Till date, four cohorts of educators have been accepted into the program, with a total of 19 partner organizations representing the states of Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, J&K, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland Chattisgarh, Goa and Assam. Between them, we have been able to directly work with more than 200 government and private schools in these regions in the domains of Biodiversity, Waste, and Water, and engage with local communities on areas like citizen science, local biodiversity registers, and learning from nature.
Collaborating with organizations that share our commitment to sustainability and education.
Wasima has completed her Master’s in Ecological Restoration from Dibrugarh University.. She has experience of working in the field of organic farming. She has joined Aaranyak as a Sustainable Educator and it has provided her the opportunity of working on sustainability with the youth and communities of the state and making them realize the profile and importance of nature and natural resources. She is passionate about studying animal behaviours, habitat preservation and wildlife conservation and environmental science as well.
Aaranyak, a non-profit, non-governmental organization registered under Societies Regulation Act XXI of 1860. It is recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research of Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Aaranyak (www.aaranyak.org) works in close cooperation and partnership with the local communities, civil society organisations and government agencies to achieve its conservation goals.
Since its inception in 1989, Aaranyak has been working to promote conservation of biodiversity in eastern Himalayas and Northeastern India through research and monitoring, environment and sustainability education & outreach, conservation livelihood, advocacy for legal as well as policy reform to lead a new era of ecological security. Aaranyak is anchored on a firm research and development base that is supplemented by toiling in the field to achieve conservation goals. Currently the organization has 14 Divisions and one species recovery program which form the core of its conservation strategy.
Bishal Nowbagh is from Roing, Lower Dibang Valley District of Arunachal Pradesh. He has completed his bachelors from Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam. He is currently working with AMYAA NGO in community welfare and STEM education. His interests are travelling, exploring new places and meeting new people from all over.
AMYAA NGO is a non-governmental organization, with its head office based in Roing, Arunachal Pradesh. It believes in working with and for the tribal communities for their holistic development. This social transformation society was registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860, on June 28, 2002. AMYAA is currently serving communities in Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur. AMYAA’s core work is in the space of Education, Human Rights Protection, Environment, Livelihood and Skill Development of local youths.
Harshada is a trained Zoologist with seven years of experience in conducting and implementing biodiversity-based research and three years working closely with the communities in Goa. She has engaged with students from more than 60 schools across Goa, taking the message of nature, environment, conservation, and sustainable living to them. Currently she is engaged as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology at Government college of Arts Science and Commerce – Sanquelim, Goa and is the founder and president of Arannya environment research organization and Secretary of Goa bird conservation network.
Arannya Environment Research Organisation was founded by a group of like-minded youngsters from Goa, India’s smallest state with the aim of connecting the young generation with nature, to explore and experience the rich natural heritage of the state and work towards wildlife conservation, Environment and sustainability through research, education, outreach and action.
Dhiraj coordinates the K-12 educational program of Aripana Foundation and supports the Aripana Fellows. In addition to that, he also plays an active role in the ‘Development of Maithili tools and technology’ project. Before joining Aripana, Dhiraj was associated with Going to School, where he worked with school-students to enhance their entrepreneurial and 21st-century skills. Prior to this, he was associated with the Piramal Foundation where he worked with the children of underprivileged sections of society in Thane and Mumbai, to enhance their learning capabilities and skills through various innovative learning methods. He had also successfully raised funds and set up learning centers for the students of slum areas in Mumbai. Dhiraj has a degree in Education and a Bachelors in Science.
Rupam is an Aripana Education Fellow. Before joining the Fellowship, Rupam had over ten years of work experience, including six years as a teacher. She has a degree in Education and a Masters in the Arts. Rupam has played a critical role in supporting teachers and students of Mithila to participate in Earthian, since 2021. Her determination and hard work helped teams from Mithila to be shortlisted as winning entries in Earthian 2021.
Anjali is an Aripana Education Fellow. She is especially interested in setting up and harnessing the potential of libraries in schools and science education. She also has an interest in law and policy. Anjali has played a critical role in supporting teachers and students of Mithila to participate in Earthian, since 2021. Her determination and hard work helped teams from Mithila to be shortlisted as winning entries in Earthian 2021.
