Dehradun/Dharamshala, June 13 -- This World Environment Day, young people across Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh proved that the future of environmental action is already here, and youth are leading it.

Through a series of clean-up drives, waste collection initiatives, and community outreach activities organised under the YUWA movement, hundreds of young volunteers came together to take responsibility for their local environments and inspire collective action towards better waste management practices.

For the past two years, YUWA has been consistently building youth leadership through initiatives like Green Gurukul and EcoLympics, creating spaces where young people can learn, organise, and take meaningful environmental action within th...