Expeditions for Cause: Journey So Far 

Thanks for your unconditional support!!

Expeditions For Cause, an initiative of One Consciousness Society Foundation, is a small and humble beginning that has turned out to be a mass awareness program. It has been more than 7 years now that this organization has started working on various awareness campaigns on different subjects like : Swachh Bharat , Swachh Ganga , Project Theli , Expeditions “Pankh” for underprivileged kids and many more projects for humanity. It was a very eventful journey so far and EFC thanks to all for overwhelming response & feedback. Our awareness program has reached the masses and eventually we have learned a lot about the difficulties they are facing. We are implementing the learning of journey in upcoming programs and awareness campaigns. 

EFC Campaigns ….

1.0 Humanity First  :

Expeditions for Cause has taken various projects under Humanity First initiative. These projects depend largely on emergencies, natural calamities and other priorities for humanity. Few of the major projects taken under Humanity First are as follows:

1. Nepal Earthquake
2. Kerala Floods
3. Kedarnath Floods
4. COVID crisis: At present we are working for the COVID situation in India. We are planning to create a small bank of oxygen concentrators specifically for home quarantine emergency situations. We are also planning to extend the services of this bank to remote villages of our country. We are also planning free of cost food distribution to COVID affected families.

How Can you help ?

1. You can donate oxygen concentrators with minimum specifications as under-

• Oxygen concentration: >90% @ 5 LPM

1. You can donate for food.

2.0  Swachh Bharat Awareness Campaign “फेंकिए मत”… सड़क पर  –   Educating the Educated!!

Expedition   “Do Not litter”..  on road or  फेंकिए मत   ….. सड़क पर is an  awareness campaign started with a objective of educating the educated.  EFC  started this campaign last year  from Gurgaon and till today this campaign has covered more than 36 cities with a  message and request Do not Litter on road.  This campaign is an ongoing process and will continue. During this campaign EFC distributes portable reusable dustbins to carry along or keep in our Cars.   It is very important that we stop throwing garbage on the road.  Littering on roads or cities is an extra burden to the government machinery. We have seen in many cities all efforts of government machinery are dedicated to clean and collect garbage.  Unfortunately we have converted our cities into a big dustbin. This awareness program will be done more aggressively throughout India. 

• Started in year 2010 and still ongoing process 
• 40 + cities covered so far 
• 1 Million Litter Bags / portable dustbins distributed 

How Can you help ?

1. Encourage your employee to keep car dustbin 
2. Corporate and their employee can participate as EFC Volunteers 
3. Donate Bags with your branding at one side (Cost of the bag ranges from 7rs to 25rs / bag )
4. Donate the expeditions at different cities (cost of 3 to 4 day expedition is rs1.25 lacs ) 
5. Donate dustbins for EFC program on different Tourism cites 
6. Donate dress for EFC volunteers with your logo (T shirts )

3.0 Swachh Ganga Expedition

Expedition “Do not litter”.. road to Ganga ( “फेंकिए मत”.. सड़क से गंगा तक ) is an awareness campaign along Ganga was successfully  executed in November  2014  between Devprayag and Rishikesh.  This awareness campaign  and cleaning process started from  Devprayag and concluded at Rishikesh,  a 80 KM of cleaning drive executed by hundreds of volunteers from Delhi, Gurgaon, Devprayag and Rishikesh. 

• Started in year 2014 and still ongoing process 
• 80 Km of Ganga cleaned , thrash handed over to zero waste 
• Continuous awareness campaign at various places 

How Can you help ?

1. Be a partner to the project 
2. Corporate and their employee can participate as EFC Volunteers 
3. Donate water proof trash bags for Devprayag / Rishikesh area (cost rs500 / bag)
4. Donate Bags with your branding for road activity (Cost of the bag ranges from 7rs to 25rs / bag )
5. Donate for the expeditions at different cities (cost of Rishikesh Ganga Expeditions – 3.5 lacs  // Allahabad to Varanasi Expedition –  12 Lacs ) 
6. Donate r dress for EFC volunteers with your logo (T shirts )

4.0  Expedition “Pankh” : Every Child Deserves a Chance 

 “Pankh” is an initiative from EFC for underprivileged kids.  Each child has his own dreams and wish to see them fulfilled in his life.  When these kids are from a society which is underprivileged then these dreams are lost in the struggle of basics. EFC  is trying to educate these kids through a series of outdoor experiential workshops with an objective to enhance the capacity of these children, their ability to think, ability to understand, ability to learn, ability to fulfill their own dreams.  This program happens every month and underprivileged kids from the different evening schools are taken out for the workshops.  EFC  has inaugurated a pilot project of setting up “Digital Playground “, a computer Labs for these kids. Finally these labs will be set up at remote locations where labs are most needed. EFC is also planning a request program called donate in Laptop for Labs. This program will be launched very soon under the “Pankh” initiative.

