www.parisar.org

Parisar is executing a project that aims to build awareness about the role, relevance and importance of cycling as a means of transport among different classes of citizens. As part of this, it has created a kit to build awareness among school going children and has used this kit to reach out to children in two schools. It has also created a plan for reaching out to corporators (elected councillors) of the PMC and will be executing this plan soon. These activities are being undertaken as part of a project funded by I-CE.

Sidhant Pai, a class XII student of Delhi Public School in Pune has published an article in Sakal Young Buzz, a publication for the young brought out by the Pune-based Sakal publishing group. Sidhant wrote this article while he was an intern at CEE in Pune. In his article, Sidhant proposes different activities that children can undertake in their daily lives to contribute to the cause of sustainable transportation, such as reclaiming play areas for themselves from vehicles and promoting a "walking school bus". We are, of course, glad that Parisar and its activities are also referred in Sidhant's article!

Read Sidhant's article in full at: http://www.kidsrgreen.org/sakal/index.htm

Every September 22, people from around the world get together in the streets, intersections and neighbourhoods to remind the world that we don't have to accept an automobile-dominated society and the problems it brings with it and instead reclaim the streets for people. This September, Pune had also planned to celebrate Vehicle Free Day 2009 by organizing various events on and around 22^nd September. However, due to some unforeseen reasons some of these events have had to be cancelled or postponed.