Students – The Best Teacher

What better way could be there of spreading love and compassion than through kids. In pursuit of our mission of bringing respect and dignity to Paryavaran Mitras, we are engaging with students of our city. We are involving them into a series of activities which gives them holistic knowledge about Waste & its management, rag-picking women & their phenomenal work and Mother Earth & our role for... Continue Reading

  • May 1, 2017
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Saturday Special with a Purpose…..

It was a great learning experience for Paryavaran Mitra sisters to visit Gramshree, a sister organisation giving skilled based livelihood opportunities to women. This was the first visit of paryavaran Mitra sisters to Gramshree. They were welcomed with great love and respect in our traditional manner. Neetaben and Anamikaben (Leaders- Social Wing) spoke about the vision behind the centre and... Continue Reading

5th Profit Sharing Event

In Paryavaran Mitra, we aim to have a co-operative as a final institution wherein our lovely sisters will be the owners and we will just be the facilitators. As a part of our model we purchase-sell the recyclables collected by our sisters. In the whole process we earn some profit which is then shared back with the sisters on bi-yearly basis in terms of groceries, education fee for their kids or... Continue Reading

Annual Progress Report :)

Dear friends and family, As 31st March signifies the end of financial year in Indian economy, we are happy to share some milestones of our project till date. Key inspiring points are: 1. In this journey, we served more than 300+ women of which 175 are regular ones. 2. We facilitated recycling of more than 700,000 kgs of waste. 3. We distributed a sum of Rs.55,00,000 against the waste... Continue Reading

Yet another fulfilling Saturday Special…

'Shraddha', an initiative to empower women by providing them Pedal Rickshaw as loan followed by a well designed repayment mechanism, which enables these women to become the owner in just 11 months. It was an absolute pleasure to start the distribution of Pedal Rickshaw to the enrolled beneficiaries through this initiative in our Saturday Special Event organised at Mausal - RUPA Paryavaran Mitra... Continue Reading

  • March 18, 2017
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