Happy diwali...!!! without BURSTING FIRECRACKERS

DO WE WANT TO KILL THESE LOVELY CREATURES BY BURSTING FIRECRACKERS?

• CRACKERS  OR   QUAKERS ?????
•  Did you know that diyas lit on the moonless Diwali night signifies the end of darkness and the beginning of happiness?
•  Do Crackers really “begin happiness???”
•  A recent NDTV study shows, The production pace gets accelerated during September-October in sivakasi to meet the enormous demand during Diwali. To deal with up with the target, thousands of children are employed on casual basis.
•  It takes half a million children in Southern Tamilnadu to make these fireworks round the year. These children earn Rs. 10-15 per DAY for working 15 hours/day. Children of your age are DENIED EDUCATION, FOOD and FREEDOM. They are as equally affected as the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Therefore we HAVE TO AVOID these fireworks which have caused a doom in a million lives.
•  School becomes a dream for these children if…… YOU BUY FIRE-CRACKERS…..
•  If humans themselves can’t bear the noise pollution caused by firecrackers, then think about animals who hear SEVEN times more than us…HOW LOUD WOULD FIRECRACKERS BE TO THEM?? Repeatedly as we burst crackers the birds, dogs and cats in the area run away for shelter and when they do not find shelter they get traumatized and some of them DIE due to pressure.……..DO WE WANT TO KILL THESE LOVELY CREATURES BY BURSTING FIRECRACKERS?
•  AIR POLLUTION- A record 30 million people were affected by ASTHMA in India post Diwali last year. Ranging from young children to old people, the smoke causes ASTHMA to everybody. 19 deaths were reported around the country with 6 in Hyderabad alone. Breathing trouble leads to heart congestion and causes death in severe cases. Is it enough??
• Hazardous smoke created from the fireworks can lead to a number of adverse health effects, including heart disturbances, asthma attack, allergies and respiratory illnesses
• Animals & Birds…. An Government survey shows that after firecrackers during Diwali kills 13% of Chennai’s SPARROW population…….
•  With so much negativity added to a celebration, do we really need to burst crackers? We don’t want to make a festival of lights into a festival of Child Labour, Pollution and INSENSITIVITY.. So…… WHAT DO WE DO??????
• Just Avoid Crackers and glow lamps! SIMPLE!! That’s what Deepavali actually means- Row of Lamps!
•  “ Charity begins at home”. Let us not buy crackers and educate our friends about the darker side of this illuminating object.
•  But how can MY contribution be sufficient???
•  Just like “ Every drop makes an ocean ”, every contribution DOES makes Ja difference..!!!  If the Government doesn’t ban Firecrackers, you can just avoid Firecrackers!
•  Taiwan has banned Firecrackers!
•  Sweden then lead the way in 2001!
•  In 2005 Hong Kong also banned Firecrackers!
•  Malaysia followed in 2003!
•  United States in 2007!!!
•  Australia in 2009!
•  In Canada, anyone below 18 can’t burst firecrackers!
• Also by lighting lamps instead of crackers, you are encouraging pottery! This will give employment to rural India!!!