Achievements
Since 1992, OzGREEN has travelled to India more than 20 times
We have involved in a range of projects including:
- Providing training and water quality testing equipment to the Sankat Mochan Foundation to establish the Swatcha Ganga Research Laboratory
- Filming the Swatcha Ganga video (winner of United Nations Media Peace Prize) 1994
- Establishing Friends of the Ganges Australia in 1994
- Participating in a 60 Minutes (Australia) film story about Swatcha Ganga Campaign
- Establishing the Swatcha Ganga Environmental Education Centre at Tulsi Ghat 1999.
- Designing and raising funds for mini-tube wells.
- Installing numerous mini tube wells in a number of villages to provide clean drinking water benefiting over 10,000 people.
- Delivering youth action river programs involving hundreds of Benares school children
- Speaking about the Sankat Mochan Fountation at a TEDX talk in California
- Engaging over 4,000 youth in other environmental leadership programs since 2002
- Training 50 YOUth LEADing the World Facilitators in Varanasi
- Upgrading the Swatcha Ganga Research Laboratory in 2018
- Helping to establish a new Mothers for Mother group to engage women in the campaign for Clean Ganga