• Started in Oct 2015 and still ongoing process 
• 30 successful workshops has been done 
• 2000 + students touched 
• Regular feedback and Interaction classes 
• 20+ Industry and professional interactions for motivation and Inspirations
• Started pilot project “Digital PlayGround”  

How can you help?

1. Corporate and their employee can participate as EFC Volunteers 
2. Adopt a Pankh Kid for a year @ Rs 6000 / year of pankh activity 
3. Donate for Transport for a Year  @ Rs 1,20, 000 / Pankh Event for year 
4. Donate for food for a year @ Rs 1,08,000 / Pankh event for year
5. Donate for a  computer Lab @ donating old Laptops and logistics cost of Rs 60000 / lab 
6. Donate School Bags 
7. Donate School Uniforms 
8. Donate  dress for pankh activity every Month with your logo (T shirts )

5.0 Project Theli : (Project थैली) 

Project Theli is the logical end to use of polythene in our daily purchases and use. Inspired by Shri Rajen Parikh, EFC has taken up this project as a logical end to use of polythene bags in our daily lives. As we all experience that for our daily needs and random purchase from the bazaar we depend on polythene or “Plastic ki Theli” “ प्लास्टिक की थैली  ” . We take it as granted and assume that shopkeeper we provide this Theli.  Project थैली  is a systematic approach to remove this theli from our practice and daily lives. 

• Started in Dec 2015 and still ongoing process 
• 10000 +  bags being produced and distributed  
• Employment generated  
• 5000 + volunteers has taken a pledge in and around gurgaon for not using poly bags 
• Planning to produce 50000 bags by year end 

How Can you help ?

1. Encourage to avoid or minimize the use of polythene 
2. Donate your waste fabric : Do not throw your waste cloths / bed sheets / curtains 
3. Be our Volunteer and collect fabric .
4. Support the production bags @ rs 15 / bag (min quantity 10000 bags @ 1.5lacs ) 
5. Inspire others to say no to Plastics and use theli.

6.0 Expedition “Do not litter” @  International craft Mela Surajkund 2015 & 16 & My City Pledge 

EFC , Ministry of Tourism, Haryana , International craft Mela authority, Schools and Citizen volunteers came together  to run a mass awareness program called (“फेंकिए मत. … सड़क पर “ )  “Do not litter”.. on roads. This campaign was designed to deliver a message and request people not to litter on roads and cities.   The campaign was successfully executed and was appreciated by the general public visiting Mela this year.  Many volunteers and schools participated in the same.  This same awareness program will also be repeated in the future craft Mela’s. 

• Started in year 2015 and we participated in 2015 & 2016 Mela 
• Appoint by Govt of Haryana and Surajkund mela Authority 
• 1.5 million people visited this year 
• Observed cleanest mela this year 
• 4000 Pledge for my city my pride signed 
• 1 lakh plus people contacted 
• 1 lakh + litter bags distributed 

How can you help?

1. Donate Bags with your branding at one side (Cost of the bag ranges from 7rs to 25rs / bag )
2. Sponsor the expeditions logistics for 15 days (cost is rs 75,000 / mela  ) 
3. Sponsor dress for EFC volunteers with your logo (T shirts )
4. Support in IT expense of My City pledge @ rs 1.20 lacs (your logo will be on landing page ) 

7.0 Project Half Tap  :

A Citizen initiative to reduce daily usage of water to half by changing your habit and behavior. 

There are many other ways , Half Tap suggests you to choose your own way .. 

• By Changing usage pattern 
• By Using efficient plumbing system
• Using technology 
• Or you all are innovative, let it be a new way !! 

Half Tap is a citizen initiative to conserve water for future generations. A simple research has suggested that if you open only half a tap you save about 40% to 20% of precious water. If we assume that daily requirement of a person in a city is 100L, then we save 20L per day per person which means: 

1. 40 Million Litres per day in a city like Gurgaon. 
2. Figure goes  unbelievable 14,60,00,00,000 Ltr or14.6 billion Ltrs of water per year

• Started in Dec 2018 and still ongoing process 
• 10k +  reminder stickers distributed
• Many awareness campaigns 
• 10000 + volunteers has taken a pledge to follow simple steps

How Can you help ?

1. Encourage people to promote the simple concept. 
2. Print and Donate stickers . 
3. Be our Volunteer to promote the concept.
4. Inspire others by practicing the concept. 

Road ahead…

EFC has planned a series of awareness campaigns for the year ahead. Some of them are mentioned under :

• Swatch Ganga expedition 2 : Allahabad to Varanasi
• Awareness program “Do Not Litter” on the road for schools of Delhi NCR.
• Regular experiential outdoor programs “Pankh” every month
• Setting up “Digital Play Ground: a computer lab in remote schools under “Pankh”
• Pledge “My City My Pride”
• Adopting rural Govt School for Pankh Activities