Rajesh Tandon

Rajesh Tandon is the co-founder of SPARC (Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres)[1], an Indian non-profit working on water & sanitation and human rights from Mumbai.

SPARC (Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres)

SPARC is a Mumbai-based alliance organisation working with slum and pavement-dweller communities on housing construction, water and sanitation infrastructure, and community-led relocation. It reports having built 6,837 housing units and 820 community toilet blocks, and having supported the relocation of over 33,000 families across Indian cities.

SPARC (Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres) reports the following, on its own site:

  • 6,837 housing units constructed
  • 33,317 families relocated
  • 2,815 individual home upgrades provided
  • 1,085 individual toilets provided