Wellbeing Out Of Waste (WOW)

Educating people on recycling of the waste to protect environment, conserve natural resources, and inculcate the habit of source segregation of waste among the citizens. Maximizing recovery of the dry recyclable waste and progressively eliminate recyclable waste reaching the landfill is also an important objective of our WOW initiative.

Objectives

  • Bring awareness among children and people on recycling waste to protect and preserve the environment.
  • Inculcate the habit of source segregation of waste among the citizens.
  • Maximizing recovery of dry recyclable waste and progressively eliminating recyclable waste reaching the landfill.

"Through the Wellbeing Out of Waste project, MARI upholds its commitment to sustainability by fostering community-driven waste management, promoting environmental stewardship, and empowering individuals to build a cleaner, greener future.."

Interventions

  • Saved 347.66cubic meters of landfill space.
  • 554 MT of CO2 reduced.
  • 3230043 KL of water saved.
  • 184539 units of energy saved.

Achievements

* 25 Basti Mitras are thoroughly trained on doing documents and schemes, MIS, Online grievances raising and on social issues. 28 Basti Vikas Manches are promoted with 225 members among which 85 percent are women, they are trained and strengthened to address slum level issues.
* 17, 437 applications for various documents got submitted and 10, 595 persons received error free documents by which the project saved 1.15 crore rupees of community in 28 slums. We also started conducting camps on voter id, labour card, Adhar card in collaboration with concerned depts.
* 3084 applications filed for claiming entitlements and 237 individuals received benefit from schemes by which the project facilitated in getting 11.5 lakh rupees benefit to families
* 147 children benefited from scholarship or /and admissions in better educational institutions like; Navodaya / KGBV /social, tribal and minority residential schools/ Gurukulam schools. With this initiative the project facilitated in getting the families a benefit of 1.2 lakh rupees in terms of fees, food, boarding, books and miscellaneous benefits.
* 6 micro plans are developed in 6 identified slums in consultation with community and started addressing slums level problems by online and offline representations to govt depts. 554 online grievances are raised in slums through online apps of govt. depts like My GHMC, Citizen Buddy, TGSPDCL, HMWSSB, out of which 41 complaints got resolved. Also given 22 offline presentations to govt depts for resolving major problems like repair of major drainage lines, main roads, Anganwadi centers and Primary Health Centers in few slums.
* Running successfully 3 Child Friendly Learning Spaces at Balapur for 130 Refugee children of 3 to 6 years of age. Providing supplementary nutritious food for 300 children including children from another 3 CFLS’s of MARI UNHCR project, the food is cooked at Community Kitchen at MARI Balapur office and distributed to 6 centers every day.
* Raised awareness levels among people in camps on WASH and drilled new borewells in 2 camp areas and repaired 2 existing borewells by which about by which 300 families are getting sufficient water. Repaired drainage lines and laid new lines in 5 camps by which 320 families are living without drainage problems, health problems due to mosquitos. Also repaired 5 community toilets by which 60 families are now using them and maintaining hygiene.
* Supported 177 women for emergency medical help and another 43 women and children for travel support for reaching out to govt hospitals and for diagnostic centres.

“The Wellbeing Out of Waste project has successfully instilled a culture of responsible waste management, environmental conservation, and community participation, paving the way for a cleaner and more sustainable future.”

2015

ITC Limited Under CSR Program

Boduppal, Hyderabad

Natural Resources Management

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