Chennai Coastal Cleanup, June 16th

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Chennai Coastal Cleanup - Jun 16

The Hindu is our event partner in this years Coastal Cleanup. Casa Grande (title sponsor) will  sponsor the entire event including an extensive ad campaign through The Hindu over the next 2 weeks to spread maximum awareness on our Coastal Cleanup to the general public:




6000+ volunteers have signed up till now including 90 companies/NGOs/schools:

 Give Smiles
 IFMR college
Abacus Montessori
ABCO Advisor Services
AECOM
AFS
Apollo Tires
Bhumi
Bilimoria & Associate
Celebration Of Life
CGI
Chennai Food Guide
CII Young Indians
CMA CGM SSC
Cognizant
CSC
CSS Corp
Ctrl-Z
DELL
Dhanvin Properties
Dover
eBay/PayPal
EFI
Emerson
Ernst @ Young
EVP World
EVWR India
Fenner
GET Foundation
GLD Movement
Global Analytics
Gnana Deepam Trust
Group of friends
HCL
HP
IBM
Innowave Healthcare
ISGN
Kidzee
KLA-Tencor
Kotturpuram corporation school
L&T
Lister Metropolis
M.Ct.M.C.C. Intl School
Mahindra/Sathyam
Mindree
Mphasis
MSi Kenny
MTS
Mymaster 
Neeyamo Enterprise Solutions
NOKIA
People for Cattle India
Pranic Healing Home
QuadrantFour
Raindropss
Rajesthan Youth Association
Ramco Systems
Rotaract 
ROTARACT CLUB OF  RAJALAKSHMI ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Royal Bank of Scotland
Saint Gobain Research
Sathyabama
Satyam Venture Engineering Services
Sevai Karangal
Slum Soccer
SPAAAK 
Sunshine academy
Symrise
TCS
Techdew
"Temple Advenutres & AASAI
Chennai Dive Club
Coastal Security Group, Tamilnadu Police"
Thales
Tringapps
V-Trust
VA Tech Wabag
Vernalis Systems
Wabco
WIPRO
YMCA
Youth for Seva
Caterpillar 
PSG Alumni Chapter
Sei Maname
Karomi Technology
5th Pillar
20 friends
80 students. To confirm Saturday
SSN NSS
Triway
Ashok Leyland
KAMACHI TMT
UST
IIT Madras
Karomi Technologies
Real Image Media Technologies Pvt Ltd



SUMMARY ========= Mission - Send a strong message of environmental awareness to our society to preserve our natural inheritances in and around our polluted metros How - Clean up 15 km of Chennai beaches from Marina till Injambakkam with thousands of volunteers When - Sunday, Jun 16, 2013, 6-9am Who - both individual volunteers as external groups (companies, schools, colleges, non-profit groups, ..) are welcome to participate
Last year 54 groups and a total of 2369 volunteers joined CCC/3 including 6 colleges, 15 companies, 11 CTC groups, 3 non-profit groups, 4 orphanages, 3 schools & 12 fishermen villages. Names included HP, CSC, Greenpeace, NOKIA, Cognizant, HCL, Anna University, Loyola College, Hindustan College of arts & sciences, Dover, Kidzee, Karapakkam High school, Mphasis, Hindustan College of Social Work Dep, YRC of SSN College of Engineering, SCVE Alumini, MindTree, VSL, Momentive, ASF, KLA Tencor, DG Vaishnav, ECO Group, Sunshine Academy, CADD Centre.

Last year's Coastal Cleanup also came in the Limca Book of Records -



HISTORY ======== Last year's cleanup in photos: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3056608696870.146115.1312929832&type=1 Last years' statistics: http://www.chennaitrekkers.org/2012/02/chennai-coastal-cleaup3-feb-5-post.html http://www.chennaitrekkers.org/2012/02/chennai-coastal-cleanup-feb-5-week-3.html

Overview of CTC past's environmental awareness drives - https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_o7QtZJaW3qZGY1ZGM1MDUtMWMwOC00NzkxLTljZGItNWIyOThmZDk3YTU2&hl=en Info, news, statistics on 5 earlier cleanup drives: Save Tada And Chennai Coastal Cleanup: http://www.chennaitrekkers.org/p/highlights.html
ACTION PLAN =========== 5am - 1000+ volunteers join at 11 assembly points across the city. Participants from other cities are most welcome to support this epic endeavor. (see below) 5-6am - Volunteers will be grouped in 13 Garbage Busting teams and move to 13 designated beach zones between Marina to Injambakkam lead by CTC organizers. 6am - Upon arrival at the beaches, distribute garbage bags, gloves and strategise about how the teams will work together to overcome this eco-challenge. 6-9am - Each of the teams will target a 1 km zone for cleanup. This challenge will be accomplished successfully even before the sun rises high above our heads. 9am - After restoring the natural beauty of our coastal line, we will take stock of the garbage collected and publish statistics to the media. Teams disperse for breakfast. 10am - Safe disposal of garbage by the authorities, dropping off volunteers back at their respective assembly points across the city
ASSEMBLY POINTS & BEACH ZONES ============================== Volunteers will be picked up at 11 assembly points across the city - Adyar - Rainforest - 5:30am Ashok Pillar - Udayam Theatre - 5am Egmore - Railway station - 5:15am Guindy circle - Mount Road opposite railway station - 5:15am Kottivakam - Bharat Petroleum bunk - 5:30am Koyambedu - petrol bunk opposite CMBT - 5am Marina lighthouse - lighthouse - 6am Tirunmangalam signal - Anna Nagar West bus depot - 5am Tirunvanmyur - Adyar Bakery - 5:30am Velachery - opposite Vijayanagar bus stop - 5:15am Besant Nagar - Eliot beach - 5:50am Volunteers will be split up in groups and allocated different beach zones for cleanup covering the entire Chennai coastal line from Marina till Injanmbakkam http://maps.google.co.in/maps/ms?msid=210029767232951908361.0004b7e43fe843c811425&msa=0&ll=12.962238,80.274782&spn=0.071515,0.111494
SPREADING AWARENESS ===================== As during previous years, CTC photographers & media will extensively cover the entire clean-up drive to spread awareness through news & social media to reach out to tens of thousands of people around us. We need your help to spread the message to your friends on the social networks by sharing our event poster: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=565705880128537&set=a.565705876795204.1073741828.565703510128774&type=1&theater We invite you to share your views, ideas, suggestions and participate in discussions with other volunteers and organizers at our CCC/4 FB page: http://www.facebook.com/CoastalCleanup4
COMPANIES, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, EXTERNAL GROUPS ================================================ We welcome schools, companies, external groups to join our mega-cleanup campaign. No need to register individually - just shoot an email to peter.vangeit@gmail.com with the group name and headcount you wish to participate. We would allocate a dedicate beach zone to your group.

CTC/CCC4 Introduction Brochure

SPONSORS ========== To keep this green effort free for volunteers we need sponsors for garbage bags and gloves. Any company or group or individual willing to sponsor (part of) the required expense please contact me directly. Companies interested to sponsor the volunteers with other memorables (t-shirt, cap, ...) are also welcome.
CTC/CCC4 Introduction Brochure
Peter peter.vangeit@gmail.com 9600004509
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