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Aamhi Swaach Charitable Foundation

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Aamhi Swaach Charitable Foundation

Aamhi Swaach Charitable Foundation

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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Aamhi Swaach Charitable Foundation, founded in 2022 by Rosalind Pereira, is a rural solid waste management initiative operating across Raigad, Maharashtra. Established to address the growing crisis of non-biodegradable waste in coastal villages, Project Aamhi reclaims public spaces by actively collecting plastic, glass, and textile waste from beaches, roads, and mangroves. Operating as a transformative circular economy model, the foundation employs local safai-sathis and rural women artisans, creating sustainable, dignified livelihoods. Collected waste undergoes meticulous segregation, with recyclable materials routed to authorized partners and usable textiles creatively upcycled into durable market bags. By redistributing clothing and converting industrial scrap into utility products, the initiative successfully prevents massive environmental pollution. Through extensive community education on wet and dry waste segregation, Aamhi fosters a deep sense of environmental responsibility, empowering rural communities to independently maintain pristine, self-sustaining, and zero-waste neighborhoods.

name

Rosalind Pereira

Co-Founder

Operating since 2022

60-70 Members

Impact

Eco-system

Cities and Towns

Villages

Oceans

Sub-sectors

Community Resilience

Circular Economy and Waste Reduction

Environmental Services

Social Enterprise

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Black Potli Bag
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Black Potli Bag

Blue Potli Bag
Tier 1

Blue Potli Bag

Olive Green Potli Bag
Tier 1

Olive Green Potli Bag

Patchwork Laptop Bag
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Patchwork Laptop Bag

Peach Potli Bag
Tier 1

Peach Potli Bag

Purse
Tier 2

Purse

Tiffin Bag
Tier 2

Tiffin Bag

Upcycled Cement Bag Shoe Bags
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Upcycled Cement Bag Shoe Bags

Upcycled Cement Market Bag
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Upcycled Cement Market Bag

Upcycled Flat Tote Bag
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Upcycled Flat Tote Bag

Type of service

  • Waste Processing

Type of waste managed

  • Apparels & textile

A rural solid waste management initiative in Maharashtra empowering local communities through upcycling and recycling.

The Rural Solid Waste Management And Upcycled Artisanal Fabrication Methodology Implemented By Aamhi

Method and Technique of Aamhi Swaach Charitable Foundation are:

  1. Grassroots Solid Waste Collection: The foundation utilizes a highly localized environmental extraction method, deploying trained safai-sathis to manually collect diverse non-biodegradable waste streams—including discarded coconut fronds, glass bottles, and marine plastics—directly from rural roads, coastal beaches, and informal dumping hotspots across Raigad villages.

  2. Parameter-Based Manual Segregation: Aamhi employs a highly rigorous, parameter-specific sorting technique, utilizing local women eco-warriors to meticulously manually separate the collected mixed garbage into twelve distinct categories dictated by specialized recycling partners, successfully ensuring maximum material recovery and preventing cross-contamination of recyclable yields.

  3. Corporate Extended Producer Responsibility Integration: They utilize a strategic industrial collaboration method, effectively channeling segregated plastics, discarded fishing nets, and rubber footwear directly into authorized corporate recycling streams where heavy machinery compresses, shreds, and melts the materials down into raw industrial pellets and durable rubber sheets.

  4. Textile Recovery and Upcycling: The organization employs a creative circular fabrication technique, systematically recovering usable discarded textiles from village dumps to deeply clean and handcraft them into functional market bags and storage pouches, successfully utilizing the sewing skills of rural female artisans to generate local income.

  5. Localized Glass and PET Recycling: Aamhi utilizes a carbon-conscious localized processing method, deliberately executing the preliminary recycling of heavy glass and PET bottles directly within their rural project hubs to drastically reduce the massive transportation emissions that would occur if hauling the raw waste to distant urban recycling plants.

  6. Visual Community Education and Training: They employ a highly accessible, community-integrated educational technique, conducting frequent grassroots training sessions and distributing specialized waste bags printed with clear visual thumbnails of dry waste, effectively teaching rural households exactly how to execute proper wet and dry segregation directly at the source.

Working towards SDGs

1. No Poverty5. Gender Equality8. Decent Work and Economic Growth11. Sustainable Cities and Communities12. Responsible Consumption and Production14. Life Below Water15. Life on Land

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Phone
09820181620
Email
rosalind@projectaamhi.com
Website
https://www.projectaamhi.com/
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Floor 1, Plot 43, Marine Chambers, 114, Villathaldas Thackrey Marg, 11, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400020
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