Campaigns for Change: Grassroots Advocacy in Gurugram
From market plastic bans to tackling landfill fires, we are hitting the streets of Gurugram. Join our community-led campaigns to stop waste before it starts and hold our city’s systems accountable.
A shocking view of the Bandhwari landfill on fire. This is a direct consequence of unsegregated waste and a powerful motivator for our mission to make Gurgaon landfill-free.
Climate change is not a distant threat. This video of a flash flood in Uttarkashi shows the devastating impact of deforestation and unsustainable development.
Is it pleasant weather or a disaster? We break down how unseasonal rains are a warning sign of climate change, affecting our crops, economy, and health.
Our volunteers at a local Wednesday market, distributing reusable newspaper bags to vendors and encouraging them to renounce the single-use plastic tradition.
The next generation spreading the vital message. Students join our market campaign with handmade signs, urging people to reduce, reuse, and refuse single-use plastic.
This Independence Day, we reached out to schools in Gurgaon to promote balloon-free celebrations, using beautiful and reusable decor like cloth buntings and paper art instead.
We collect dry waste and old clothes from communities to ensure they are responsibly recycled or reused, preventing them from ending up in our overflowing landfills.
We stand in solidarity with Ladakh. Our community, including kids, came together to make posters and amplify Sonam Wangchuk's voice in the fight for climate action.
A close-up of our volunteers with a local vendor, providing alternatives to plastic bags and building relationships within the community.
We don't just talk to vendors; we engage with customers too. Here, a volunteer explains the importance of carrying your own bag for shopping.
About Campaigns for Change
When you join our Wednesday Market campaigns, you aren't just handing out flyers. We actively work with local vendors to replace single-use plastic bags with newspaper alternatives, directly reducing the volume of waste that heads to the Bandhwari landfill. It is messy, real-world work that happens in the middle of the bustle, and we show you exactly how to talk to vendors to make the switch actually stick.
Taking Back Our City
Our campaigns aren't about theoretical changes. They are about the dust on our shoes and the conversations we have on the ground. When the Bandhwari landfill catches fire, or when we notice unseasonal rains destroying local crops, we don't just post about it. We organize.
How We Campaign
- Market Interventions: We regularly visit local markets to engage with both vendors and shoppers. We provide paper bags as immediate, low-cost alternatives to single-use polythene, proving to shopkeepers that their customers are ready to shift to sustainable habits.
- Community Advocacy: We amplify voices for climate action. Whether it is supporting the call for protecting Ladakh’s ecology or demanding accountability for local landfill management, we gather our community to create noise where it matters most.
- School Outreach: We work with local schools to rethink celebrations. By moving away from balloon-heavy decorations and toward cloth buntings and paper art, we are teaching the next generation that festival joy does not need to come at the cost of the planet.
Why Your Voice Matters
Change happens when enough people refuse to look away. We have seen shopkeepers who previously laughed at our paper bags now ask us when we are coming back with more. We have seen kids teach their parents about plastic bans. You do not need to be an expert to join our campaigns; you just need to be someone who cares about where your kachra (trash) goes.
If you want to move beyond Instagram reels and into real civic action, join us. Let’s make Gurugram a city where sustainability is not a choice, but a habit.
Similar work from other experts
Browse through Curated picks from other experts on mytribe
Community Action Drives for a Greener Gurgaon
Our Mission: Tackling Plastic Pollution
18
Environmental Advocacy & Sustainability Awareness Campaigns
27
Community Sustainability Workshops and Environmental Awareness
Join Our Community of Changemakers
12
Our Mission to Grow More Than Just Plants
More from Community Conservation Events by Zero Waste
More services by Zero Waste