Mission Save Tada/2 - Aug 8
Peter Van Geit
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dERBSVo4YUtqalRuVEhPQnpwX3djaVE6MA
Mission Save Tada/2 - Aug 8
A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, THIS WAS TADA:
Today Tada is described as a place filled with garbage, liquor bottles, broken glass pieces, plastic covers, plates, plastic water bottles, rappers of biscuits, assorted snacks, aluminium foils, metal caps, clothes, footwear..... and what not? - It is also home to those anti-social elements who drink there and cause harm not only to the general public but also to the peaceful trekkers either directly or indirectly.
THIS IS HOW THE PLACE LOOKS LIKE NOW:
Its high time we acted upon this; We as trekkers and nature enthusiasts share a common goal of protecting nature. Yet we have not managed to do much about the anti-social activities happening out there in the name of the so called "Eco-Tourism". Absolutely no rules are being followed in this place, no one ever bothers to check if the rules are being obeyed, plastic wastes are scattered everywhere - yet not a sign of dust bins
The pictures above open the doors to reality, it appears as if mother nature is desperately crying for help. If left unnoticed, the whole place would die out eventually. Friends, lets come together on this date, to help save mother nature before it reaches a point of no return; lets take up the responsibility and clean up this place apart from our usual fun filled trek; lets measure the waste extracted and let the officers know what has happened to a beautiful place in just a few years and document it. This would at least help reduce by a great extent, if not prevent, the use of plastics and littering around; this will make the authorities enforce basic rules that will preserve the beauty for ages to come. So that we can continue our passion and create a safe green home for mother nature.
To show its concern for Tada, CTC along with the help of media dhas decided to take up the clean-up operation under its flag. Friends, and to all those who love nature, come, be a part of this wonderful and responsible trek. Its time to show your part in conserving nature and exposing the corrupt.
LOGISTICS
Similar to Save Tada/1, we are planning to form 20 garbage buster teams, each lead by a CTC organizer and assigned to 20 different garbage buster zones, demarcated with zone flags.
LINK TO MISSION SAVE TADA/1, NON 2009
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B_o7QtZJaW3qMGQxZDgwODctNDRkYi00YWZjLWFiMDYtYzY2MGE3MzIzYzc3&hl=en
SUMMARY
Objective - Trek/walk to the Tada waterfalls and CLEAN-UP on the way back
Terrain – rocks, some bushes, waterfalls
Difficulty – easy, participants need to be healthy
Duration – 1 day in forest/hills, including clean-up
Distance - 2 hours North of Chennai, around 4km trek
Transportation - own (cars, bikes)
Expense - around 500Rs (shared petrol, food, ...)
Advance – to be paid when joining – 500Rs
PICKUP POINTS:
TIDEL Park (bus stop) – 5am
Madya Kailash (bus stop) – 5:10am
Guindy circle (Toyota showroom) - 5:20am
Koyambedu (Nathan cafe) - 5:40am
Varadaiahpalem (People coming from Bangalore) - 7:30 am (near Sri Kalahasti)
MUST CARRY LUGGAGE:
Comfortable walking shoes
Carry 2 liters of water
Small/medium back-pack to carry water, food
One extra set of clothes if you want to take a dip in the pools
Sun cap and cream
Camera and 500Rs cash
Food will be taken care of by us
Garbage bags and gloves will be provided by us
ORGANIZERS/CONTACTS
Peter - peter....@gmail.com, 9600004509
Zeba - cool...@gmail.com, 9940107386
Zeba Ahmad
Looks like CTC's out to make history again! Within 36 hours we had 50 registrations already for Mission Save Tada!
What’s happening right now?
There’s much being planned for this huge event. We are looking at 500+ volunteers for this event and building up the skeleton to manage an operation of this scale!
Our official poster and invite letter are ready! ( PFA with this email )
People have already started volunteering for various activities. If you have volunteered for any activities we will be getting in touch soon!
To give an idea, here are some things up ahead for us:
Ø Create a buzz in media – online, print & visual
Ø Identify teams, zones & leads. Add some creative team play
Ø Find sponsors
Ø Invite forest officials
Ø Arrange transport, food
Pitching in your penny!
