Aamchi

Description:

Aamchi is a community-led organization in India dedicated to addressing Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) issues in informal settlements. Aamchi employs a dual approach with both IoT-enabled rainwater harvesting technology, as well as waterless technology based on hydrothermal carbonization.

Founder: Anushka Shahdadpuri

Covalence Media:

We had the pleasure of speaking with Anushka Shahdadpuri, Founder of Aamchi, about her childhood in Mumbai, the importance of WASH, and her vision at Aamchi.

Listen to the podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/38uFOxCpY7nIVAWifftY1Z?go=1&sp_cid=bd7893125730a9a668aa4201b4e64b79&nd=1&dlsi=2de137d881dd449a

Anushka Shahdadpuri is the founder of Aamchi, a community-led organization in India dedicated to addressing Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) issues in informal settlements. She is the World Around-Meta Open Arts, Young Climate Prize Fellow 2022 and the WSA-UN Youth Ambassador 2023 for India. She grew up in a refugee colony in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, where the government failed to provide basic infrastructure, and developed ambitions to help others in similar situations access WASH services. Her project, Tanki, is a novel water distribution system, harnessing rainwater to bring one million liters of water a year to public toilets in the city, which has the potential to scale and provide access to clean running water for millions of people. This is particularly important for girls and women in India. She is currently a Masters Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.