Our Vision and Mission
"Rising towards EcoSocial Development"
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"UPCYCLING waste to Conserve the environment, Enable rural livelihoods and Create aware citizens of this planet!"
Who Are We?
reCharkha - The EcoSocial Tribe is a Social Enterprise, founded by Amita Deshpande on the belief that, development can only be sustainable if it is bottom-up! This means, sustainable development is possible only when it begins at the grassroots; be it the Communities that we work with for Enabling Livelihoods, or Citizens that we work with for Participative Behavior Change. Only when this is combined, will EcoSocial Development be achieved!
Our three core areas of work are geared to achieve this very model!
These are:
1) Conserving our Environment and Heritage,
2) Enabling Rural and Tribal Livelihoods and
3) Creating Conscious Consumers
What We Do
Our present focus is
- Resolving the issue non-biodegradable and difficult-to-recycle Waste Plastic, by UPCYCLING it.
- Enabling LIVELIHOODS for Tribal and Rural Women and Youth
- Reviving traditional CHARKHA, HANDLOOM and ORIGAMI BASKETRY, through craft-based livelihood.
The UPCYCLED-HANDCRAFTED fabric is used to make consumer products such as handbags, fashion accessories, office utilities, games and home decor products.
Do watch our UPCYCLING process.
Why we do, What we do?
In the vicinity of some of our favorite getaways lies an ever-growing heap of dumped plastic waste owing to the rampant commercialization. Even if cleaned, waste from this dump ends up landfills, where it is burnt to pollute the air OR wind or water carries them 'away' to nearby rivers and finally in the oceans of our planet; in the process harming so many of our co-inhabitants!
Also, as most people flock to urbanized regions to make the best of the economic boom in urban employment, the ridge between the rural society and the industrialized urban India keeps increasing; hence our work on Rural Livelihoods especially for Women!
Our attempt is to bring about EcoSocial Development to transform this deteriorating condition of our Environment and Society!
Get in touch
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