On this Children’s Day, Smile Foundation is launching a nationwide "You Can Make a Difference" Poster Campaign across various schools involving children.

Many celebrities, public figures and local eminent personalities have come forward to support and encourage the cause behind the mega campaign being initiated on 14th of November 2007.

The campaign is a part of Smile Foundation’s ongoing special programme named ‘You Can Make A Difference’ (YCMD). The objective of the programme is to sensitize and recognize the existing disparity between the ‘haves and the have nots’ even in the 21st century and motivate both the young and the old to contribute their individual mite towards the cause of the underprivileged children.

The special poster campaign under YCMD programme is covering seven states through direct workshops and rest of the states through mails, couriers and local stakeholders.

The poster campaign aims to sensitize children and make them the future change makers by following a certain well defined agenda. Some of them are given below:-

1. Make sure your parents don't employ children under 14
2. Use cloth bags for shopping, say no to plastic
3. Help plant trees and flowers in a public area or at a park near your home
4. Adopt a local park, stream or beach, and clean it up
5. Take a pledge to help preserving the environment
6. Do not drive before 18


A few of the scheduled locations for the direct poster campaign are mentioned below:-

Location                                              School                                           Celebrity / Guest

Goa                                 Kendriya Vidyalaya,Verem                      Chairman, KV Sangathan
Karnataka                        Bishop Cotton Girls School, Bangalore      Mr. Suresh Heblikar, Noted Environmentalist
West Bengal                     DPS,Mega City                                       Ms. Sanchita and Abrakanti of Li’l Champs fame
Karnataka                        Kendriya Vidyalaya, Belgaum                  Asst. Commissioner, KV Sangathan
Tamil Nadu                       Motilal Fomra H S, Chennai                     Mr. Suriah, Actor/ Director and Ms. Shirin, Filmstar
Haryana                           Mahaveer Jain Public School,                   Kurukshetra District Education Officer
Punjab                             MGN School, Kapurthala                          Principal
Maharashtra                     Kendriya Vidyalaya, Mumbai
Maharashtra                     Kendriya Vidyalaya, Hingna
Maharashtra                     New Apostolic Eng School, Nagpur
Maharashtra                     Naveenbhai Desai Residential School, (rural Nagpur)

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Education for Poor Children – is the focus of Smile Foundation Programmes across India. Our various projects spread across different Indian states provide Literacy and Basic Education for Poor Children, besides health care support. Providing Education for Poor Children remains the prime agenda of Smile Foundation programmes. Smile Foundation India thus undertakes programmes which facilitates Education for Underprovided and Poor Children across the Indian states of Delhi, Maharashra, Rajasthan, Orissa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Karnataka, Jharkhand etc. Let’s Join hands and spread Education for Poor Children of India and South Asia.