GCGC Foundation: Healthify Slums Campaign
If you’ve ever stood under a tin roof in May, you already know the problem we’re describing. Now imagine that roof isn’t over a warehouse or a workshop, it’s over a one-room home in a slum settlement, where a family sleeps, cooks, and lives all day, every day, through a Gujarat summer that can stretch five to six months.
That’s the problem the Healthify Slums campaign was built to solve. It’s an initiative run by the GCGC Foundation, a registered NGO based in Vadodara that works on practical, low-cost green-technology projects across Vadodara and, through its Bloom Foundation partnership, in Pune as well. Panache Green supports the initiative because it sits squarely inside what we care about: reducing heat where people actually live, not just where it’s profitable to sell paint.
The Problem: Heat With Nowhere to Go
A bare metal roof in direct summer sun can reach surface temperatures near 75–80°C. Almost none of that heat has anywhere to go in a small, low-ventilated room, so it just builds up indoors, reports on Indian slum housing during heatwaves have put indoor temperatures as high as 50°C. Over 70% of slum households in India have no electricity or only limited access, so running a fan through the night usually isn’t an option. The result isn’t just discomfort; health workers and researchers have documented real consequences, heat rash, dehydration, disrupted sleep, and worse for young children and the elderly, who are least able to cope with sustained heat stress.
The Solution: A Reflective Coating on the Roof
The fix Healthify Slums pilots is a solar-reflective, IR-reflective, coating applied directly to the metal roof, which reflects away the infrared component of sunlight before it turns into stored heat. In the pilot rollout in the Channi area of Vadodara, the coating brought roof surface temperatures down by roughly 20–30°C compared to an untreated sheet, a meaningfully cooler home without adding a single appliance or a single rupee to anyone’s electricity bill.
Who the Campaign Serves
The beneficiaries are low-income families across tropical and sub-tropical regions where summer temperatures climb dangerously high and households simply don’t have the resources to protect themselves from a superheated roof. Around 95% of slum housing uses low-clearance metal roofing, the cheapest durable option for all seasons, which routinely hits 80°C on the surface and turns the home underneath into a furnace. In cities like Vadodara, that isn’t a two-week heatwave, it’s a five- to six-month reality every year. With over 70% of slum households lacking reliable electricity for a fan or exhaust, treating the roof itself is often the only realistic intervention.
Why Panache Green Is Involved
It’s a small example of a bigger idea Panache Green keeps coming back to: cooling a building doesn’t have to mean cooling it with more energy. Sometimes it just means reflecting the sun’s heat before it ever gets in.
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Want to support or learn more about the Healthify Slums campaign? Get in touch with our team, or reach out directly to the GCGC Foundation.
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I really appreciate Neetu ma’am and the panache Team for giving us a perfect solution to the heat related problems we experienced.
Before the application of cool tops, the temperature level on the store was 52 ° C, but after the application of Cool tops there seemed a reduction in surface temperature by 4 ° C, the temperature in the area where I sit was 40 °C which has reduced to 37 °C, there is a substantial difference in the ambient temperature, Since last 4-5 months I’m not reducing the temperature of my AC below 28 , Even at 28 I couldn’t keep it for long as the room becomes cooler so I keep for few minutes and turn it off . I really appreciate Neetu ma’am and the panache Team for giving us a perfect solution to the heat related problems we experienced.
The result after applying cool tops from panache is you can see the smiling faces of our team after applying the coating system from panache .
This was an old shed so we had a direct roofing installed, no Insulation. We were very much clear after the discussion with Panache team that we should go for cool Tops coating instead insulation so the result is you can see the smiling faces of our team after applying the coating system from panache #GoGreenwithCoolTops
We took the temperature measurement of outside and inside premises. We noticed a good amount like you can say minimum 6 to 8 Deg C temperature difference.
Looking at the Indian climatic condition during summers, where the temperatures were going too high and whenever it goes up to the peak level, the temperature in the factory shop floor rises affecting the efficiency of the workers. We had a thought in our mind that is there any way to control the temperature, then we came across the Panache company and got in touch with them, after explaining them our problem they came to visit our factory. The team is very committed and technically competent to give us the exact solution for the temperature reduction at the factory. We noticed minimum 6 to 8 °C temperature difference. Thereafter, we received positive feedback from the workers so we decided to go ahead with another project in our office premises. As far as execution is concerned, Panache are experts in this domain. They even contacted us after completion of our installation and ensured that we were satisfied with the workmanship. If someone really wishes to reduce temperature in their premises, I would highly recommend Cool Tops coating from panache – I wish them best of luck for their future projects!
Their prices and services are definitely worth the solution given & treatment done with complete transparency.
I have hired Panache services for the waterproofing & Cooling Treatment on one of the roofs of Parul University premises. Their prices and services are definitely worth the solution given & treatment done with complete transparency. I can definitely recommend them to organizations & people looking for thermal comfort along with waterproofing solutions also.
Totally satisfied by the service received.
I am very impressed by their work on how they provide customized solutions for every problem we have & every task they take up.
The Indoor Temperature has decreased to almost 5 °C. Cool Tops provides Cool Buildings without ACs.
In one of our projects, we had a requirement where AC was not viable and people working under that premises were very much disturbed. To solve that problem, we have consulted Panache for the solution. Panache has provided the full proof solution and after the completion of the Cool Tops Installation, we were much relieved. The indoor temperature has decreased to almost 5 degrees. I could say Cool Tops provide Cool buildings without AC.
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We have met the Panache Team from one of our friend’s references who have already taken the services. I must say, they are very professional in what they do. I really appreciate their efforts for perfection & sound knowledge of the technology.
