Environment
In order to emulate best practices in sustainable development, which appreciate the relationship between humans and nature at all levels, Snow Leopard Adventures lays tremendous emphasis on running an environment-friendly operation. We are also proud of our Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. We promote minimum impact tourism and try to follow the rule of great outdoors “take only photographs – leave only footprints AND give something back to the local environment / community”.
CSR
Even while running a highly successful adventure operation, we are proud to state that Snow Leopard Adventures endeavors to fulfill its responsibilities to the society. Our CSR initiatives include the Ganga First Aid Centre, which was started over 14 years ago to provide basic health care to the villagers in the area. The fact that over 40,000 villagers have been treated at the Centre speaks volumes about its success.
Snow Leopard Adventures also supports a children’s home managed by Divya Prem Sewa mission, a non-government voluntary organization, working in the field of leprosy patients and their children since the last 10 years. At present the mission is giving free education and food & hostel facility to over 200 children of leprosy patients.
Snow Leopard Adventures helped set up the girls’ wing for this home, which presently houses 12 girls. The mission also runs a small workshop within the premises to help students learn vocational skills to ensure that they can be independent after they leave this school.
Primary School in Kathiya Village, near Rishikesh
Snow Leopard Adventures supports a children’s home managed by Divya Prem Sewa mission, a non-government voluntary organization, working in the field of leprosy patients and their children since the last 10 years. At present the mission is giving free education and food & hostel facility to over 200 children of leprosy patients.
Snow Leopard Adventures set up a girls’ wing named “Ganga Vatika Girls Hostel” in 2012. Though the present building houses only 12 girls, we have helped construct a new building, which will eventually house 45 girls. The girls are expected to join in June, 2015. The mission also runs a small workshop within the premises to help students learn vocational skills to ensure that they can be independent after they leave this school.
We have also adopted a primary school with about 50 students in Kathiya village close to our camp and have been supporting them with school furniture and stationery. We recently built toilets there as some parents were not sending their girl children to school due to lack of toilets.
