Empowering women

Workshops to provide environmental

education and skills training for
sustainable livelihood development
among women.














Green Environmental Monitors
(GEMS) campaign

GEMS aims to help The Climate
Generation grow to be responsible
environmental citizens. Building on the
success of the pilot project in Kolkata, EDN
will widen the program to other cities in
India, and students in Asia as well.
























Impact: Forming of a wide base of
educated and responsible youth.


Youth form 35 per cent of Indias population.

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Major cities in India are over built, with
miniscule green spaces. To help cities go
green, EDN will organize seminars and
hands-on-training programs so that
citizens learn how to grow plants in even
not- thought-of-before spaces.

EDN will also work with Municipal
Corporation officials to ensure that
existing public parks and gardens are
maintainedY








Impact: Increase Earths green cover
Planting trees
EDN partnered with Rotary
International for Green Magic a
program that aims to plant 10 million
trees in India
EDN now seeks collaborations for
additional programsY







Educating local self-government leaders









Workshops are heId for women
to become agents of change by
learning how to protect and
increase natural resources, and
understand the need to implement
campaigns to move from fossil
fuels to cleaner energies.

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Impact: By law 33-50 per cent of elected seats are reserved for women. The
term of office is 5 years. Some twenty million village women are already
part of decision-making processess. Programs implemented are thus likely to
positively impact sustainable development.
Environmental Curriculum Development
Environmental science has been discontinued as a separate subject taught
in schoolsY

To bridge the gap in what is really essential knowledge for students, EDN
will hold workshops for teachers who teach Literature, History, Geography,
Political Science, Art and Economics with the aim to showcase ways to
relate their subject to knowledge about environmental issuesY


Impact: Indias student population focuses on environmental issuesY
In conjunction with a retail chain, and a speciality chef, S organizeRprograms
in different cities of India. S KStR events where organic food is served, and there
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The proposal has been pilot-tested and refined for replicationY

Impact: greater demand for organic 322R will translate into healthier choices, and
more people producing organic 322R will reduce prices so that the opportunity to
choose organic kSYis available to many others
Go Organic campaign
Bags for Earth

Seamstresses convert old clothes on the
spot into cloth bagsY

Events planned for large malls, housing
complexes, and educational institutionsY







Impact: Helps reinforce recycling and
provides an alternative to plastic bagsY

Investing for a cleaner environment anywhere is
investing to safeguard a common heritage.
There are no borders that contain
Earths air and water.

If she can try in her own little way
Why cant we?
Contact Information
Karuna A. Singh
e-mail: singh@earthday.net
9831356476

Neela Majumdar
e-mail: majumdar@earthday.net
9830014934

Debapriya Dutt
e-mail:dutt@earthday.net
9830725838