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MISSION 'RASHTRA SURAKSHA

Prepares & builds capacity amongst community to reduce risks from disasters and climate change by reaching to their 'Door Steps'

'REACH TO PEOPLE, TALK TO PEOPLE AND INVOLVE
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'School Safety'- Review of the Campaign launched in June 2000 to December 2007 Sharing Experiences and Good Practices.

By Colonel NM Verma



THE CONCEPT

SARITSA (Security Awareness and Readiness by
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Visual images show what post-global warming 'polar city' of future might look like.

To get ready for the full impact of global warming, we might, just might, need to ask every country in the world to take one year off from normal industrial life, say, the year 2015, and for one entire year, nobody can drive a car or truck or bus or taxi, no airplanes can fly, no oil powered ships
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We might, just might, maybe, need to build polar cities to house survivors of climate change in the future, say the year 2500. We might, just might, need to start thinking about them and planning them and even building them in the polar regions now, perhaps funded by the UN. This is a strange but
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Can anyone give refute the thesis of this Channel 4 programme 2100h Thursday 8th March that global warming is aminly due to changes in solar activity and the evidence does not support greenhouse gases as the cause.

Jesus said 'You are the temple of God'. Hence, it is every human's responsibility to maintain our Body & Mind in good shape. Towards achieving this, we have to maintain by doing some physical & mental exercises regularly and also we have to adopt some diet control by considering age. For which, it
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Do you want a challenge with a difference this summer? Why not join our Cut the Carbon march. We are looking for volunteers to walk some - or all! - of the way from Belfast to London.

To find out more and how you can apply, go to

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Coming along on Thursday 14 September? We need you! We're looking for bloggers and you could one of them. It's simple. Come along, enjoy the day, then logon to the Exchange on Pressureworks and file your thoughts.

For more details visit

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Duck tape [from a pound shop] is strong enough to form a drumskin which turns any large plastic container into a drum which takes heavy punishment. Stage one: stretch a cross of tape across the top opening, then fill it in. You may find you don't need to cover the whole opening

I think the new envelope is far too big......240 square centimetres! I hope I am wrong but I expect adverse criticism from folk during CAW.

Colchester has recently become a Fair Trade Town
A Streering group has been meeting every month since Nov 2004
Local media coverage was attracted and popular support raised
6 workplaces
8 faith groups
and 9 schools also achieved Fair trade status
23 Retail outlets
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Here in Tanzania electricity in community halls is a rarity. Normally due to restrictions or non-existance of electricity grids. Teaching people during the day is basically a no go situation. People are too busy making a living. The sun in Africa is strong, hot and free. A solar panel, charging a
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As you will see from the information at http://www.mng.org.uk/green_house/renewable_energy/csp.htm,
'concentrating solar power' has great potential as a new source of income for countries with hot
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Thank you for all your campaigning last year. We are keeping up the pressure on the UK government and we need your help more than ever.

For ideas of what you can do, see
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Our pre school worship group ( called Pray and Play) at Tonbridge Methodist church are donating our offerings received at our monthly services in 2006 to raise funds to train a midwife.
We are also holding a hot chocolate and muffin party and are inviting people to come along and to
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If anyone knows someone with the skills to build igloos, would Christian Aid find them/enable them to go to the earthquake area before the snows come in to help them build shelters using the snow that otherwise will kill them?

Christian Aid has come up with a bunch of ideas to help you campaign at uni... everthing from hosting a Fairtrade cafe to making an HIV movie for people's mobiles. You can see them on our campaigns website, Pressureworks - follow the link below!

At St Peter's Church, Oundle, the congregation focussed on Senegal for their harvest service. Learning about the unfair trade rules which have affected Senegalese farmers, and being challenged to cook Theiboudienne, Senegal's national dish (see link below), each person received an empty paper plate
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An idea which can be played inside and outside and can pick up passers by is the 1966 game 'Twister'.

To sharpen the game and give it TJ relevance I produced some little cards with the names of Quad members on one side (USA, EU, JAPAN, CANADA) and developing countries (e.g.: Zambia,
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MPH wanted messages on white bands for the G8- but if you've got some why not (re)use MPH barrier tape to make a seasonal reminder to send to the great and the (un)good as (non-paper) paper chains? They will be light and can be sent off in a box (suitably wrapped with MPH tape/TJ stickers &c.)to
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In Northamptonshire, we've decided to mark the final White Band Day of 2005 by wrapping all possible Christmas trees - public, church, school, home - in white bands on 10 December. Additionally, in church services, we're inviting congregations to hang up their white wristbands on a Christmas tree
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Rightly Christian Aid has highlighted the gross inequality resulting from the idea of Worldwide Free-trade. But if these campaigns are to grab the attention of the average citizen of a western democracy then they need to be wider in their scope.

Globalisation has created an unregulated
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A method of transferring sovereignty from parliament to the people of this country through democratic processes. The method the project uses is stunning. The aim of the project is evolve our political system in ways that will enable us to face the challenges we meet. The link takes you straight to
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to hold a question time in all of the towns around the world at the same time but not hidden away somewere in the middle of the town centre this would deffinatly get people to hear about it and it would also let people ask anythink that they did not know

Fiends,
I have great idea to share with YOU. I am working as Principal of a residential school in India. Being the world's largest democracy India is endowed with vast human resources and rich in mineral wealth. But curruption and injustice derail the sincere efforts by the upright
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Dave Pearce, an indefatigable WDM collaborator in Manchester, has paid for rolls of white parcel tape with Make Poverty History on them to be produced and also for rolls of plastic barrier tape- for use circling buildings, adorning stands, disposable pennants/streamers, making sashes, cummerbunds
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I am working as Principal of a school in India. I am more than convinced that World Peace and Universal Love can be accomplished if we teach our youngsters in the right earnest. I request all my friends and Christian Aid especially start some speciall schools around the world as trend setters for
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We organised a day of prayer earlier this year. Our hope was that people would take a day out of their lives to consider their priorities and lifestyles, a day to fast and pray.
5 of our life groups volunteered to prepare information and visual prompts on a variety of topics: homelessness,
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An idea which could be used and adapted for fund raising or for 'unfair games' for TJ/Jubilee Campaigning.

Last weekend Greater Manchester we set up a 'bungy stretch' at a stall. We had constructed a chain of ten old bicycle inner-tubes which we fastened to a tree and then challenged
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In Manchester TJM last year ran a petition to Pascal Lamy (see our website) and this year have another which we intend to use to get our foot in the door for an audience which we will then exploit with specific lobbying. We've come to the conclusion that whilst indiv. letters are best, or perhaps
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Christian Aid has teamed up with Justgiving.com for Christian Aid Week and beyond. By logging on to www.justgiving.com/caweekyou can set up your own sponsorship pages and get your friends and relatives to sponsor you online.
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This is a brief outline of an event that took place in Radcliffe, North Manchester on 9th March 2004. It will provide ideas and feedback that might inspire similar endeavours across the country.

The aim of the workshops was to provide practical advice and resources enabling teachers
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Often when I've been on stalls at fairs &c. I've been talking to people and had others vaguely looking at things who need 'hooking'. Sometimes one is talking to a parent and kids need occupying. To address this I've produced some multiple-choice quiz cards on topics of TJ and Fair Trade. (I'm
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