In a tie-up/partnership with Enactus, the largest experiential learning international platform working towards developing NextGen Leaders with a business head and a heart for the world. Prabhaav has partnered to implement some of their entrepreneurial projects:

 

Enactus Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies (PROJECT  Tahsin) -  This project of VIPS  aims at reducing the garbage dumps from katran (small pieces of fabric left after garments are created). The effort is to recycle this textile waste and create useful, attractive products. The products are created by a team of women from the weaker section who are excited about the financial growth and opportunity to showcase their creative skills. The katran is collected from local designers. Small fabrics are then combined together, made attractive by adding laces, beads and buttons to create useful products like scrunchies, toilet bags, sanitary pad pouches, shopping bags, fashion jewelry  etc. These products are very popular with the college going girls and have been displayed by the girls in their college festival stalls.

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Enactus Shri Ram College of Commerce  (Project Aarogya) Menstruation hygiene

Prabhaav Foundation associated with the Enactus of SRCC in their project which aims at educating the urban - rural women on the need to understand the significance of menstrual hygiene. The project aims to address the issue of improper menstrual hygiene and lack of accessibility of sanitary pads in urban slums of Delhi NCR. The main idea is to make women aware of the importance of menstrual hygiene, make available to them affordable sanitary pads by removing the middleman who makes profit of this basic need of the fairer sex and also ways of disposing them off in a way as not to add to the garbage dump /landfill.The  target beneficiaries not only avail free sanitary pads but also knowledge of keeping a healthy menstrual hygiene.

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• ENACTUS DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (PROJECT UNNATI)/ DIGITAL CAFE -  Imparting Digital Literacy skills especially during Covid-19 pandemic where the concept of work from home, order from home, has affected the lives, realities of individuals & communities in multiple ways across all the generations and every strata of the society. Many are unable to access technology due to a lack of skills, further exacerbating existing Socio-economic inequalities, 90% of the Indian population is digitally illiterate. Reaching out to the lower strata to make them digitally literate gave birth to the concept of Project Unnati.

 

Further, DTU’s Enactus PROJECT UNNATI works towards digital literacy, employment opportunities, and training and ensures that every person can benefit maximum from the services offered. These Unnati, multipurpose cafes, set up in rural and suburban areas act as the nodal agency, implementing programs and courses.

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Prabhaav launched its first skill development center “UNNATI Café” at Masoodpur Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, under the CSR initiative of Acuity Knowledge Partner. At Unnati Café courses offered are Basic Digital Literacy, Financial Literacy, Basic English, and a bouquet of skill development courses (structured by DTU Enactus).

 

• Protecting and preserving our environment has always been a top priority of the members of the foundation. To leave behind a healthy ecosystem for our future generations. We cannot repair/undo the harm already caused to our environment over the ages but we surely can stop any further damage.

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Farmers in north India use an intensive rice-wheat rotation system in their fields. The residue commonly called parali or stubble left by these harvesters after reaping the crop takes about one and a half months to decompose, a gap too long to sow the next crop, resulting in burning the stubble. This burning emits fine particulate matter, an air pollutant that is a concern for people’s health.

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The young minds at Enactus thought of novel ideas to deal with this menace.

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The solutions arrived at by ENACTUS SHAHEED SUKHDEV COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STUDIES (PROJECT PRAVAAH) crafted FULLY LOADED PLANTERS. The stubble along with a few natural ingredients like cow dung are used to line the clay pots to create these planters. This combination provides a super nutrient lining packed with high levels of minerals and a solution to the city's water crisis, as the stubble holds in itself water which keeps the plant moist longer.

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The solutions arrived at by ENACTUS HANSRAJ (PROJECT VRIDDHI) crafted HEAT COMPACTED WOODEN BOARDS. Leftover agri-residue boards can avoid CHG (greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, all fluorinated gases) emission by about 50-75% and replace wood – a valuable commodity that saves so many trees from being cut. The boards made out of stubble can vary in thickness from 4 to 20 millimetres, are sturdy, and can be used for construction purposes. We at Prabhaav are supporting the process of making boards from this agri residue.

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​​ENACTUS SHAHEED BHAGAT SINGH COLLEGE( PROJECT SAFAR) / Tyre Furniture/

Discarded tyres are often just burnt adding to air pollution. Our project utilises them to create elegant, stylish furniture along with planters that add to the beauty of gardens, terraces, and balconies. This furniture made of recycled tyres is resistant to all kinds of weather changes, is rust-proof, and termite proof and can be used both outdoors and indoors guaranteeing longevity.

 

Small but effective attempts to keep the air that we breathe clean.