Saturday, November 12, 2011

Children Parliament

- Palmyrah Community Children Program -

We are constantly focussing on children parliament program for palmyra toddy tappers’ community children.  The children, who are entrusted with portfolios with education, environment, and health & sanitation, are seriously taking their assignments and doing amazing work in the localities.  Amidst the palmyrah toddy tapping hamlets, these children are encouraging the enrolment of dropout children to schools, thereby helping us in our mission of eradicating child labor, which is more prevalent in this community.


One group of children are following the environmental impact of our project.  They are very much delighted to do this work like monitoring the increased number of birds in the surroundings of palm forest and also change the mindset of the people of the community to go for solar lanterns to use during the season in the thatched huts in the middle of forest instead of risky and polluting kerosene lamps.  Hence now it is time for us to generate funds for the distribution of solar lanterns to the community before the starting of next season.



In some areas, plastic garbage are found along on the way to palm forest.  These children are motivated to clean and have green surrounding by planting palm seedlings.

We have decided to celebrate our Christmas and invest the whole of Christmas holidays along with the palmyrah toddy tappers, particularly with the children.  The important agenda is not only to conduct awareness program on their surroundings and environment, but also to take them to nearby eco-tourist spots like Manappaadu, a natural beach.  This beautiful place has its own heritage for palm crafts where women from fisherfolk community as well as palmyrah toddy tapping community are trained to make handicrafts from palmyrah leaves. We also planned to deepen the existing ponds in that area with the help of youth and children.  Apart from our members, whoever is interested to join in this venture can enrol their names by e-mailing us at TrustBlaze@gmail.com. This is an open invitation to take part in this noble mission.

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