In a country where 43% believe that it is alright to flout rules because the penalty is low, OR, where 41% believe that girls have no option, but to accept a certain degree of violence…then it is time to wonder whether we will truly be a developed country, despite an economic progress. An attitudinal shift clearly is the NEED OF THE HOUR and that is the work that CMCA does in over 300 schools in India. CMCA's unique, year-long programme encourages children to BELIEVE that change is possible, ACT upon it and then INFLUENCE others to change too! Active Citizenship - from basic civic sense to an attitudinal change - that is the crux of our work! •Over 300 children have called up the Municipal helplines and got civic problems fixed - from potholes on roads, to broken pipes, to open manholes, etc. •For the last 8 years CMCA children have participated in the beach clean up after Ganpati Visarjan in Mumbai & saved our beaches. •Laavanya from Tumkur District encouraged her parents to guid a toilet in their home, with the help of the Gram Panchayat. This inspired 60 others too, to build toilets! These are just a fraction of the inspirational stories that children have been involved in. The locations maybe widespread, the initiatives different, but the unifying & heartening fact is that all these changes were made by CHILDREN. We need your support to create MORE ACTIVE CITIZENS!