childrens movement for civic awareness

“Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.”                                                                     - Gillian Anderson, Actress and Philanthropist In the past couple of years, Bangalore has seen various individuals and groups stepping up to further a cause that…

Did you know that:* Over 300 million Indian citizens have no access to electricity?* Over one third of India's rural population lack electricity as do 6% of the urban population* We produce only 25% fuel of our total requirementThis is alarming. We complain when there is no power for even 1 or 2 hours - imagine the plight of villages which lack electricity.On 16th January, the Children's Movement for Civic Awareness (CMCA) members of the United Dudes civic club of Delhi Public School, Bangalore South, conducted the "One Watt Project - Let's Save a Billion Watts" campaign to urge their…

Traffic Warden talks about road safety at Sherwood High School (pic: CMCA)Nearly 130 students from classes 2 to 7 in the age group of 7 years to 12 years of Sherwood High School on Bannerghatta road along with members of the civic club of the Children's Movement for Civic Awareness (CMCA) celebrated the Safety Awareness Walk and Traffic Police Day on 7th January, 2013. Held between 9 and 11 am, the walk started with an inspiring and educative talk by P. R. Rao, Deputy Chief of the Traffic Warden organisation about the importance of road safety. Inspector Diwakar (Traffic) of…

Thousands of children from the Children's Movement for Civic Awareness (CMCA), will be thanking traffic cops across the city this month. Flagging off the 8th Traffic Police Day thanksgiving in a ceremony at the Traffic Police Park on St. Marks Road on 12th January, children from private and government schools associated with CMCA presented cards, flowers, sweets and messages to traffic police personnel. The children also recited poems thanking the traffic police and interacted with constables, who enjoyed the occasion. The children also cheered and clapped for the traffic police. Children thank traffic police personnel on Traffic Police Day (pic:…

We look at them, we dont care a damn. We drive past them, we dont wait for them to cross; We pay them, but we dont treat them equally.This is the pourakarmikas Working for us everyday, Regardless of their health, nor the weather that day.They clean our surroundings, When they don’t clean theirs.To see them smiling, a rare occasion To make them smile, even more a rarity But the cost, nothing at all Doing this, makes a world of a difference...                                                    Raunak Dembla                                                    St. Joseph's Indian High School, Gopalkrishna, Engineer-in-Chief, BBMP, today flagged off the week-long ‘Pourakarmika Thank…