Environmental Wellbeing

The need to safeguard environmental sustainability and maintain ecological balance are at the heart of HCL’s efforts of conservation. It has successfully driven programs on its own and in close partnership with agencies to plant reforest areas in Rohtak (Haryana), Sitarganj (Uttarakhand), Sriperumbudur (Tamil Nadu), Chinchwad and Sanaswadi (Maharashtra). Through its river cleaning programs near Pune, it works to not only lower the pollution from sewage and industrial effluents already let into the rivers but also raise awareness about preventing contamination all together.

HCL has undertaken various activities that cater to the hygiene and sanitation in largely underserved communities. These include the construction of large and small basic amenities in village schools around silvassa like construction of water tanks and toilets, an eye camp in Mumbai, a river cleaning project in Pune as well as mid day meal programs in orphanages around Mumbai.

HCL’s passion project brings together quality yoga teachers from the best centres of learning and young children from the most underserved parts of society. The Orphanage Project started with one orphanage and steadily scaled up to twenty-three in about a year’s time. The core strategy has dual purpose – it aims to bring the meditative benefits of yoga to help focus young minds as well as develop the next generation of yoga teachers. Given the rapidly growing popularity of yoga and the greater emphasis on preventive healthcare throughout the country and the world, there will be an increasing demand for teachers trained in the intricacies of the practice. In association with other more formal certifications for yoga, it’s short term outlook is to provide an alternate means of livelihood for the children. The mid-term outlook ambitiously intends to connect with one thousand orphanages around the world, generating a self-sustaining business model. It is keen to touch millions of lives.