ICYO

YOUTH INFORMATION

                           No: 2008/17

(E-Newsletter from network of youth organizations in India)

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ICYO - Platform of 356 Youth Organizations in India.       

ICYO - India’s largest network of urban and rural youth.

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Save Ganga &  Save  Himalayas  March

to mark the 78^th Anniversary of

Gandhji’s Dandi March

 

National Women’s Organization with others will be organizing Save Ganga &  Save  Himalayas  March  to celebrate the 78^th Anniversary of Gandhji’s Dandi March on March 12, 2008 in New Delhi.

 

It is intended to create mass awareness and put moral pressure on our government to take time-bound decisive steps to completely and permanently save the Ganga symbolizing all rivers and water bodies, and the Giriraj Himalaya, symbolizing all mountains forests and wildlife.

                                                                        

The March will commence with prayers near our beloved Bapuji’s Samadhi at 8:30 a.m on 12^th March 2008 and will conclude with the formal presentation of Ten Demands to Save the Ganga and the Himalayas to Hon’ble Rashatrapatiji, Hon’ble Prime Minister. It will be an absolutely peaceful Gandhian non-violent March.

 

The organizers requested to all like-minded noble persons must come under one umbrella to create the mass awareness necessary to put moral pressure on our government to take time-bound decisive steps to completely and permanently save the Ganga symbolizing all rivers and water bodies, and the Giriraj Himalayas, symbolizing all mountains forests and wildlife, which would surely be a major step in the direction to prevent  the impending catastrophic global ecological crises.

 

The Veteran Gandhian Activist Shri Anna Hazare, Swami Nikhilananda, Head of Chinmaya Mission,Delhi, Veteran parliamentarians Dr Najma Heptulla, Smt. Nirmala Deshpande,  Shri Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh along with many other eminent persons will lead the March on 12 March 2008.

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Let  us celebrate 12^th March as

THE SATYAGRAHA DAY FOR SAVING OUR MOTHER EARTH,
THE ONLY PLANET KNOWN TO HAVE LIFE SUSTAING ECOSYSTEMS

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More information may be obtain from Smt  Rama Rauta, President, National Women’s Organization, Pune.  Phone: 020-64730196 Email: ramarauta@...
or log on www.Savegangamovement.org  

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Indian Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO) is a registered non-profit, non-governmental network organization, committed in developing areas of mutual cooperation and understanding among different youth voluntary agencies, youth groups, clubs and individuals working in the field of youth welfare in India. 

ICYO functions as an umbrella organization of youth NGOs in India. It's family consists of
over 356 organizations spread in 122 districts of 22 states from different corners of India.

Our goal:
To improve and extend the youth work and services through Youth Organizations;
To enhance and demonstrate youth work in the society;
To promote effective youth programmmes;
To organize network of civil society organizations working towards the development of youth work;
To organize seminars, conferences, workshops, trainings;
To maintain international relation with organizations promoting young people in their programmes and activities

Affiliation: 

Consultative (Roster) Status with ECOSOC, United Nations;
Consultative Status with Commission on Sustainable Development;
Full Member of World Assembly of Youth (WAY); Asian Youth Council (AYC);
Youth for Habitat International Network (YFHIN); CRIN, South Asia Youth
Environment Network (SAYEN), Affiliate group of ECPAT International, Thailand;
ATSECE-DELHI, Indian Partner of AIDS Care Watch Campaign;
Steering Committee member of World Bank's YDP Network;
Working relation with Indian Association of Parliamentarians (IAPPD);
International Medical Parliamentarians Organizations (IMPO);
Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD);
World Youth Foundation, Malaysia.