Vishal Himalaya Foundation

10/20/2025

Diwali wishes...

02/03/2025

FROM 2023-2025: UPATE ON VENTURE WITH CO-SOLVE:

Temporary housing is a great need in the sectors of Building Construction and of Infrastructure Development (utility, roads, bridges, etc.) because the laborers need housing only for temporary duration of the project. Even smaller and medium-size industrial sector employers do not want to invest in permanent housing colonies on their premises. They also prefer temporary housing solutions that are affordable.

Although Employers may hesitate to take on creating labor
housing, they are more open to consider support to build temporary child-care facility at their worksites, and how to help in bringing the right service agencies to carry out childcare, education, health related programs. Innovations in temporary structure design is greatly needed. The housing sector (professionals and the building products and services market) has had little experience (and uptake) of temporary living structures. The design of the temporary structures require attention to A) innovative building materials that are durable, transportable, affordable, and available in the market. B) Design of the structures that packs in functionality within the small foot-print living space, while being situated within the high-density shared space with other laborers who come from different cultural backgrounds, C) flexible and modular to be suitable for varied sites and uses.

Planned in 2025 are various prototypes - some for temporary child-centric structure, shelter units, common spaces, energy, water etc. They will be at suitable price points that various employers have expressed interest in.

To address the larger goal of workers’ well being, Aajeevika Bureau and SahKaryam Foundation/ Co-Solve partnered to open a children’s activity center, called Fulwadiin 2024. And has reached out to provide medical mobile services to laborers and their families (below).

06/10/2024

Enthusiasm has been generated since planting Chikku trees (shown) and other flora, as well as protecting the mobile unit from road noise and dust. Shown are photos of the pilot project in the Narol Community that we have sponsored. Transient workers are feeling ever more at home.

03/01/2024

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Vishal Himalaya Foundation executes multi-faceted projects in Development.

02/18/2024

GANESHNAGAR IN GUJARAT, INDIA, A THRIVING MIGRANT COMMUNITY FOR 10 YEARS WAS DEMOLISHED LAST WEEK WITHOUT NOTICE. The community, near Pirol Dumpsite in Narol, housed hundreds of families of poor migrants, who have been shunted from location to location. Many petitions were made to the municipality to provide basic services --- running water and sanitation. But nothing happened. Now it is demolished. Residents have no place to go. This is the reality facing many of India's poor

Vishal Himalaya Foundation executes multi-faceted projects in Development.

10/22/2023

THE TRANSIENT WORKERS' SHELTER IS NOW COMPLETE. Residents are moving in! The grant for the pilot project came from Vishal Himalaya Foundation. CO-SOLVE Collective and Aajeevika Bureau in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India collaborated on the construction. This collaborative venture should pave the way for more employers to emulate the idea to address the serious social problem that millions of transient workers face in India: safe, secure, affordable, and DIGNIFIED shelter.

www.co-solve.org and www.aajeevika.org

08/13/2023

06/14/2023

Fabrication for one portable shelter has come this far (photo below). However, all operations are now halted until the Gujarat cyclone makes landfall. Laborers have no choice but to shelter in and around their tents.
www.co-solve.org and www.aajeevika.org

04/28/2023

A recent grant from Vishal Himalaya Foundation has enabled CO-SOLVE Collective and Aajeevika Bureau in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India to move forward on a pilot project to demonstrate affordable, secure and difnified shelter for transient migrant workers. This collaborative venture should pave the way for more employers to emulate the idea to address the serious social problem that millions of migrant workers face in India.

The beginning of fabrication for one portable shelter is shown below.
www.co-solve.org and www.aajeevika.org