Get involved
Three
ways in.
The monitoring and the archive are the two things nobody funds. They are the two things that outlast us. Give money, give a morning, or bring us a ward, a river stretch or a cohort.
10,000
Volunteers, annually, since 2010
12A + 80G
Registered
What five hundred
rupees pays for
Five hundred rupees a month, recurring. This is what it buys.
₹500
A month, recurring
The longest thing Swechha runs is twelve days downstream, and the schools that most need to walk it are the ones with no line in the budget for it.
A garden is cheap to plant and expensive to keep. The second year is the one nobody funds and the only one that proves anything.
An archive that will not scan itself
A room full of paper, going back to the first year on the river. Cataloguing and scanning it is slow work that no grant covers.
Asks that land here
Turn up once,
or every month
Clean-ups, garden builds and scanning days in Delhi. The work is unglamorous by design: the river does not need an audience.
10,000
Volunteers, annually
since 2010 · Influence
50
Colleges
since 2010 · Influence
10
Fellowships
each year · Influence
The four things that gather people
The city at cycling speed. Slow enough to smell it, which is the argument.
A day handed over to planting and to whoever will hold a spade. Endurance is the format, and the name says so.
Shramdaan means donated labour. People come to the river and do the unglamorous half of it — clearing, carrying, planting, going home dirty.
A festival for a river nobody celebrates. Nine Junes at the India Habitat Centre, every one of them on World Environment Day.
Asks that land here
- Apply for a fellowshipInfluence
- Book a journeyJourneys — the whole kind
- Book a walkCityScapes
- Plant one with usEco Action
- Plant with usCampaigns — the whole kind
- Plant with usMonsoon Wooding
- Plant with usPark Restoration
- Volunteer with usEvents — the whole kind
- Volunteer with usME to WE
- Walk it with usYamuna Yatra
- Walk the river with usWe for Yamuna
Bring us a ward,
a river stretch
or a cohort
Schools, companies and researchers. A partnership here is a piece of ground, a cohort of people or a stretch of river that somebody else is accountable for — not a logo on a banner.
Schools
The oldest door and the widest. A year-long curriculum, a journey for one cohort, or a single day on the farm. Delhi schools run this every year and have for fifteen.
100–150
Schools in Delhi, every year · Bridge the Gap
Companies
Five companies have paid for planting seasons. What that buys is saplings that are still alive three years later, which costs more than the planting day and photographs worse.
IndusInd Bank · PwC · Amazon · Adobe · S&P Global
~5,000 — Trees planted in Delhi NCR, each year · Monsoon Wooding
Organisations and researchers
Seventy-five organisations take Swechha's volunteers, and that half of the arrangement is the one most easily forgotten. Bring a question, a ward or a river stretch and there is usually a way in.
75
Partner organisations, since 2010 · Influence
Start a partnership enquiry
Straight to a person
This goes to Vimlendu Jha, Swechha’s Executive Director.
Or write to vimlendu@swechha.in.
Fund a piece of the work
Straight to a person
This goes to Vimlendu Jha, Swechha’s Executive Director.
Or write to vimlendu@swechha.in.
Asks that land here
- Bring your schoolBridge the Gap
- Bring your schoolGram Anubhav
- Bring your schoolNatureScapes
- Bring your schoolProjects — the whole kind
- Work with us on itDelhi I Can't See You
- Work with us on itFood systems, with UNEP
- Work with us on itNo more Waste Hills
- Work with us on itNo Plastic
- Work with us on itSustainable Shopping
- Work with us on itThis Girl Can
What you would
be giving to
Giving money to an organisation is the one moment its registration number matters more than its name.
Swechha We for Change Foundation
The registered name. Everywhere else the organisation is Swechha. The long one belongs to the registrar.
Khirki Extension, New Delhi
The office. The farm is ninety minutes out at Ladpuri and has its own page.
Working since 2000
Twenty-six years on the river, in schools, and on the land.
Registered under sections 12A and 80G
Indian tax registration. A gift is deductible; ask about a receipt at the address below.
FCRA held
Foreign contributions may be received, which is the fact that decides whether a conversation can start at all.
Where an ask
actually goes
Three ways in, one door out: a person reads what you send and writes back.
Write
Giving, volunteering and partnership all start here — say which one you mean, and roughly when.
The register of work
Fifteen pages across projects, campaigns, journeys and events — every one of them more specific than anything here.
What it has added up to
Every figure Swechha holds, programme by programme.
Who receives it
The people, the governing body, and the language the organisation uses about itself.