Piyush is a zoology graduate from Magadh University, Bodhgaya and a Sustainability practitioner. He is currently a Program Officer for Aripana Foundation where he is leading the Wipro Earthian Project and serving as a Sustainability educator. Being a Zoology graduate and his interest in Environment education, he is done course on Sustainability in Indian Context from Azim Premji University and is passionate to create a cohort of environment cautious future generation and hence, is working to emphasize sustainability education among children and their community. Along with this he is contributing in the Aripana Education Fellowship vertical in Darbhanga district to improve the quality of education with the help of Aripana Fellows and empowers the leadership and sustainability education competencies among the fellows.
Raghu comes with close to 10 years of experience in the private as well as Development sector. He is a local youth from Madhubani and is deeply interested in the improvement of school education in this region. In his previous role, he has worked closely with Govt. Teachers, Block Education Officer, District Education officer etc. and organized and facilitated teachers’ training, field-coordinators’ training etc. He is interested in helping students (and teachers) to think out of the box and take responsibility of finding feasible solutions for their local issues themselves. He is very keen to take the Wipro earthian program to local schools, build his own capacity and encourage students to think about local environmental issues of the region and work on them. Because of his interest in Education, he has completed a 2-year Bachelor of Education programme and also has a Masters in Development.
Aripana Foundation is a grassroots NGO based in Darbhanga, that is working to improve education in government schools in the Mithila region of North Bihar (which comprises of Darbhanga and a few neighbouring districts such as Madhubani and Saharsa). A few of Aripana’s areas of work have been the following-
Wipro Sustainability Educator’s Program whereby, it is strengthening environment and sustainability education in schools of Mithila.
Maithil Youth Empowerment Program, to encourage, guide and support interested and capable youth from Mithila to apply for suitable degrees / courses, fellowships, in the field of Education and Development.
Project Lemon-Choos: Creating children’s literature in Maithil
Digangana started off as a sub-editor for national and regional newspapers, during her tenure as a sub-editor she edited stories on environment and politics. After completing five years in the media, she joined the Hummingbird school, Majuli in 2019, where she worked as a teacher, where she encouraged students to learn more about the environment and how socially aware, we should all be when it comes to protecting it. Soon after she joined Ayang as a Mental Health coordinator where she had to organize mental health camps on a monthly basis.
Ayang — ‘love’ in the language of the Mising tribe — is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation in Majuli, Assam, transforming marginalized communities of North East India by creating equal opportunities through education, health-care, and livelihood. The Hummingbird School, now the heart of Ayang’s initiatives, marked the beginning. The idea was to facilitate a contextual and holistic education for the children of Majuli, in close engagement with the local community. Begun in January 2017, Hummingbird soon emerged as the informal hub inspiring a social conversation seeking to address diverse developmental needs of Majuli’s people. And, Ayang evolved from this shared dialogue to be registered as an NGO in November 2017.
Imcharenla has joined the Wipro earthian Program as the Sustainability Educator for the Nagaland Chapter in May 2022 under Community Educational Centre Society (CECS). She has been working as an educator for over 7 years in schools, colleges, institutions and the community. An avid book reader, who loves knitting and craft, she hopes to make use of her interests and passion towards encouraging and motivating the community through this program.
Community Educational Centre Society (CECS) began in 2005 with the aim to alleviate and strengthen marginalized children through formal and informal education. Over the years the organization has evolved and has broadened its work from education, to health care, to advocating of child rights, women empowerment and an overall community development. Joining the network of Sustainability Ecducators this year, they plan to work towards increasing sustainability practices within the communities they operate in. CECS with the strength of 120+ staff operates in three districts of Nagaland i.e. Dimapur, Chumukedima and Mokokchung with its Head office in Dimapur. The organization now works hand in hand with other NGOs, State and Central Governments.
