About Us
Rooted in Purpose. Driven by People.
At Bamboo House India, we believe a home goes beyond simple shelter—it represents emotion, togetherness, and belonging. Since 2006, we've been constructing sustainable homes in India by using bamboo, agricultural waste, and plastic waste to create cost-effective shelter solutions.
Our approach combines green innovation, sustainable construction, and grassroots community empowerment to transform lives at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
Our work is beyond web statistics—it tells stories behind bamboo forests, municipal dump yards, and agricultural houses made out of crop residue.
These are green & circular economy ideals translated into tangible action, care, purpose, and respect for the planet and for people—transforming discarded waste into livelihoods, and values into tangible action. Transforming discarded waste into livelihoods, and values into tangible action.
Our Mission & Vision
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To develop affordable, sustainable housing with renewable and environmentally friendly materials such as bamboo, agriculture waste and recycled plastic.
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To equip marginalized communities such as tribal artisans, rural communities, women self-help groups (SHGs), waste-pickers, sex workers, refugees, and other disadvantaged women with green and circular economy-based livelihood.
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To build market linkages and income-generating platforms for products created by vulnerable and underserved groups in the work of eco-crafts and green entrepreneurship.
Our Founders
Our journey began with a search for a bamboo sofa for home turned into a movement for the founders Aruna & Prashant?
They both quit their corporate careers with a fearless dream to make bamboo construction a force for green housing and social transformation. They submerged themselves in rural India, working with bamboo craftsmen and waste-pickers, learning how centuries-old traditions could be used to construct sustainable houses in India and create green livelihoods.
What started as an experiment in building homes with bamboo has turned into a national movement—innovating bamboo house architecture, recycled plastic homes, and circular economy-based housing solutions for people and the planet.
Whom We Work With
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Our strength lies in collaboration. We partner with Governments, SHGs, NGOs, governments, and CSR partners to replicate our models across India.
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Whether it's a tribal woman making bamboo panels or a corporate partner investing in plastic waste solution, every stakeholder is important to our ecosystem.
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Our partnership frameworks are very fluid and not fixed—spanning from CSR-led shelter initiatives, women-led skilling initiatives, and green-tourism infrastructure, to disaster-relief housing and research-led pilot projects.
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Whether you're a policymaker, social investor, academic institution, or grassroots innovator, we provide a platform to co-scale circular economy solutions that empower communities and heal the planet.
Our Impact
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Bamboo House India has built over 750 green structures till date.
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Diverted more than 50,000 tons of different forms of waste from landfills, and created thousands of jobs for underserved communities.
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Our green homes have been installed across urban, rural, and tribal areas in India.
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Our models have inspired action globally—from Kenya to the United States.
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Recycled Plastic Housing model Recognized by UNDP and the US Department of State (IVLP) to name a few.
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Our journey has been documented by more than 1,500 media outlets worldwide.
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Our work has been studied by leading institutions like Harvard, Cornell, and ISB, NITI Ayog, Swachh Bharat Mission.
Looking Ahead
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At Bamboo House India, we believe in scaling up in a sustainable manner—repeating our environmentally friendly housing and circular economy solutions in different regions via a decentralized local entrepreneurs network.
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Our immediate focus is on up-scaling women-led training footprint across the country, improving our bamboo and recycled plastic shelter solutions, and innovatively converting end-of-life materials into income-generating opportunities for the needy.
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If you share a vision of a world where sustainable living is within everyone's reach and every decision of ours plays a role in healing the planet, we invite you to join us. Discover our work, see the difference our projects make, or work together on a community-based sustainable project.
