Projects
Celebrate Oceans
Of all places on Earth, the ocean is busiest with life. It is also the most fragile and vulnerable to pollution. The saddest part is, we can’t see the full extent of damage we are causing to this home of diverse life. Perhaps the only visible signs are things that wash up on our beaches. So that’s where we have started – with an ongoing activity to clean our beaches, awareness campaigns about the dangers of pollution, especially those caused by plastic waste, and by creating sustainable solutions to prevent and put an end to pollution.
With time, we will also go deeper with our activities that encompass protection and preservation of all marine life.
Back to the Roots
Let’s hug trees. But first, let’s plant them, and protect them – in the countryside, in cities, in skyscrapers even. We are finding unique ways of creating and protecting forests by involving individuals and corporates, and our focus is on urban forestation, creating forest areas to rehabilitate animals, as well as preserving existing forests. As with everything else, we are creating awareness and imparting education about the importance of living in harmony with nature and how forests are needed for survival – of animals and of us.
Relief Operation
The migrant daily-wage workers happened to be the worst-affected sections of our society due to the COVID lockdown. Deprived of their daily income and the means to return home, they are rendered helpless. At Ek Saath, we vowed to do everything in our capacity to support their cause and help them sustain this period. We managed to provide the essential rations to 12,000 such stranded families in dire need location across different areas in the city. Further, To help households without proper cooking facilities, our relief kitchen served over 5000 meals on a daily-basis to the needy families amounting to 1.5 lakh meals in total.
Sustainable Development
It is possible for all institutions to be Earth-friendly. We believe they are ready, but just don’t know how, or where to begin. Our aim is to help people choose a sustainable way of running businesses, schools, hospitals etc. through education, by creating options, and by enabling them to put appropriate systems in place. We will invest in programmes and ideas needed to bridge gaps that empower people to choose sustainability as a way of life.
Waste Segregation
This is perhaps the easiest way to express our love for the environment, and we are taking up the challenge to make dry and wet waste segregation a habit for those living in the poorer neighbourhoods of cities. Our approach will be a combination of creating not just awareness and education but also of giving incentives for neighbourhoods that make waste segregation a part of their daily routine. This initiative will also reach out to housing societies, schools and offices to help them to earn the tag of Zero Waste Creators.
We took our waste segregation practice to a new realm by making the first zero-waste film in the country. Teaming up with Skrap, we managed over 16,138 kgs* of waste at the Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui film shoot from October 26 to December 21, 2020. Of this, 15,352 kgs or 95.1% was recycled. 578.7 kgs or 3.6% of non-recyclable waste was sent for co-processing/ incineration. 207.5 kgs or 1.3% was handed over to Municipality as Reject waste. Further, the food salvage efforts helped collect and distribute over 1,200 meals in low-income communities.
Of all places on Earth, the ocean is busiest with life. It is also the most fragile and vulnerable to pollution. The saddest part is, we can’t see the full extent of damage we are causing to this home of diverse life. Perhaps the only visible signs are things that wash up on our beaches. So that’s where we have started – with an ongoing activity to clean our beaches, awareness campaigns about the dangers of pollution, especially those caused by plastic waste, and by creating sustainable solutions to prevent and put an end to pollution.
With time, we will also go deeper with our activities that encompass protection and preservation of all marine life.
Let’s hug trees. But first, let’s plant them, and protect them – in the countryside, in cities, in skyscrapers even. We are finding unique ways of creating and protecting forests by involving individuals and corporates, and our focus is on urban forestation, creating forest areas to rehabilitate animals, as well as preserving existing forests. As with everything else, we are creating awareness and imparting education about the importance of living in harmony with nature and how forests are needed for survival – of animals and of us.
The migrant daily-wage workers happened to be the worst-affected sections of our society due to the COVID lockdown. Deprived of their daily income and the means to return home, they are rendered helpless. At Ek Saath, we vowed to do everything in our capacity to support their cause and help them sustain this period. We managed to provide the essential rations to 12,000 such stranded families in dire need location across different areas in the city. Further, To help households without proper cooking facilities, our relief kitchen served over 5000 meals on a daily-basis to the needy families amounting to 1.5 lakh meals in total.
It is possible for all institutions to be Earth-friendly. We believe they are ready, but just don’t know how, or where to begin. Our aim is to help people choose a sustainable way of running businesses, schools, hospitals etc. through education, by creating options, and by enabling them to put appropriate systems in place. We will invest in programmes and ideas needed to bridge gaps that empower people to choose sustainability as a way of life.
This is perhaps the easiest way to express our love for the environment, and we are taking up the challenge to make dry and wet waste segregation a habit for those living in the poorer neighbourhoods of cities. Our approach will be a combination of creating not just awareness and education but also of giving incentives for neighbourhoods that make waste segregation a part of their daily routine. This initiative will also reach out to housing societies, schools and offices to help them to earn the tag of Zero Waste Creators.
We took our waste segregation practice to a new realm by making the first zero-waste film in the country. Teaming up with Skrap, we managed over 16,138 kgs* of waste at the Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui film shoot from October 26 to December 21, 2020. Of this, 15,352 kgs or 95.1% was recycled. 578.7 kgs or 3.6% of non-recyclable waste was sent for co-processing/ incineration. 207.5 kgs or 1.3% was handed over to Municipality as Reject waste. Further, the food salvage efforts helped collect and distribute over 1,200 meals in low-income communities.