Wanna know how you can pitch in? Here are some pointers ;)
1. Join the mission!
Sign up at the form below to give your 'Aye' for presence at the event!
2. Find us a sponsor!
At the end of every event, it is always nice to carry some memorabilia of the noble work that we do. We are looking for sponsors for caps, t-shirts, gloves, hoarding, posters!
3. Give us your suggestions!
Volunteers are also welcome to give their suggestions and reach out to us through the various forums we have created.
Sign up at our facebook event to join in on discussions and sync with other volunteers:
We also have a discussion sub-forum at our Nabble forum :
Do also check out our blog for regular updates on Save Tada/2 activity:
http://www.chennaitrekkers.org/2010/07/mission-save-tada2-aug-8-2010.html
4. Spread the word!
More the participation, better the success! We need your help in spreading the word.
Ø Pass on the invite to your friends, family, neighbours and any groups you are in touch with – and encourage them to do so too. Update your facebook / orkut / buzz status to Mission Save Tada!
Ø Let us know if you have contacts for online / print / visual media. We do have a big media contact list from our previous Tada & Coastal Cleanup Campaigns but if there are new forums we can reach out, do let us know.
Ø Looking for support / participation from college students(free of cost). Do take this up with any colleges that you are in touch with.
Ø Looking for support from well know public personalities / celebrities / VIP’s. Let us know if any of you can give us contacts for these. No doubt, this can widen the reach for our message.
We have created a write-up and poster which you can use for passing on the message to individuals and groups. PFA with this email – InviteWriteup & SaveTada2
Also uploaded here:
http://groups.google.co.in/group/sachennaitrekkingclub/web/mission-save-tada-2-aug-8
http://sachennaitrekkingclub.googlegroups.com/web/SaveTada2.jpg?gsc=Z62QyAsAAAB7FnWHl8Y4dUIe6qEcDkdg
Let's get going!!
Do you all hear the distant rumbles, people?
CTC's gonna thunderstorm this time! Join in, let's all get wet!
Here's the current list of participants:
kannan
Peter
Hariharan.V.S
Jigar Doshi
Nithya G
Neetha
Logeswaran
Partha
Arun Karthik N
Ela Johri
manojkumar n
Ansar
hari kumar balasundaram
Sailesh
S Thilak Raj
Praveen
gandhi
NobalMohan
Manish Mishra
Prasanna Kothandaraman
R.Malar Manian
Gowri
Badrinath Sunku
Alex Franklin Jude
Karthik R Yadav
Ranjithkumar
Giri Venkatesh
Bala
Komandur Kannan
Lavanya
Avijeet
Vivekanandhan
Hari Haran V
Zeba Ahmad
Devakumar
Nirmala C
Paulmathi
Vinod
Uma Maheswari
Ramesh B
Sheik dawood
Ram
Pritpal Singh
Premkumar
varun
Jesu Noel
Sanjay Mullasseri
P MOHAN
Jegadish-- Organizers
Zeba Ahmad
Looks like CTC's out to make history again! Within 36 hours we had 50 registrations already for Mission Save Tada!
What’s happening right now?
There’s much being planned for this huge event. We are looking at 500+ volunteers for this event and building up the skeleton to manage an operation of this scale!
Peter Van Geit
Peter Van Geit
Dare to create your own path rather than follow existing trails
http://www.google.com/profiles/peter.vangeit
Peter Van Geit
120 volunteers have signed for mission Save Tada/2 - a small army of passionate souls is slowly growing to take on the battle in the lands of Tada. Supported by a major media campaign the battle will send a strong message throughout our community to raise the level of environmental awareness.
Calling out for more volunteers who strongly believe we should preserve the natural beauty of this planet for future generations. Bring along your family, friends, colleagues, talk to schools, your company. The more souls participate, the more energy will flow.We are in the process of forming 15 garbage busting battalions deployed along 15 zones in the Tada stream lead by 15 CTC field commanders. 3 weeks to go before the largest battle in recent times...Save Tada Warriors
Zeba Ahmad
Just 10 more days to go!!!
Enroll sooooonn!!
- We are in discussion with SriCity, a township + SEZ based around Tada falls for our major sponsorships( awareness / posters / banners, etc ). We are also talking with them on next-steps.
