EnviroFound is an online, community-driven platform that connects lost and found items from schools in Mumbai with children in underserved communities across the city.
Our mission is to contribute to meaningful change through practical and actionable steps, focussing on addressing social needs and promoting environmental sustainability.
We achieve this through our accessible online inventory, which expands opportunity for greater community involvement and maximizes efficiency. By matching contributors’ unclaimed items with distributors who provide them to children in need, we ensure that resources are fully utilized by repurposing and redirecting them where they’re needed most.
Why Do We Exist?
To Highlight the Discrepancy
Huge quantities of everyday essentials are lost by school children in Mumbai.
A large part of these essentials, in usable condition, are never reunited with their owners.
They remain in the lost property enclaves of schools and are discarded periodically or dispensed randomly.
Many, many kids from underserved communities are in need of these essential items.
To Address the Discrepancy
Our online inventory serves as a central hub, connecting unused resources from various sources with those who need them across multiple communities.
Forgotten posessions turn into valuable resources.
A lost lunch box becomes a new meal...
A discarded uniform becomes a
symbol for hope...
A pair of sneakers enables a football game...
To Have Positive Environmental & Social Impact
When we salvage, distribute and give lost items a SecondLife, WE
By reducing the consumption and extraction of non-renewable raw materials in manufacturing processes.
For example, the primary raw material for plastic water bottles is a type of polymer known as polyethyleneterephthalate (PET). The base material for PET is derived from petrochemicals, specifically from refining crude oil (petroleum) which is a non-renewable fossil fuel.
By eliminating energy and water intensive manufacturing processes for new items;
By eliminating the air, water, soil and noise pollution that would result from manufacturing new items.
For example, burning of fossil fuels (gasoline and diesel) in transport vehicles, which would be needed to distribute new items can be avoided.
By diverting lost items from ending up in landfills or oceans where they would contribute to environmental pollution.
Instead, these items find a new purpose and avoid becoming part of the growing waste problem.
By encouraging a shift towards sustainable consumption patterns and responsible consumer behaviour.
This platform emphasizes the value of making the most out of existing resources rather than perpetually relying on the creation of new products.
By offering an opportunity to raise awareness among individuals, especially students, about the environmental impact of consumption and the importance of waste reduction.
This knowledge can lead to more informed and environmentally conscious decision-making in the future.
By contributing to the well-being of communities by supporting those in need.
Redistributing salvaged items to economically disadvantaged individuals becomes a tangible way to address social issues while promoting environmental responsibility.