Mangaluru, Dec 1: City based not-for-profit organisation Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation has been granted with the prestigiousIndia Youth Fund Award' by UN-Habitat &NarotamSekhsaria Foundation. The award was given for APD's Smart SwacchaMangaluru (SSM) project for SWM during the Young Social Innovators Conclave 2016 held in Mumbai on 15th November.
APD Foundation's founder Abdullah A. Rehman received the award certificate from PadminiSomani, Director, NarotamSekhsaria Foundation. The award will also include funding of the awarded project of up to Rs. 8 Lakhs.
Mangaluru's APD Foundation was one among seven recipients to be selected for the award out of the 550 applicants from across the country. The other recipients are: (1) Awaaj Jan KalyanSamhiti, Bhopal, (2) MicroX Foundation, Delhi, (3) Green Cross India, Trivandrum, (4) Born2Win Social Welfare Trust, Chennai, (5) Shaishav Gujarat and (6) Friends Union for Energizing Lives, Pune in different categories.
SSM is a programme to achieve segregation at source through targeted campaigns, workshops and training programmes. It will be executed side by side with APD's current IEC campaign which is conducted along with Antony Waste Handling Cell Pvt. Ltd.
“In the coming months through workshops and toolkits, we aim to actively help schools, colleges, government buildings; offices, malls etc., to adopt sustainable waste management techniques,” says Sobia, urban planner at SensingLocal.
“This conversion strategy is adopted in cities like Taiwan, Japan, Singapore& London. To introduce this program to Mangaluru will be a great challenge. So we hope this award for Mangaluru city will encourage the citizens to actively participate in waste segregation and work jointly to achieve the cleanest city tag for Mangaluru city,” says Rehman.
To achieve this project APD has engaged SWM experts SensingLocalto execute the project, the city ULB (MCC) is supporting the initiative by APD by their active participation in the IEC programmes jointly conducted by APD & AWHCPL.
Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation was founded on October 2 2014 to spearhead a crusade against air pollutioncaused by smoke emitting vehicles and thereby to ensure a safe, clean and sustainable environment for healthy living.
The drive aims to wake the conscience of people by emphasising the problem in hand, connecting & aggregating professionals from different fields to address the crisis, meeting officials to capture & fill the gaps in the system, producing actionable data & proof regarding the health impact & levels of air pollution.
APD Foundation has also initiated Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities along with Antony Waste Handling Cell Pvt. Ltd. on Solid Waste Management in the city on behalf of Mangalore City Corporation towards the Swaccha Mangaluru mission.
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