees and encourage backyard and window gardening.
Ø We must minimize the use of CFCs like air conditioners and aerosol cans.
Ø We must walk short distances or use public transport. We must also encourage car pools.
And the most important , we must make others aware so that they too can take some measure.But most of the people, just don’t care. Ignorance is not the only answer. Take a step ahead so that our our future generations can follow our footsteps. Make a difference, and bad India, infact the whole world to a new direction, where problems like global warming can be handled with ease. Treat your environment like your own Kith and Kin, and trust me, Global warming will be like a long last topic in the boring books of history. Come fight with CMCA against this life threatening heat. Say no to GLOBAL WARMING.
Pearl Majithia
VII-A
Jankidevi Public School
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