Child Rights Organization Reaches Out to Bay Area

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Child Rights Organization Reaches Out to Bay Area Water Conservation Perks For EBMUD Customers
By Traci Noffsinger
Metro Editor
F
or
children
in
India
who are suffering from
malnourishment, abuse or the lack
of education, there is help coming
from a U.S.-based group with a
branch in the Bay Area.
Child Rights and You (CRY)
has been working with children,
parents and communities to fund
and bring a change to the lives
of children, either in India or the
United States, since 2002.
According to their website, the
mission of CRY America is to enable
people to take responsibility for
the situation of underprivileged
children and motivate them to
confront the situation through
collective action, giving children
and themselves an opportunity to
realize their full potential.
“We partner with CRY, an
Indian NGO (non-governmental
organization) that has been
working in the area of child
rights for over 25 years,” the
CRY website states. “CRY
has impeccable standards of
accountability and transparency
and
has
developed
highly
effective planning, monitoring
and evaluation systems that are
applied to each of the projects
that we fund in India.”
On May 21, CRY America hosted
a conference in San Francisco to
inform people from around the Bay
Area of the situation in India and
what they can do to help. Among
those who participated in the
panel was Shefali Sunderlal, the
president of CRY America.
“Rights of children are violated
every day across the world,”
Sunderlal said at the conference.
“Yet, in sheer numbers, what is
happening in India is mind-boggling.
India must take accountability and
live up to the promise it made when
it acknowledged child rights in its
constitution (even if it is equated
with human rights) and by its
ratification of the U.N. Convention
on the Rights of the Child. This is not
just an ‘India’ problem, but a ‘global’
one. It requires an international call
to make child rights a priority.”
Since formed, CRY has helped
change the lives of 156,503
children in India. Over 500 people
have volunteered and helped over
1,000 villages.
The core of CRY is volunteers,
who work at action centers
around the United States. The Bay
Area action center was started in
2003 and is led by Amit Saxena, a
software engineer at Cisco Systems
who earned his bachelor’s degree
from MMM Engineering College in
Gorakhpur, India.
This year, the Bay Area action
center will host a fundraising walk
2008, the third walk in the Bay Area
since 2006, and the fifth walk since
CRY America was started in 2002.
The walk will be the first this summer
with other major cities participating
throughout the season.
The Bay Area walk will take
place on June 15 at the Shoreline
Amphitheater in Mountain View.
The event comprises a 5 km/10
km walk and for those who want
to participate, they will need to
register for a nominal fee and can
also collect pledges which will
go toward supporting projects in
India. U.S. participants will receive
a free t-shirt, a goodie bag and the
chance to win tickets to a Giants
baseball game. Indian food and
drinks will be provided.
For more information on CRY
America or ways to help, visit
america.cry.org.
issue) whatsoever.”
Eyer notes that the 14th
Amendment guarantees equal
protection of the law to all citizens,
“So whatever laws do exist must
treat everyone the same,” he
said, noting that laws drafted to
deny gays and lesbians the same
rights enjoyed by others would by
definition be unconstitutional.
Conservation, from page 2.
• Using water for decorative
ponds, lakes and fountains except
those that recycle the water.
• Washing vehicles with hoses
that do not contain shutoff
nozzles.
• Washing sidewalks, patios and
similar hard surfaces.
• Irrigating outdoors on consecutive days or more than three
days a week.
• Watering lawns or gardens in
ways that cause excessive run-off.
• Flushing sewers and hydrants
with drinkable water or using it to
wash streets.
• Using drinking water for
construction uses if alternatives
are available.
• Using drinking water for soil
compaction and dust control when
another source is available.
Customers’ allotment of water
will be determined by their past
water bills. Each household will
be asked to cut water usage by 19
percent, but those that use less
than 100 gallons of water per day
will be exempt from any additional
charges on your bill.
However, customers who use
more than 90 percent of their
allotted water will receive a two
dollar surcharge on your bill for
each unit of water. A unit of water
is 748 gallons of water.
Customers who do cut their
water usage by 19 percent will
receive a reduction on their bill.
The drought rates will be
determined at a meeting of the
EBMUD board of directors on
July 8 at EBMUD, 375 Eleventh
Street, Oakland. Customers of
EBMUD are welcome to attend the
meeting. The decisions made at
this meeting will be implemented
Aug. 1.
For more information on how to
conserve water or how the rates
may affect you, visit ebmud.com.
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State Candidates Voice Opinions On Gay Marriage
Gay Marriage, from page 3.
Supreme Court’s recent decision
in support of marriage equality,”
his website said.
Barbara Lee, the Congresswoman running for reelection to
represent the Ninth Congressional
District, said “I believe that loving
and committed same-sex couples
should have the right to get
married, receive legal recognition
of their marriage in the eyes of
the government and exercise all
the legal benefits associated with
their marriage.”
“I am opposed to any effort that
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legal definition of marriage that
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couples to marry or to have their
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she said. “In line with that, I also
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opportunity to adopt children and
provide a loving home to children
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