A passionate Naturalist and Nature photographer. Masters in sociology and IPROMO Diploma from Turin & Tusica University, Italy. Worked for National and International environment and development organizations such as Earthwatch Institute, Adventure Links and Central Himalayan Environment Association (CHEA) Experience in leading expeditions related to Avifauna, Himalayan Expeditions, Wildlife expeditions and Citizen science expeditions. Experience of developing eco-tourism in Himalaya. Leads citizen science and eco-tourism projects at CHINAR.
“Wipro Earthian Educators Program has been a special experience for me. Through this program I got an opportunity to work among the students and to share my experience with them. It has been a wonderful experience overall”
CHINAR is a research and development organization which is mainly dedicated for mountain development which includes environmental sustainability, livelihoods improvement of mountain communities, conservation and promotion of culture, documentation and promotion of traditional knowledge system and research in the
mountains
Ashish has a passion to develop and implement creative hands on training sessions, awareness building that reaches everyone’s learning style and ability in various fields such as Green Skills, Disaster Management, IT & Logistics. He started his career as a Biomedical Engineer but over the last 8 years he has molded it to become a Trainer and Operations Manager. As a Vocational trainer he has created spaces for sustainability education in schools and conducted activity based learning programs in 2 Government Senior Secondary Schools and skilled around 60 students.
Shrey is working with people to building harmony between self & nature while collectively exploring the hidden world of microbes. He has created 30 unique content to simplify the science of microbes and connect that to sustainable living. His goal is to support people so that their 1st action builds into a sustainable habit. He has also Co-founded Volunteer for India & Solan Organic Farmers Market.
“Earthjust is an organisation/platform promoting sustainable living practices. They believe that the individual has the power to make the environment around him more sustainable and co-thinking and collaborate with individuals, households, institutions and communities in making them more sustainable in their practices. EarthJust believes that non-sustainable actions lead to disaster and that building an ecosystem that supports collaborators to move from awareness to inducing action till they are able to build habit through easily do-able practices that help connect the head, heart and hand. They aim to create a swacch, sundar, swasth, saksham, samriddh, sanyukt, satat – samaj.”
Has a Master’s in Social Work. He has close to 10 years of experience in the social and environment sectors. He has worked in various capacities on areas such as Human rights, Panchayati Raj, Social welfare, Joint forest management, Formation and capacity building of forest societies, Management of natural resources and change in the living standards of the people and preparation of participatory rural survey and micro planning at village level etc. He has also worked as a Social Mobilizer for the Wild Ass Sanctuary, Dhrangdhra, Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihood Improvement Project, for the Dy. Conservator Of Forest BCRLIP Society, Gujarat.
GFF are a group of environment conservation professionals with more than 20 years of committed conservation work in various landscapes of India. The team is focused on studying all aspects of the ecosystem- from mammals, reptiles, corals etc., all the way through farming techniques, local fishing, sustainable livelihoods, alternate farming systems and ways of life.
Divya has an M.Sc in Botany and a B.Ed in Natural Science. She is presently working as an educator and is currently engaged in a School Science Program where she is mentoring students to focus on science related research activities. She is working in 8 schools of Wayanad district. She believes in motivating students to lead a healthy and sustainable life by conserving nature and natural resources.
Hume Centre for Ecology and Wildlife Biology is an initiative of a group of wildlife conservationists and researchers to work for the protection of ecosystems and wildlife of India. The Centre is named after the late Mr. A.O Hume, the British naturalist who laid the foundations of Indian ornithology. The centre was established in the year 2005, based in Kalpetta, Wayanad district of Kerala, one of the biodiversity rich regions in the Western Ghats.
Shahnawaz is a professionally trained social worker. In the last 6 years Shahnawaz has worked on issues and rights of forest dwellers and vulnerable communities. Shahnawaz’s key interest areas are environment sustainability, child rights and health.
Jammu & Kashmir Association of Social Workers – JKASW is Non-governmental, Developmental organisation working in the UT of J & K from past 15 Years. The core work of JKASW is around child education sustainability. JKASW envisages to create replicable models of intervention to bring change in lives of children and communities they live in.