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Our media campaign has been kicked off,
and will slowly pick up momentum as we near the D-Day ( Reports in
leading dailies in Chennai / Andhra as well as local media ). Further details in next update.
- Some of our team leads had an interview with Doordarshan Podhigai on CTC's social/environmental activities including Save Tada / 2. To be telecast on August 3rd / 10th.
- Poster / banner / team flag logo-printing activities will be picked up as soon as the sponsorship is finalized.
- Tentative food arrangements for volunteers ( breakfast / lunch ) have been made. Further details based on final count.
- Procurement of bags / gloves have been initiated.
The plan ..
There is a 3km walk upto the base of Tada, followed by an 800m high-density garbage zone. This 800m zone is divided into15 sub-Zones from the bottom of Tada till the highest point.
The highest point is demarcated by Zone 1 and the lowest as Zone 15.
Zone 1 - Highest point ( Fittest volunteers )
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Zone 15 - Lowest point ( First-timers / slower voluteers )
Zones and leads
Here are our 15 squadron leaders for Save Tada and their zones / symbols. Keep these in mind - one of them will be yours!!!
Peter / Neetha / Zeba will also be available for over-all co-ordination
Zone 4 - Gowri
Zone 5 - Ranjith
Zone 6 - Balaji
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Zone 7 - Ela
Zone 8 - Zeba / Marie
Zone 14 - Ansar
Official CTC photographers ( Karthik / Samyak / Hari )
HURRY, ENROLL SOON!!!
Some volunteers have come forward with involvement of School / College / NSS.
Do talk to your circle and let us know if you can help!!!
Zone map and more detailswill follow in next update!!
Current participant list:
Nikil Sridhar
Rajasekar
L Maheshwaran
Vinoth Kumar Kannan
Sriharsha Seetamraj
Kumaran + 5
ponkumaran
Thomas Arun Raj.I
Shashank Rao
veena r
Javed
Vasanth
Usha
Riaz
sudhir oberoi
Sridhar R
Vijayaganesh
Shon Balkrishna Yadav
Dharmendra S
J.Mahendran
shankar
Muthukumar VS
Chandrashekhar
Karthick
Vignesh B
Vikas Anand
Vani Mishra
AMITA
Shivendra K Gupta
Saranya Sumi
v naveen kumar
Laveena
N.Sivakumar
David
raj
Gerald Raj + 2 (Arif and Shiv)
Zeba
Zeba Ahmad
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dERBSVo4YUtqalRuVEhPQnpwX3djaVE6MA
Please note, all other forums including Facebook and Orkut's Save Tada communities are for discussion and sharing of ideas only. Only people registered in the above link will be included in the transporatation / food arrangements.
If you want to spread the message, here is our write-up on the event:
http://groups.google.co.in/group/sachennaitrekkingclub/web/mission-save-tada-2-aug-8
Zeba
neetha
Hi Ali….we will inform all those details couple of days before the actual event.
NOTE TO ALL: Request you all to mail Zeba, Peter or myself for any queries rather than spamming the entire group. Thanks for your understanding.
From: Ali Jabir
[mailto:jabir...@yahoo.co.in]
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 7:24 PM
To: The Chennai Trekking Club; Zeba Ahmad
Cc: Peter Van Geit; neetha; Hari Balasundaram; gowrisankar.s; alex
franklin; Ansar CGT; bala bala; Ela Johri; S. Thilak Raj; Ranjithkumar
Kanagarajan; Balaji - Happy New Year...; Biju VK; adi; Karmuhilan Chellakkannu;
paarig
Subject: Re: [Chennai Trekking Club] Re: Mission Save Tada/2 - Aug 8
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· ( ) Tidel park - 5 am · ( ) Madhya Kailash - 5:10 am · ( ) Guindy circle - 5:15 am · ( ) Koyambedu - 5:40 am · ( ) Varadaieh Palem ( For people joining from bangalore) - 7:30 am
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Lokeswaran T
I have uploaded our save mission TADA-2 photos in picasa album. Please check the below link.
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/107496497240969819754/MissionSaveTada2#
Regards,
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