Pradeep Sangwan
FounderFounder of Healing Himalayas Foundation
Pradeep Sangwan is the founder of Healing Himalayas Foundation (2016)[1], an Indian non-profit working on environment, water & sanitation and livelihood from Gurugram.
Healing Himalayas Foundation
Healing Himalayas Foundation, founded by environmentalist and mountaineer Pradeep Sangwan, tackles waste pollution across the Himalayas. It builds decentralised, mountain-ready Material Recovery Facilities that double as community learning spaces, runs cleanup drives with volunteers along trek routes, works with governments on high-altitude waste governance and pilgrimage systems, and creates green livelihoods through recycling, upcycling and composting enterprises.
Healing Himalayas Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 1,000+ cleanup drives, with volunteers trekking 10,000+ km
- 2,000+ tonnes of waste collected from the Himalayas
- 9 material recovery facilities across 50+ villages
- 8,757+ households and 2,900+ commercial establishments reached as direct beneficiaries
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Gurugram
- Founded
- 2016
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Founded in 2016 by environmentalist and mountaineer Pradeep Sangwan, Healing Himalayas began as a small clean-up initiative and has grown into one of India's leading high-altitude circular waste management organizations.” — Healing Himalayas Foundation. Source
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