Thutan is from Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. Her hobbies are cleaning, gardening and teaching.
She is a part of the Jhamtse Gatsal community. She believes that we cannot maintain our Earth’s ecosystems or continue to function as we do if more sustainable choices are not made. She wants to be a change-maker in the community and live in harmony with the planet and practice “net zero living”. She also wants to work on finding solutions to many growing global issues, including poverty.
Jhamtse Gatsal Children’s Community is a home, school and lifelong learning centre for orphaned, abandoned, and vulnerable children ranging from toddlers through college age. It is located in the remote district of Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. Jhamtse Gatsal means Garden of Love and Compassion in the local language. Our focus is on nurturing children with the wisdom to guide, compassion to nurture and skill to serve all sentient beings and planet Earth.
Riddhima is a development practitioner with a deep interest in environment education and sustainability. She presently works at Nature Science Initiative on the Nature Vidya Environment Education program that is working across Uttarakhand state. Her core strengths include content development and communication. She is also a co-founder at Do-No Trash, a Dehradun based citizen group focused on addressing waste management and sustainable living.
NSI was set up to strengthen networks of researchers and institutions based in North India, in order to facilitate long-term research and biodiversity conservation programs. Presently NSI runs programs on environment education and citizen science communication called Nature Vidya and Do-No Trash respectively.
Tajamul Akhtar is from Thasgam Drass, Kargil. She holds a postgraduate degree in Social Work with a specialization in Mental Health from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Tajamul currently works as the Project Lead at Navikru Eco Foundation. She is passionate about conducting group sessions, community engagement, and awareness programs related to the environment, mental health, and menstrual health. Tajamul also loves exploring new areas. Before joining Navikru, she worked as a menstrual hygiene instructor with another organization.
Preeti a social development entrepreneur by profession, a civil engineer by qualification, an environmentalist by belief, and a zero-waste practitioner by passion. A Mumbai girl at heart, her journey from being a corporate employee to being a social entrepreneur in Ladakh, India, has been an amalgamation of adventure with self-reflection and awakening.
Navikru Eco Foundation is a subsidiary of Little Green World is a social enterprise and an environmental consulting organization that works with institutes, schools, and villages; and helps them conserve resources and achieve zero waste. The foundation is a section-8, not-for-profit organization. Under this organization, Corporate Social Responsibility projects in India are undertaken.
Serlibon is from Dongkamukam, West Karbi Anglong district in Assam. She completed her graduation from Hojai College in Assam and belongs to a Karbi community.
She has been a fellow at Green Hub in 2016-2017. In 2018, she, along with the local youth in her community came together and formed a collective “Youth for Nature, Dongkamukam” with the aim to work towards protecting nature. The collective also launched a campaign “Save Karpu” “Save Pangolin” in February 2021, since then they have been working on saving the Pangolin. The collective also started community based eco-tourism in Langminso village, in Dongkamukam. Here in collaboration with Green hub the collective initiated “forest project” as a pilot, with the aim of rejuvenating forest and trying to provide an alternative source of income for the people. Through North East Network and Green hub, she also helped women in the community earn a livelihood through weaving.
Apart from nature conservation, she is also a part of the Karbi literature group, where she and the local youth work to promote and bring awareness among the community to protect and preserve karbi language, through organising a karbi hirjir/hirbang amei, or karbi poet/literature festival every year. She also has a keen interest in teaching. She believes that through this ‘Sustainability Education Program’ she will be able to explore and use her expertise better.
Lokesh belongs to the Miju Mishmi Tribe, which is one of the sub tribe of Mishmi (Degaru, Idu and Miju). He is from the Pukhuri village Lohit district in Arunachal Pradesh.
After graduation, Lokesh with his group of friends formed a social group named, ICARE and through this they have been working with youths and community people. The group has conducted social awareness campaigns against Opium, campaigns for plantations, cleanliness drive, inter school educational competitions, etc. and have been working with the community since 2015.
Being a part of Wipro’s Earthian Programme , helped him to serve his purpose as a Green Educator. Apart from working with the schools for the submissions to the Wipro earthian competition, he organized activities with the schools and in the village community.
