River clean-ups
Every first Sunday, volunteers and our crew walk a stretch of the Beas with sacks and gloves. What we gather is sorted at our yard in Dhalpur and sent to be recycled.
Beas River Foundation· Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
Keep the Beas clean. Stand with the valley when it floods.
A river trust in Kullu since 2016: clean-ups every month, and relief when the water rises.
Our appeal
Flood relief for the Beas valley
₹7,25,000
raised of ₹15,00,000
48% of the goal 36 days left
Our mission
The Beas gives this valley its water, its apples and its living.
We began in 2016 as twelve neighbours who picked plastic off the banks below Kullu every Sunday. When the river rose in 2023 and took the footbridges, the homes on its banks and the road, those Sundays turned into a relief team. Today we clean forty kilometres of riverbank every month, keep dry rations ready before every monsoon, and help families on the banks rebuild what the water takes.
What we do
One river, three kinds of work: we keep it clean, we stand by the valley when it rises, and we help put back what it takes.
Flood relief
Dry rations, tarpaulins, blankets and drinking water kept ready in two stores before every monsoon, and taken to the families on the banks within two days of a flood.
Rebuilding
Footbridges, retaining walls and the floors of homes the water took, rebuilt with the village that uses them, so the children can cross to school again.
Our work in numbers
- of riverbank cleaned every month
- 40 km
- From Manali to Bhuntar, a stretch each Sunday.
- families given relief in 2023
- 1,860
- Dry rations, tarpaulins and blankets, within two days of the flood.
- tonnes of waste off the banks
- 312
- Sorted, and most of it recycled.
- footbridges rebuilt
- 9
- With the villages that use them, in deodar and steel rope.
The appeal
Flood relief for the Beas valley
Dry rations, tarpaulins and repairs for families on the banks before the next monsoon.
₹2,500 keeps a family in dry rations for a fortnight. ₹12,000 buys the steel rope for a footbridge. Every gift gets an 80G receipt.
Our appeal
₹7,25,000
raised of ₹15,00,000
48% of the goal 36 days left
Give
Give to the flood relief fund
Rations, tarpaulins and repairs for the families on the banks of the Beas. Every gift gets an 80G receipt.
From the river
News from the banks
The relief stores are full for winter
Rations, tarpaulins and blankets for 400 families, in Kullu and Bhuntar.
The Kasol footbridge is open again
Rebuilt in deodar and steel rope with the village.
Four tonnes off the banks in October
Our biggest month since we began.
Gallery
On the river
Transparency
Our papers, open to all
Our accounts are audited every year, and we publish what each appeal raised and spent.
Find us
Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
Contact
Write to us
We usually reply within a few hours. Message us on WhatsApp.