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Sahar Mansoor

Sahar Mansoor is the founder and CEO of Bare Necessities, a zero- waste social enterprise. She is a circular-economy nerd, a voracious learner and a curious traveller. Sahar has obtained accredited degrees on environmental topics in India, the USA and England, becoming a University of Cambridge alumni. 

Her business offers zero-waste personal care, lifestyle, home care and educational products and services, including online sustainability courses called ‘Zero Waste in 30’ and ‘Sustainability in 30’. She has also volunteered in Guatemala, Jamaica and the Democratic Republic of Congo for humanitarian projects. Her time working at the World Health Organization in Geneva and SELCO Foundation, on implementing decentralized renewable energy projects in rural Karnataka, enabled her to build Bare Necessities from the ground up. Her work has been recognized by Google India, Al Jazeera, NDTV, Vogue, Elle, Femina, India Today, among others.
 
Sahar has a 500-gram jar of waste that she brings to the sustainability workshops she conducts, which is all the waste she has produced in the last five years. For more, visit https:// barenecessities.in/.