Goldenstar belongs to the Khasi tribes and resides in Meghalaya in North East India.
Along with his community who are connected to nature they continue to work together for conservation of natural resources and working for regeneration of forest by planting trees and enforcing village power towards conservation initiatives.
Goldenstar is also a member of Mawthawpdah Area Rilang Fishing Association and as the local people he and his group of community members are taking care of the fish sanctuary in the village. Also as a Member of Iatylli Eco-organisation they work to conserve and to educate people about the importance of their surrounding ecosystems.
Being a part of Wipro’s earthian Programme , has helped him serve his purpose as a Green Educator and has helped in adding more insights and value to all the activities he has been doing with the community from the beginning. He has, along with the Deputy Commissioner of South West Khasi Hills, started work as a Green Volunteer.
North East Network is a women’s rights organisation working for women irrespective of their diversity and regardless of ethnicity, sexual/gender identity disability, culture and space. NEN also connects to different civil society organisations on development and social justice issues within North East India.
Sunil is a Physics graduate, interested in project based science and nature education. He has been working with Samavesh since January 2016. He works with the children, teachers and community members of Bhopal in the field of education with the issues of environment and sustainability. He developed 15 science clubs and libraries in the slum areas of Bhopal which are run by the children and in which children learn science through projects. Along with it, he also takes the children on regular exposure visits. He developed a few simple models and science kits to teach basic science in the classroom with hands-on experiments.
Samavesh Society for Development & Governance, set up in 2003, has a vision to link education to comprehensive processes of development and governance. The objective is to create an environment in which vulnerable people, especially from amongst Tribals, Dalits and women make efforts for an equitable & democratic society.
Samavesh develops comprehensive approaches to provide academic support to schools, builds capacity of community members to monitor public facilities, and strengthens local governance. In partnership with the Government Samavesh works closely with education functionaries at cluster, block & district levels to enhance their capacities & provide them a motivating environment. Samavesh has a long experience of working directly with government schools and administration, as well as surrounding communities. Presently Samavesh is working in six districts- Panna, Sagar, Bhopal, Dewas, Harda & Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh and reaches more than 2200 primary schools, covering over one lac children.
Samavesh focuses on marginalised sections of the community, especially women, youth and children. Network of women groups from village to block/district level provides strength and confidence to women to assert their position in decision making processes from home to district as well as they attain economic and social liberty too. At present Samavesh is working in three districts – Panna, Dewas and Harda of Madhya Pradesh with more than 5000 women through 400 SHGs and 90 Village level women forums called Sakhi Manch.
Gautam Jha currently handles Shiksharth’s STEM Education initiative called Jigyasa. He has been working on this since 2016 and currently manages the team serving 1200+ children. As part of Jigyasa, he has been doing nature-based workshops and is interested in exploring interconnectedness of STEM and Ecology education.
Shiksharth is a not-for-profit organisation developing contextual and comprehensive positive childhood experiences for children coming from spaces of conflict and adverse geography by strengthening classroom instruction, community engagement and system support in an integrated approach. Currently we are based out of the tribal Chhattisgarh in Sukma district and Bastar division of Chhattisgarh in collaboration with the local administration. Shiksharth has been working in Sukma since 2015 with proximity of problem in an immersive mode and currently serve 8000+ children in the region.
Born to the family of nature scientist Sarita has groomed herself to become a sustainability educator. Educational qualifications include a masters in Biodiversity, PG diploma in sustainable natural resource management and B. Ed. She has an extensive experience as researcher, educator and trainer in various areas, be it sanitation, Biodiversity documentation and ethnobotany, inculcating the sustainability values in next generation and overall pedagogy including project based learning, problem solving and collaborative learning. She also holds interest in traditional and contemporary crafts and explores them as a means of sustainability education.
With this background she also tries to reach out masses through an initiative to conduct sustainable living foundation course and allied activities.
‘Vayam’, the name of our organisation is a Sanskrit word that means ‘all of us’. It denotes our belief in inclusion of not only human beings, but of all living beings in this idea of ‘we’ or ‘Vayam’. Vayam is a movement for making leaders at roots: for democracy and environment.
