The emancipation of poverty through education and child rights for children of marginalized communities. Also reaching out to every child of Meerut district and other areas through a 24 hour free telephone helpline, a project by the Government of India.
Sustainable use of natural resources, to ensure that our environment does not pose a risk to human health, and can sustain an appropriate and diverse wildlife.
Empowerment of marginalized communities to improve their own environment and safeguarding their human rights.
Water quality protection and provision of safe drinking water, water Resource Conservation and provision of safe, sufficient and sustainable water resources for all
Restored and protected agricultural land, providing nutritious and healthy food sustainably, for current and future generations.
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Rain Water HarvestingOur country gets about 4000 billion cubic meters of water from the sky. Out of which only about one-fourth of this is actually usable, as the rest runs off into the sea and evaporates. This quantum remains more or less constant, though there are regional variations subject to local landforms and rock structures. Whatever we could do for impounding water has been done to a large extent, there are about 4500 large dams in our country and thousands of small water-holding structures. Over the last century or so, India’s population has quadrupled. The average availability of usable water has correspondingly decreased from about 6000 cubic meter per capita per day to 1500 to 1800 meter per capita per day. Since ages, natural water bodies have been satisfying the quench, of the inhabitants of this state. Unfortunately, in the last 4-5 decades owing to negligence and greed of ‘we’ the consumers, fresh water resources have witnessed a considerable decline in their water quality and quantity. The ever-increasing groundwater depletion is a major threat to people. Studies have revealed that there is a decrease of 1ft. to 4ft. annually in the ground water level of this region. We have to stop being the victims of the vagaries of nature, it calls for tightening our belts and starting a mass revolution. Realizing this, Janhit Foundation since 2003 has started working towards it by promoting Rain water Harvesting. Since then 55 rain water harvesting structures have been set up in Meerut. Country’s second Rain Centre has been set up by the organization. This is a platform for a permanent exhibition house that seeks to spread water literacy among urban Indians. It defines the role played by every Indian citizen in harvesting rainwater and using it to combat the menace of water scarcity. The Rain Centre is intended to be a museum and a laboratory rolled into one. As a museum, it intends to showcase how an installed Rainwater Harvesting system works. Here one can get pamphlets, important publication fliers and buy books on rainwater harvesting. It is also equipped with National reports, thesis, important dissertations, water atlas and other important publications. As a laboratory, it is intended, to demonstrate a working version of the Rainwater Harvesting. It also collects and displays statistics of how much rain water has been accumulated over time. In future it will have a water testing facility on site wherein people can test the purity of water. A staff member of Janhit Foundation has been trained in rainwater harvesting techniques by experts from the Central Groundwater Board (Govt. of India). Some of the common queries that play on the minds of people are, What is rain water harvesting? Does it work? Can we harvest rain in our own house? Who benefits? What will be the quality of water? How much does it cost? To put it simply, Rain water harvesting means catching and holding rain where it falls and using it. We can store it in tanks or can use it to recharge groundwater.
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