A chance to win an all-expense paid study trip to Germany from November 7-12, 2010. Thanks to Yatin Sethi for sharing this.
This is an invitation to all Indian students with a passion for the environment to participate in the Bayer Young Environmental Program 2010 and win a chance to represent India along with youth delegates from 18 other countries on an all – expense paid study trip to Germany from November 7-12, 2010
What is BYEEP?
The BYEEP (Bayer Young Environmental Envoy Program) is a global environment education program for the youth organized by Bayer and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with the aim of developing young environmental leaders and boosting the level of awareness among the youth.
We appreciate the fact that in order to conserve the habitat, co-operation and understanding of young students is imperative. Bayer has been sponsoring the project since 1996, and has since then played a major role in developing the program, which today attracts hundreds of students from across the nation.
BYEEP entails young people visiting Bayer headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany, to learn about sustainable development and various methods of environmental protection. Bayer in India has been participating in this program since 2002.
Bayer: Science For A Better Life
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. The company's products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. At the same time Bayer creates value through innovation, growth and high earning power. The Group is committed to the principles of sustainable development and to its role as a socially and ethically responsible corporate citizen. Economy, ecology and social responsibility are corporate policy objectives of equal rank. In fiscal 2009, Bayer employed 108,400 people and had sales of €31.2 billion. Capital expenditures amounted to €1.7 billion, R&D expenses to €2.7 billion. For more information, go to www.bayer.com.
Eligibility:
The program is open to all Indian students within the age of 18 – 24 years, holding a valid passport and actively involved in a current or completed environmental project.
Participation Details:
Further details on the criteria, joining procedures and application forms are available on the India section of www.bayeryoungenvoy.com/en or you can get in touch with me, my co-ordinates are given below.
The last date for submission of entries is August 15, 2010
We invite your college students to be a part of this program and participate in the contest.
Please do let me know of a suitable time when I can come and present on the Bayer Young Environmental Program for 2010. Alternately, we would request to diplay posters within your college with due permission from the concerned authorities. Kindly let me know if this is possible and send me the complete postal address of your college; contact details of the person concerned and number of A3 size posters required for diplay.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards
Liza Lobo.
Corporate Communications
Bayer Group in India
Bayer House, Central Avenue,
Hiranandani Gardens, Powai,
Mumbai 400 076, India
Phone: +91 22 2571 1234 / 1091
Fax: + 91 22 2570 5949
E-mail: liza.lobo.ll@bayer-ag.de
Website: www.bayer.co.in
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Leveraging Business for Social Change: Building the Field of Social Business | Changemakers
Ashoka’s Changemakers (www.changemakers.com) and Artemisia (www.artemisia-international.org) together have launched an online competition titled “Leveraging Business for Social Change - Building the Field of Social Business” in global search of model initiatives and ideas that help build the emerging field of social business and serve vulnerable and low-income communities by delivering the critical goods and services that they need to improve their lives and lift themselves from poverty. The field of social business is an emerging culture that harnesses new business techniques for building financially viable social ventures with the potential to create huge impact.
This competition is looking at how social businesses invent ways to apply technology and techniques so that a growing number of people, from vulnerable and low income communities, reap benefits in areas such as nutrition, housing, education, healthcare, insurance, energy, and small-scale agriculture.
NGOs, CBOs, Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, MFIs and any humanitarian initiatives that are mission-driven ventures as well as sustainable in their model can apply for this competition that offers 3 of its winners US$5000 as competition reward.
Deadline for submission of entries is June 9, 2010. For further information on the competition, its benefits and prizes, please visit http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/socialbusiness.
For queries, clarifications and assistance, please write to changemakers.competitions@gmail.com or call Indrani Sharma at +91 9911355522.
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HELP TO SAVE TREES
Hello fellow peoples who loves trees and all nature that surrounds us. I am there to request the help. Help to save some trees. And of course nature.
I am from Lithuania and for decades I was working as a wood guard ( donno if this correct English word ). I have walked around trees, I have seen how they grow. I made lot’s planting work wit peeps that wanted to help and I saw how the trees grow up from little seed to nice trees. I have seen lot’s of rabbits some wolfs and deers enjoying them as much as I. And at my middle age they started to cut off trees. Not much but they started.
Now it is growing industry and trees are cut everywhere. Just because they have money to bribe peeps who can let to do that. And persons who lived grow up trees can’t do anything about that. That’s why I am starting to SCREEM for help in all the world.
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Other NGO News
NGO objects to road widening project
MYSORE: The recent road widening projects executed by the civic bodies in the city could prove costly for the forest officials.
Even as there is anger among the public for loss of green cover, the city-based NGO Jaagruthi has taken objection to the road widening projects pointing out that it is stifling growth of trees. "We have sent a legal notice to the conservator of forests, Mysore circle," NGO convener S Arunkumar said on Thursday.
He asked the officials to initiate action to save the roadside trees in the city within 15 days. "We will file a criminal complaint before the district magistrate against the official under Section 133 of the CrPC," he told reporters.
The Delhi high court has stated road projects must factor in growth of trees. It has also directed that six-feet circumference around the tree has to be left open, but the recent road widening projects have overlooked the needs of the trees and Mysore is facing a danger of losing its sheen, he explained.
A senior forest official, who retired recently, told TOI the trees require aeration for their growth and sustenance. Otherwise, their life span will be cut short at least by 30 per cent.
This comes days after some 40 trees were axed on the KRS Road in the city for development works even as the demands to axe roadside trees on Narasimharaja Boulevard (Lalitha Mahal road) are gaining ground again.
Arunkumar also took objection to the tree axing on KRS Road saying the decision was one-sided. It is against the basis of the Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act, 1976, he stated seeking the conservator of forests to remove the concrete/asphalt around the tree on the roads widened recently including Vani Vilas road, Valmiki road, Kantharak Urs road, New Kantharaj Urs road.
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Voice against child labour
MYSORE: Ahead of the Anti-Child Labour Day, the labour department officials raided some commercial establishments, but they didn't find any child labourers.
But their claim was contested by the Campaign Against Child Labour- Karnataka (CACL-K), an NGO. The NGO members told the deputy commissioner that they are witness to child labourers employed at the establishments raided by officials.
District labor officer Govindappa B told The Times of India: "We raided four hotels at Chamarajapuram, Agrahara and Kuvempunagar. But no child labourer was there." Those working there are Manju, 19, Lokesh, 15, and Balaraju, 17. However, CACL-K district convener K Dhananjaya claimed the boys are all below 14 years.
Meanwhile, the CACL- K joined hands with the Rural Literacy and Health Programme (RLHP) in a protest against the child labour. Some 60 children protested at the DC office. They submitted a memorandum demanding the government to eradicate child labour and ensure free food and education to children as per the Right to Education Act. They also sought effective measures to implement Child Labor Eradication Act, 1986 and Child Justice Act, 2000.
Dhananjaya, working for 20 years on child rights issues, said there are over 1,452 child labourers in Mysore according to a survey. Since the child related issues are not isolated, there is a need for better coordination between education, labour, child and women welfare departments for a collective strategic plan, he said.
source from:ngopost.org
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