The Environment and Development Working Group was initiated in 1998 by SCI branches in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh and later joined by KVT-Finland and SCI-Madrid during the ICM in 2001.
The EDWG has made some efforts to increase the awareness of environmental issues. SCI groups, activists and workcamp organisers have been encouraged to spread and circulate the environmental guidelines designed for volunteers.
EDWG in Asia is making efforts to promote an eco-friendly, equitable and sustainable lifestyle by:
- Identifying and collaborating with grass-roots organisations and groups promoting organic farm products
- Developing a network of friends who would help in development, production, sharing and sale of eco-friendly products and services in areas of food, clothing, shelter and health care
- Organising workcamps around this issue
- Making effort to develop a program for environment protection work in the coastal areas towards ecological rehabilitation and strengthening of environmental defense systems as a post-Tsunami initiative
