Since the inception of the Organization, Patheya is working in the field of environment by creating healthy and pollution free surrounding through collection, segregation, purification and recycling of solid wastes arise from households, offices and streets.
PATHEYA has also contributed to the community by converting waste into wealth. Patheya works on Collection of solid waste, conversion to Vermi compost and dry waste modifications into useful Products through plastic weaving and handmade paper makings and making of other decorative Products. Thus the Organization is helping community to live in a pollution free environment.
Patheya has designed an Appropriate waste management system for sustainable decentralized Solid Waste Management in PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP mode. This project has been running from 2002 initially with the financial support from Indian Environment Society a Nodal agency of Ministry of Forest and Environment.
In 2005, Department of Municipal Corporation, Faridabad, Haryana has given the task of collection of solid Waste from residential sectors of Faridabad to Patheya for Constructions of dumping pits to collection, segregation and composting of biodegradable wastes. Later on the organization has extended their area of operations in solid waste management in Delhi and Haryana with the support from Gandhi Darshan Samittee Rajghat, Delhi Cantonment Board, Station Head Quarters (Ministry of Defense) and Municipal Corporation of Delhi.
Under the supervision of Kasturba Gandhi Awasiya Balika Vidyalaya, Patheya has organized a number of awareness programmes. Keeping in mind the Universalization of Elementary education for 6- 14 age group; a fundamental right to the every citizens under constitutional right, a residential school is established for Girls in West Champaram, Bihar 2007. All the financial support s received from Ministry of Human Resource. This year 100 number of students has got admission for different Classes. Basically it is a bridge course centre where girls who never enrolled in a school and also for those who dropped out from formal school due to various reasons. It’s a condense course and once they complete this course successfully they are going to mainstream in the formal school. Within the hostel they are provided food, uniform, health care facilities, stipend, other recreational facilities and also vocational training for skill up gradation. Mainly ladies teachers deployed for this residential school with requisite qualification as per approved norms. In West Champaram majority of population belong to schedule tribes and socioeconomic condition of population is very poor. Due to extreme poverty and illiteracy people are still very much backward. In fact socio cultural barriers mostly affected girl population. They are not allowing for education, getting marriage at very early age i.e.6 to 15 years. As soon as PATHEYA started the school for girls now people are becoming aware and they send their girls for education. School comprises of 10th standards starting from class I to class X similar to formal school.
Since the beginning of its incorporation, Patheya has been taking initiatives to provide a clean environment to the society. Over the past years we have realized that the vision of clean environment could be possible when its initiatives are started from societal premises; like households, hospitals, office premises, etc. And under this supervision, Patheya has been taking initiatives to provide conservancy services and sanitation services various organizational and societal groups.