Dear All,
Lot of thoughts for several years are now coming into action; and we are formally registering a NGO and start functioning in this rainy season.
This idea is about start growing trees to cut the effect of pollution to some extent and this is what some meaningful we can do in this growing world, commitment of constraining the usage of vehicles/industries is limited to a small percentage of people, with the growing demand of industry products and urbanization we will fall short of our commitments to limit the pollution, now I think only way is to increase the oxygen in nature is by planting more trees, that’s the only way we can balance the pollution which we are causing directly/indirectly, it becomes our social responsibility too to contribute something to our mother earth.
We spoke to Forest department, Horticulture officers, Lawyer, other NGO persons regarding this they praised and offered support for this initiative.
Idea is we, LetsGrowTrees(LGT) members will start this work of planting trees in their native villages, team will validate the support we get in that village, once we get the +ve picture we will get all required permissions (from Forest Department, local Panchayat and locals), will form a team in the village headed by LGT member and other knowledgeable and responsible people in the village and hire a person to do the plantation and maintenance, preference will be given to a person who is already volunteering in these kind of activities. Hired person will get the salary monthly. Initially two wheel drum trolley and other equipments required for planting will be provided to him, using trolley it would become easy for the person to water the plants.
In the beginning we will start in one or two villages in different districts of Karnataka, depending on the fund availability we could increase this number in the coming years to different states also, we mainly need to get proper experience in the first two villages before we could expand greatly. Funding will be done by the LGT members initially and later we could collect from others.
This is smaller scale of work we are doing in a small scale and hence expense will be less, we need to prove ourselves in this work, for the first two to three years struggle will be there, later when organization grows by that time it will be systematic and we will be capable to handle issues comes across.
Do let us know if you have any concerns/queries/suggestions.
Please join us if you feel the idea is worth, registration of NGO is on the way need members and volunteers, hurry!!
Thanks,
LetsGrowTrees Enthusiasts/Members