We work towards empowering village assemblies and Communities with knowledge of PESA and BDA . The results are seen in formation of PBR , protection of community forest, watershed management and check on distress migration.
Sanjay is from Pawalgarh conservation reserve. He has a bachelor’s in commerce. After attending an Uttarakhand Spring Bird Festival in 2015 he become interested in flora and fauna of the region, he later undertook training under Titli trust and Pawalgarh Prakrati Prahari on Nature guiding. He is currently working as a naturalist and volunteer with other NGO’s in awareness programs on nature conservation in and around Pawalgarh Conservation Reserve.
Bhaskar spent most his my time in the field of nature conservation by taking part in various awareness camps organised by Camp Hornbill. Along with the village youths has also actively takes part in forest fire activities in the fire season every year with forest department. He is a member of Kyari welfare society where he volunteers for the waste management and noise control caused by DJ systems in various hotels within the village of Kyari.
TITLI TRUST is a not-for-profit nature conservation organisation based in Dehradun, India. It is primarily focussed on conservation and livelihoods in the Himalayas. Community-led nature tours to Pakke,Eaglenest, Garo Hills in NE India and Pawalgarh, Devalsari & Naina Devi in W Himalayas.
Pawalgarh Prakrati Prahari (PPP), a not-for-profit nature conservation society, was formed in Pawalgarh Conservation Reserve, Nainital District, Uttarakhand in Dec 2015. The main objective of the society is to support nature conservation, environment protection and sustainable living by promoting alternate livelihoods such as ecotourism through village homestays, nature tours with experienced guides and promoting local produce and cuisine in the landscape of the Pawalgarh Conservation Reserve in Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India
Pritika M is one of the co-founders of Ficus. She completed her Masters in Computational Biology and is a practitioner of permaculture farming and working with horses using natural horsemanship. As someone who was ‘raised by libraries’, she works to make Ficus as a space to support the necessary literacy required for accessing, making and expressing informed perspectives, alongside experiencing the collective joy of spotting sunbirds and making animal art.
Ficus is a non-profit organization working in Chennai to identify small school communities where middle school student dropout rates are high due to a lack of inclusive learning spaces. Ficus works by providing teacher and student support in ensuring classroom spaces are sensitive towards diverse learning needs. Ficus works with teachers to create the necessary learning tools to empower students to make sense of what is being taught in their textbooks, in relation to their everyday lives. This is achieved using a mix of art, nature and library-based pedagogies. Outside classroom spaces, Ficus is a member of the Climate Action Collective in the city, working alongside other youth groups to advocate for climate affected communities.
Nobina Gupta is a social arts practitioner, researcher, educator, the founder director of Disappearing Dialogues Collective. Over a career spanning 29 years, she has initiated and curated interdisciplinary interactions that engage different communities, institutions and social groups through interactive artworks, heritage mapping, research and documentation. These are collaborative activities that seek to conserve cultural, social and environmental losses, sediments and memories intrinsic to a fragile socio-spatial landscape.
An alumnus of Kala Bhavan, Santineketan, and a NET scholar, her works have always been centred around ecology and sustainability. She seeks to raise vital questions – reimagining relationships, creating dialogues between water, waste and wetlands, initiating co-creation and co-production, and breaking norms to disseminate research and community-based grounded learnings, focusing on process, practice and everyday life.
Anushka Chakraborty has completed her masters from Serampore College in Botany. Thereafter she has worked in wildlife based NGO’s and has got exposure in various projects like building biodiversity gardens, conducting species survey, eco-landscape designing and organising different workshops and hands on training sessions. She aims to pursue my career as a botanist and intend to research more about plant and animal interactions and interdependencies.
Disappearing Dialogues Collective (dD) works in different communities and social groups through interdisciplinary arts practices. The core areas of dD’s focus lie at the intersection of arts, education and the environment – using collaborative processes that lead to transformative trajectories of experience, knowledge sharing and awareness building.
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