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Child's right to clean environment in focus

Staff Reporter

Association of children's goups share plans and pleas

CHENNAI: Members of the Arunodhaya Children's Sangam shared their plans and pleas for a cleaner environment at the Press Club here on Thursday.

The Sangam is an association of 56 groups of children across the city, involved with Arunodhaya's initiatives, getting together to voice their rights. Their requests to the Government include checking pollution, proper drainage systems for sewage and rainwater, disposal of garbage and removal of encroachments.

Waste segregation

Their requests to the public include avoiding encroachments and ensuring the success of schemes such as segregation of waste. These requests had been highlighted through a human chain and a conference earlier this month.

The theme of safe environment as the right of children was also made the subject of a short documentary starring the children. Indiscriminate dumping of garbage, even near schools, pollution and the ill effects residents suffered as a result in areas such as Korukkupet, Tondiarpet, Thiruvottriyur and Ennore were condemned.

Polluting industries

Suresh, a teen who is president of the Sangam, spoke about the importance of a clean environment to bring up healthy young people. Jayashree from Tiruvottriyur spoke of fish dying near her home due to polluting industries.

The Arunodhaya Centre for Street and Working Children found great difficulty in keeping former child labourers in mainstream schools until they realised that peers were best suited to encourage children to stay on, said executive director, Virgil D' Sami.

The groups that formed in transit schools emphasised the importance of child rights through previous conferences with the themes of participation in public life and mandatory safe education.

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