Support "Our Girls: Our Pride" initiative by Vedanta Group and NDTV

  

Vedanta Group and NDTV have joined hands to promote Girl Child in India through campaign "Our Girls: Our Pride".  The campaign has been launched under Vedanta's "Khushi" awareness campaign that is already promoting care for the underprivileged children, their health, nutrition and education.  

Ms. Priyanka Chopra has been named the Brand Ambassador of the campaign "Our Girl: Our Pride”.  The campaign launched on 19th August 2013 in New Delhi, will address key issues like nutrition, education, health and infanticide.  The focus of the campaign will be to educate people at large, bring awareness, bring policy changes and sensitize people towards girl child and build a respect for the gender.

Looking at India, the country houses the maximum number of children in the world but it is also true that around 50% of children are suffering from malnutrition and the number of girls is large. The ratio of females per 1000 mails has been continuously decreasing since last more than 30 years.  There is a conscious need to not only protect the girl child but also bring in dedicated efforts towards their education, nutrition, health and overall development.

The three partners in this campaign are unique in their own fields.

Priyanka Chopra, who has been named as Brand Ambassador for this campaign, has been UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador for India, Priyanka has been actively involved in various causes related to the girl child for many years.  She has also personally supported this cause through the ‘Priyanka Chopra Foundation for Health and Education’, which works towards providing support to unprivileged girls across the country in the areas Education and Health.

Vedanta has been pioneering the child welfare campaign in India with a mission to make India a child malnourished free nation.  In its effort, since 2008 Vedanta has been associated with government to take care of about 14,000 Anganwadis (child care centres), benefiting more than 500,000 deprived children.  The company has also constructed 8 Hi-tech Mid Day Meal Kitchens that provide hot nutritious meal to over 250,000 rural students studying in government schools.  Vedanta has adopted many rural schools towards bringing quality of education and strengthening infrastructure. 

NDTV has always played an instrumental role in creating awareness about various issues existing in the country through diverse, path breaking initiatives such as Save Our Tigers, Support My School, Marks for Sports and the Greenathon amongst others. 

The campaign launch was marked with the presence of Campaign Ambassador - Priyanka Chopra, Dr. Prannoy Roy - Co-chairperson NDTV and Mr. Anil Agarwal - Chairman Vedanta Group, Dr. Girija Vyas - Minister for Urban Poverty Alleviation, Dr. A L Sharada - Programme Director, Population First, Ms. Deepak Kalra, Chairperson for Child Rights Protection Committee in Rajasthan and many NGOs and other dignitaries.

Hon’ble Minister for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath addressed the gathering via a live-link and said, “We should respect women in our society because both men and women are equal partners to take out our society forward. According to our Constitution, we have equal rights, so we enjoy 

The campaign launch was marked with the presence of Campaign Ambassador - Priyanka Chopra, Dr. Prannoy Roy - Co-chairperson NDTV and Mr. Anil Agarwal - Chairman Vedanta Group, Dr. Girija Vyas - Minister for Urban Poverty Alleviation, Dr A L Sharada - Programme Director, Population First, Ms. Deepak Kalra, Chairperson for Child Rights Protection Committee in Rajasthan and many NGOs and other dignitaries.

Hon’ble Minister for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirathaddressed the gathering via a live-link and said, “We should respect women in our society because both men and women are equal partners to take out our society forward. According to our Constitution, we have equal rights, so we enjoy 

On this occasion, Mr. Anil Agarwal, Chairman, Vedanta Group, said "Vedanta is committed to partner with all stakeholders, especially community, for a holistic development of India.  What we need today is a movement on a war-footing to give our children what is rightfully theirs — a childhood that is not deprived of health, nutrition and education. We all must join hands — individuals, civil society, corporates, media fraternity and the government. We are quite delighted to associate with NDTV and Ms. Priyanka Chopra for taking the "Our Girls Our Pride" campaign forward."

Addressing the audience, Dr. Prannoy Roy, Chairperson, NDTV, said “Perhaps the single most important change we can bring to our country is to invest in our girl children - to focus on their rights and demand their equality in society. Ensuring that every girl child in India achieves her full potential will transform India in a way that no other revolution can. This campaign is a small step in that direction - to raise awareness and to seek concrete steps towards a better India for the girl child.”

‘NDTV-Vedanta - Our Girls : Our Pride’ is yet another attempt to make a noteworthy difference in our world.  Apart from sensitizing the masses, the campaign also aims to raise funds to make a positive impact in the lives of as many girls as possible.

Source: http://khushi-creatinghappiness.blogspot.com

Supporting World Environment Day - Say all it with Telecards

World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 and is celebrated each year on June 5. This day is one of the main ways the United Nations helps raise global awareness of environmental issues and encourages attention and action.

The theme for this year’s (2013) World Environment Day celebrations is Think.Eat.Save. Think.Eat.Save is an anti-food waste and food loss campaign that encourages you to reduce your foot watage. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), every year 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted. This is equivalent to the same amount produced in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, 1 in every 7 people in the world go to bed hungry and more than 20,000 children under the age of 5 die daily from hunger. Given this enormous imbalance in lifestyles and the resultant devastating effects on the environment, this year’s theme – Think.Eat.Save – encourages you to become more aware of the environmental impact of the food choices you make and empowers you to make informed decisions.

World Environment Day is celebrated around the world in many ways, including street rallies, bicycle parades, green concerts, essay and poster competitions in schools, tree planting, recycling efforts, clean-up campaigns and much more.

Since it’s everybody’s responsibility to act for a better Environment, I have taken a small step towards spreading the spirit of World Environment Day, by posting the World wide Telephone Cards, with Nature, Wild Life and other related pictures. Now my post became successful as you are viewing it and started thinking of your role on “ Environment Protection”

             

Craft Ideas by Liji - Part 2

Glass Painting

Glass Paining made with Water Based Glass Colours and Glitters for decorating Ornaments.  Drawing painted inside the surface of transparent glass, using oil and hard resin or with water color and gum on glass sheets. Reverse Glass Painting method is used for the above painting which is a type of glass painting in which engravings are put down on the back of the glass, and painted from the reverse.  

Paper Craft

Paper Lady made with different colours of thick paper systematically arranged in different shapes to get embossed impression on an hard paper surface.  Above paper craft is pasted on a bamboo sheet to use as a wall hanging. 

Beads work

Beads can used to make various types of crafts item.  Above is the photograph of Pots made by bead of different colours and shapes.  Pot size will vary according to the number and sizes of beads.  Beads also can be used for making Hand Bags, Chains, Bracelet and other various shapes which will be posted and updated as per availability and project completion.

Craft Ideas by Liji

Fabric Painting

Cloth Painting made with Plain white cloth, embossing Painting and Glitters for ornaments and shells for decorating...  Background shaded with Coffee Powder.

Coffee Painting

Portrait of Garuda made only using Coffee Powder.  Coffee filled and shaded on the canvas board

Star Mat with Beads

Mat made with Glass beads in the shape of Star.  This can be arranged in various shapes like oval, round, square etc.  

Paper Flower

Paper flower made with used papers, rolled in a cone shape and pasted together on round shape.  It can be used as a good way for recycling the used papers in creative art or shapes.