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DFC is the largest global movement designed to give children an opportunity to express their own ideas for a better world and put them into action.

This year, the Design for Change contest has spread to 34 countries and will infect 25 million children with the "I CAN" bug, fuelled by passion, belief and a compelling sense of purpose.

DFC's West UP partner Braj Mandal Heritage Conservation Society president Surendra Sharma today released the kit being sent to schools. Sharma said last year more than 15 schools participated but "this year we plan to involve more than 50 in the competition which is unique, socially relevant and exciting for the school children."

Normally schools start organizing activities during the Joy of Giving week, last week of September. The final submission of reports will end on October 8. Winners will be announced on November 14, children's day.

For details schools may visit Dfcworld.com/india.

In addition to 100 prizes, Disney will sponsor 20 top stories, while Amar Chitra Katha will give away exciting gift hampers to the top 100 winners. CNN-IBN will showcase six DFC stories from previous years for their groundbreaking ideas in a special episode to be aired on children's day.

Last year students of HLC International School in Chennai worked on a project to recycle waste. In the process they realized that one man's waste could be another's treasure. Starting with a waste collection drive, they made decorative articles from plastic bottles and paper bags from old newspapers which were then donated to an orphanage. In Mirzapur district of UP, students developed a herbal gardent to sensitize more than 2000 people in their community to the harmful effects of some allopathic medicines. School kids in Dehradun set out to find an exclusive design for a burner that would work on only twigs and dry leaves and in turn reduce massive consumption of wood in cooking from a motorcycle silencer.

Hundreds of other schools all over India tried various ideas that would help bring about transformation of their communities in a meaningful manner and in the process help children to feel, imagine, do and share.

The founder of the movement based at Ahmedabad, Kiran Sethi told Agratoday.in: "Design for Change is the largest global movement designed to give children an opportunity to express their own ideas for a better world and put them into action. Children and adults learn through the Design for Change Challenge that “I Can” are the two most powerful words a person can believe.

Children who have discovered this are changing their world. This year, Design for Change reaches 34 countries and over 300,000 schools inspiring hundreds of thousands of children, their teachers and parents, to celebrate the fact change is possible and that they can lead that change! The challenge asks students to do four very simple things: Feel, Imagine, Do and Share. Children are dreaming up and leading brilliant ideas all over the world, from challenging age-old superstitions in rural communities, to earning their own money to finance school computers to solving the problem of heavy school bags – children are proving that they have what it takes to be able to ‘design’ a future that is desired."