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Kids for Bhopal Walkathon New York
By: Dwaipayan
Posted: Jul 13 09
Witnessed: 828 times
Regions: United States
Issues: Children's rights, Corporations and human rights
Tags: Bhopal, corporate accountability, Dow Chemical, environmental justice
In May 2009, Kids for a Better Future organized a walkathon in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. This was in solidarity with Kids Against DOW-Carbide. Kids for Better Future is a child-run organization run by Akash Visvanath Mehta that organizes and fundraises for various child-related issues all over the world. Children Against Dow-Carbide is an organisation of the children born to the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster and the victims of the water poisoned due to the waste abandoned at the Union Carbide factory site in Bhopal, India.
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