Hello everyone! Hope your friday is fading away real fast into the weekend - and if it’s going slow, here are a few photographs from our surroundings in Dharamshala:
We wanted to catch you up on what has been going on at location.
We finally have a chartered accountant + company secretary on board, a big requirement for any registered nonprofit such as ours. Together, we have managed to get an 80G registration till 2025-26, which essentially means that anyone who gives to us saves taxes at the time of filing their returns! So, if you have an Indian bank account, here’s your chance to support local ⤵️
We’re covered till October end in terms of rentals + electricity beyond which comes the renewal of lease stage for which we will need to go to a place like this about five minutes driving from our office:
The complete rent for next year is anywhere between 44-49.5K INR (about 537 - 604 USD) depending on how early we can pay the landlord and how much at once, you get us? Landlords are happiest when they get the entire amount of money owed to them at the earliest possible occasion.
At long last, we have a colleague joining the Center on location at Dharamshala! Hari is an architecture graduate from NIT, Trichy and is currently pursuing her studies at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She’s going to help us with expanding our tracking efforts to the eastern Himalayas and on ground advocacy efforts in Dharamshala. Welcome Hari!
We’re also looking forward to welcoming two scholars specializing in environmental law at the Center! More on that in the upcoming newsletters.
We have now tracked more than 400 judicial orders since June 2021 and will soon expand our tracking to cover the eastern Himalayan states - starting with Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh (both bordering China and therefore extremely strategically important to India). If you want to join in, apply here!
And finally, we’re proud to announce that “The Dhauladhar” is now read across 13 countries and four continents! (North America, Asia, Africa & Europe)!
Well, this newsletter has been about these updates.
To tell y’all the truth, it is these editions (also this one) that actually form the core of why be began “The Dhauladhar”. Our aim has always been to communicate our journey as a non-profit working for and from the Himalayas in as unfiltered a manner as possible. That combination is not entirely common and sorely needed across this beautiful region. It is our hope that you’ll find these snippets engaging, wherever you may be in the world!
We’re going to leave you with a photograph taken right before sending out this newsletter:
Regards,
Himalayan Advocacy Center
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