{"id":2165,"date":"2017-06-08T02:42:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T02:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.org\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2017-06-08T03:38:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T03:38:24","slug":"world-environment-week-concluded-by-gifting-solar-cookers-for-smoke-free-life-to-women-at-jimmy-mcgilligan-centre-for-sustainable-development-indore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"World Environment Week concluded by Gifting \u201cSolar Cookers for  Smoke-free life to Women\u201d at  Jimmy McGilligan Centre For Sustainable Development, Indore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/worldenvironmentday?source=feed_text\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">WorldEnvironmentDay<\/span><\/span><\/a> <span class=\"_5afx\"><a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/iamwithnature?source=feed_text\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">IAmWithNature<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">World Environment Week<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">June 6, 2017,\u00a0 \u201cA week with Nature (June1-6,2017) based on\u00a0 UNEP theme for World Environment Day,concluded at Jimmy McGilligan Centre For Sustainable Development with its Chief Guest the \u00a0Environmental Scientist and Researcher\u00a0 Activist , Dr.Vandana Shiva handing over 5 parabolic solar cookers to 5 woman needy, deserving landless women who have been cooking on firewood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src='https:\/\/goo.gl\/GgBwxB' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fbom1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/18921699_1556442184389717_7516054735377269085_n.jpg?oh=f283e2386286963996191da1f6203406&amp;oe=59DE3DE0\" alt=\"Image may contain: 5 people, people smiling, outdoor and nature\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These five(in photo with their heads covered) Shaitan Bai 50 years old widow from , Bhil working from village Sunere Kuan Manpur district Indore needs\u00a0 eye operation,\u00a0 Chanda Bai Dhakad 55 years old widow from Sanwadiya ,\u00a0 suffering with multiple health problems and low vision,\u00a0 Nahju \u00a0Bai Rawat 35 years old mother of 4 daughters ,Bina Bai Janglia 38,Raju Bai all tribal in Sanawadiya. Each of them contributed 10 percent to\u00a0 towards\u00a0 Prince Cookers, costing Rs10,000 .Solar Cooker International in Sacramento has donated 90 % with the help their donor.\u00a0 Janak Palta McGilligan quoted her husband , late\u00a0 Jimmy McGilligan OBE always\u00a0 said\u201d Cooking in smoky kitchens is a Violence against women and she also \u00a0ensures that\u00a0\u00a0 Solar Cookers are given to users after training them how to use and maintain. These women \u00a0users \u00a0were trained here \u00a0by trainers of the Centre Nanda and Rajendra Chouhan on June,5, 2017 at the Centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src='https:\/\/goo.gl\/GgBwxB' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fbom1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/18952586_1556446784389257_8174526156861436700_n.jpg?oh=364a3962928f4302be9f0e69f676116b&amp;oe=59DFD59B\" alt=\"Image may contain: 4 people, people smiling, people standing\" width=\"706\" height=\"554\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adressing\u00a0 the Validictory gathering , Dr Vandana Shiva said \u201c\u00a0 Ever-increasing use of poisonous\u00a0 chemicals and fertilizers in soil, conspiracy to end Indian indigenous diversity of food starting with\u00a0 seeds, oils and Cotton\u00a0 is resulting in\u00a0 larger population being\u00a0 unhealthy and in the grip of Cancer Diabetes, hypertension, heart problems .Threat to\u00a0 \u00a0environment is threat\u00a0 to human life\u00a0 .\u00a0\u00a0 Only way is to make seed banks, need \u00a0to return to organic food patterns by doing organic\u00a0 farming is the way forward to\u00a0 improve nutritional value through concern\u00a0 Food as Health.Farmers suicides are also result of debt and Government policies.\u00a0 Use of Solar Cooking and Food processing technologies will add value to increase shelf life of perishable products will \u00a0make it sustainable. She also warned over the threat to Indore\u2019s world famous traditional food Vendors at Sarafa .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0Mrs Smita Bhardwaj<\/strong>\u00a0 IAS ,Managing Director \u00a0of MP Financial Corporation presided over and appreciated the efforts of Jimmy McGilligan Centre for organizing a week long indepth learning about\u00a0 serious problems and\u00a0 Environmental Issues faced globally\u00a0 and now \u00a0closing it with\u00a0 a solution locally by empowering rural and tribal women with Solar Cookers is\u00a0 putting in action aligned with the prayer chanted by its director Janak Palta McGilligan\u00a0 highlighting \u201c Present World\u00a0 Needs demand\u00a0 deeds not the\u00a0 words . \u201d\u00a0 Anurag Shukla an organic farmer shared the brief report of the past \u00a06 days activities and participatory talks . \u00a0Main activities\u00a0 include viewing, feeling and appreciating\u00a0 various shades and forms of Nature e.g Raining. Sunrise, Sunset, bird watching by participants doing \u00a0drawing, painting , reciting \u00a0poetry, Nature Walk,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src='https:\/\/goo.gl\/GgBwxB' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fbom1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/18881717_1554456854588250_6232792917628240508_n.jpg?oh=522dc5353cae299b1a032a37d978704e&amp;oe=59AA4804\" alt=\"Image may contain: 14 people, people smiling, people standing and outdoor\" width=\"740\" height=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Music, Poetry and Inspiring prayers relating to Nature all in local language by Sangini Breast Cancer Survivors Group and Exhibition on Autibiography of Trees by Rajesh Sharma.Different subjects covered in sessions conducted by eminent and Role Models <strong>\u00a0Dilip Chinchalkar, Dev Kumar Vasudevan, Ashish Dubey, Shubha Vaidya,Anuradha Dubey, Rashmi Joshi, Chinmay Mishra, Anurag Shukla,Rajendra Singh,\u00a0 Dinesh Kothari , <script src='https:\/\/goo.gl\/GgBwxB' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/ohindore.com\">Sameer Sharma<\/a> and Green Heroes of Indore Mr Arun Dike, Ambrish Kela and \u00a0Daniel from PTC and \u00a0Janak Palta McGilligan<\/strong> .Subjects covered were soilseeds and food, water and rivers ,treeplantation and Heritage ,Indigenous foor, Sustainable life style, purpose of life with the help of PPTs and Documentries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src='https:\/\/goo.gl\/GgBwxB' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fbom1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t31.0-8\/18891594_1554457164588219_8817804992651248575_o.jpg?oh=7dc60e65ed022625bb081b2c10897e9d&amp;oe=59A653CA\" alt=\"Image may contain: 10 people, people smiling, people standing and outdoor\" width=\"463\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anurag Shukla also shared the pledges and\u00a0 action plans by the participants will go for \u00a0dropping seed balls on neighboring hilltops ,participating in hundreds of thousands Tree plantation on <strong>Dev Guradia Mountain\u00a0<\/strong> and in Indore on July 2, 2017 and \u00a0to adopt waste free life style, going for Organic food and use of renewable sources energy. All the participants brought their home made food\u00a0 made indigenous food to shared and generated no\u00a0 waste.Vote of thanks was given to all those about 500 participants\u00a0 of all ages during A week with Nature \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#WorldEnvironmentDay #IAmWithNature\u00a0 World Environment Week June 6, 2017,\u00a0 \u201cA week with Nature (June1-6,2017) based on\u00a0 UNEP theme for World Environment Day,concluded at Jimmy McGilligan Centre For Sustainable Development with its Chief Guest the \u00a0Environmental Scientist and Researcher\u00a0 Activist , Dr.Vandana Shiva handing over 5 parabolic solar cookers to 5 woman needy, deserving landless women who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-post","category-press-coverage","category-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}