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Campaigns

Every campaign is a story before it’s a statistic

Nearly two decades of fieldwork, distilled into the campaigns with enough documentation to tell properly - real problems, real people, and numbers we can trace back to a specific drive.

Badlaav
Awareness

2019 · Sarojini Market

Badlaav

29 street-theatre shows across Delhi's busiest markets, reaching over 70,000 people with a single message: refuse the plastic bag.

World Earth Day Clothbag Initiative
Awareness

April 2019 · Bilaspur

World Earth Day Clothbag Initiative

Nature Bodies' largest single documented campaign - a citywide push to put cloth bags into people's hands instead of plastic, timed to World Earth Day.

Great Global Cleanup Campaign
Cleanup

2019 · Marimai Mandir Pond & Naya Raipur

Great Global Cleanup Campaign

A 55-day pond rejuvenation and a 3-kilometre roadside cleanup that together pulled roughly a tonne of plastic waste out of Chhattisgarh's public spaces - and won Nature Bodies national recognition from Earth Day Network.

Sendh Lake & Shashtri Market Cleanups
Cleanup

2022 · Sendh Lake

Sendh Lake & Shashtri Market Cleanups

108 volunteers pulled over a tonne of waste from Sendh Lake in a single three-hour morning - part of more than ten cleanup drives Nature Bodies has run in five years.

Forest Fire Awareness Campaign
Awareness

2019 · Narharpur

Forest Fire Awareness Campaign

Nature Bodies' Nukkad Natak troupe took its forest-fire message directly into the villages bordering Narharpur's fire-prone forest range, reaching over 10,000 people.

Explore Green Treasure
Awareness

2020 · Digital campaign

Explore Green Treasure

When COVID-19 closed off in-person campaigning, Nature Bodies turned to the plants growing around every home - documenting the medicinal properties of 23 common species in a self-made video series.

Mission Simjung
Disaster Relief

Post-2015 · Simjung village

Mission Simjung

After the 2015 Nepal earthquake, Nature Bodies installed ten solar-powered UV water purifiers in Simjung village - clean water for a community that had lost almost everything else.

Seed Ball Initiative
Plantation

2019–2020 · Tarbahar Square to Agrasen Square & Marimai Temple Pond

Seed Ball Initiative

A simple clay-and-compost seed ball, rolled by hand and scattered along a 2.9km stretch of Bilaspur - over 2,000 of them across two years.

Student's Farm
Community

2020 · Pondhi village

Student's Farm

A one-acre organic farm run week by week by students during the COVID-19 disruption - brinjal, spinach, coriander, and cowpea, grown without chemical inputs.

Innovative Soak Pit
Water Conservation

2016–2018 · Bharat Mata School

Innovative Soak Pit

A student-designed, low-cost soak pit went from a school science exhibit to a statewide installation of 700+ units - and a world-record attempt of 60 pits in 60 minutes.

UNCCD COP-14 & Land Heroes
Recognition

2019 · India Expo Mart

UNCCD COP-14 & Land Heroes

Nature Bodies' land-restoration work earned a place at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification's 14th Conference of Parties - and recognition as a UNCCD Land Hero.

Vanmahotsava - Apna Paudha Apni Pehchan
Plantation

2021 · Chhattisgarh

Vanmahotsava - Apna Paudha Apni Pehchan

Nature Bodies' contribution to India's annual tree-planting festival, built around a simple idea: a tree someone plants themselves is a tree they'll actually look after.

Plantation

Ongoing · Chhattisgarh

Mission Bodhi 108

108 Peepal - sacred fig - saplings, planted with GPS coordinates recorded for each one, so accountability doesn't end when the planting does.

More moments

Recognitions and one-off events, in brief

Guinness World Record - Largest Canvas Painting

2017

Guinness World Record - Largest Canvas Painting

3,500 students, 6 hours, one mixed-media canvas - Biodiversity Haat, Ambikapur, on World Earth Day.

World Water Forum, Sweden

2017

World Water Forum, Sweden

Nature Bodies' soak pit work presented to the UN Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.

Green Haat, New Delhi

2017

Green Haat, New Delhi

A meeting point with UN foreign delegates on the sidelines of India's green marketplace event.

Wipro Earthian Award

2016

Wipro Earthian Award

Best-school recognition for water and biodiversity conservation work.

8th Regional 3R Forum Recognition

2018

8th Regional 3R Forum Recognition

Recognised for Nature Bodies Recycle Mart, a women's self-help-group livelihood initiative making cloth bags and poly-bag alternatives.

93.4 / 94.3 My FM Feature

2019

93.4 / 94.3 My FM Feature

A radio feature on Nature Bodies' work, hosted by RJ Disha.

Earth Hour

2019

Earth Hour

Public lights-off engagement events across Bilaspur and Raipur.

Earth Hour

2022

Earth Hour

A continued yearly commitment to WWF's global lights-off moment.

Friendship Day Campaign

2019

Friendship Day Campaign

Community engagement pairing environmental messaging with the Friendship Day public mood.

Hareli Festival

2019

Hareli Festival

Environmental messaging woven into Chhattisgarh's traditional harvest and agriculture festival.