Edible Routes Foundation (ERF), New Delhi India.

It’s June 2019. Already 6 months are gone in 2019. I can’t believe that I have not written a blog for last 6 months. It’s terrible guilty feeling I get as I know there are friends who are not connected via face book so not have got any updated about ECO-V or what’s happening around my personal life. The blame should go towards face book. I usually write every week on face book and post an update about my activities. I know it’s not a good excuse not to write a blog. Or well now it’s happened so can’t help. So I will try my best to write few blogs and update all our friends, supporters and well-wishers who were with us right from beginning. Well its 18th year of ECO-V.

Last time I wrote about introducing Nature kids to Delhi. When I wrote that blog,  Edible Routes Foundation (ERF) was very new. Then we launched ERF officially on the 17th of February. 

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So Edible Routes Foundation is the social wing of the company called, Edible Routes http://edibleroutes.com/ who are into organic farming. I got to know Kapil Mandawewala, the founder of Edible Routes in January 2017 soon after I started living in Delhi. With that connection Kapil invited me to initiate a foundation connected to ER as it was a dream of many team members of his company. I agreed and accepted the invitation and we all got together to form the foundation. 

The first meeting we had as a brain storming session in 2018 for establishing ERF

After doing all initial work for ERF, we had many meetings to build it up. 

So now we are 6 months old organization, fully functioning in Delhi and some other parts of India. We are a team of 7 and officially registered NGO. As the president of ERF, I am trying to link ERF with International organisations and programmes. I had an official tour in Melbourne, Australia in the month of April with the support of Journeys for climate Justice (www.jcj.org.au). During that tour I officially introduced ERF as Indian partner of JCJ. Now we have few projects running in India and we will be getting ready for a Yathra (a journey) very soon with collaboration of JCJ.

conducting waste management workshop representing ERF

Introducing ecobricks to Shri ram school in Vasanth Vihar, New Delhi. 

Well, I am happy in Delhi as I have an organisation to work with specially to introduce them new programmes, help to develop the foundation and of course I have my freedom to do the work I love and I used to do in Sri Lanka. Just because of that even though I miss Sri Lanka, I am enjoying the work in New Delhi. No matter where you are you can serve Mother Earth!