KEEN- Keeping the Environment Ecologically Natural

KEEN The waste management social organization that is determined to keeping the Himalayan mountain ranges free of recyclable waste through collection, segregation and recycling.

CLEAN (1995)- Careful Learning from the Environment and Nature. The organization was started in 1995 by Dick Wechter, a computer teacher from Wisconsin who hired three men privately and paid them to start cleaning up the mountain sides. Very soon they had a mountain of waste and then the question arose of how to dispose it. Itwas then they decided to segregate and sell the paper, plastics, bottles and metals to a 'kabari wala' or waste collector who, in turn, sold the segregated waste to recycling units within a radius of 160 miles. The CLEAN team collected waste from door to door, distributed newspapers and took up garden contracts to finance the organization.

KLEEN (2010)- Keeping Landour Ecologically Natural: CLEAN was registered as KLEEN and the organization got support from the Woodstock School not to mention residents living on the hill side. It was now time for KLEEN to start managing wet waste as well.

KEEN (2016)- The organization was re-registered because now there was public demand to start managing waste for the entire tourist town of Mussoorie that seems to be sinking under the weight of its own waste production. KEEN now has 16 workers, has just bought a new jeep and needs the funds to keep the good work going. It has just appointed a new board of 8 directors headed by Dana Crider who too is an ex teacher of Woodstock School, all of who work voluntarily. The organization has just bought it's first kitchen waste composter. At this moment of expansion, our main contributor, the Woodstock School, decided to cut down our contract sizeably leaving this board with the predicament of meeting expenses

We need to hire more  staff, pay salaries, pay for diesel and equipments, pay the installments of the jeep and basically need to be tided over for the next 2 months during which time we hope we would be able to garner regular funds from Swatcch Bharat Program (Clean India Program). 

We would be grateful if you could help us collect this amount that would actually tide us over the next 2 months in this moment of crisis.