Non-Profit Volunteering

At CURE, I was able to hone my skills in analyzing issues faced in urban sanitation and develop an understanding on various tenets of the solid waste management process and community building within informal settlements in Delhi.

Here, I conducted first hand respondent surveys at many slum sites under the East Delhi Municipal Corporation, namely Ambedkar Camp in Jhilmil and Hasanpur Parts 1 and 2 near Hasanpur depot in East Delhi.

This experience taught me to be more humane and sensitive about the issues faced by residents of urban settlements, especially those in the lower-income strata of society.

This was a mega emmission inventory campaign, 'SAFAR' (System of Air quality- weather Forecasting And Research) under The Ministry of Earth Sciences supported by 'ENVIS' (Environmental Information System), subsidiary of The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India.

This was organised as a joint venture of IITM (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune) and School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. Bagged the Best Volunteer Award among 150 participant volunteers who formed a part of the campaign.